Southern Africa President Cyril Ramaphos has moved to suffocate order with a new US administration because of the new Land Act, speaking Elon Musk.
Mr. Musk is a close advisor to US President Donald Trump, who has threatened to reduce all future financing on South Africa on Sunday for charges of taking away the country and “treating certain classes of people very bad.”
Technology billionaire born in South Africa joined criticism by asking X why Ramaphos is “open racist ownership law”.
The Ramaphos Office said that in the call of Mr. Male President “repeated the constitutional built -in values of respect for the reign, justice, honesty and equality of South Africa”.
Land ownership is a long disputed issue in South Africa with most of the private agricultural spaces owned by whites, 30 years after the end of the racist Apartheid system.
There were continuous calls to deal with the land reform and deal with the past injustices of racial segregation.
In his initial response to Trump, President of South Africa said his “government did not seize any land.”
On Sunday, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social: “I will cut off all future financing in South Africa until a complete investigation of this situation is completed!”
Later, it is in Brifing with journalists, that “South Africa’s leadership is doing some terrible things, terrible things.”
“So this is currently under investigation. We will decide, and until we discover what South Africa is doing – they take away the country and take away the country, and actually do things that may be far worse than that.”
The new law of South Africa allows expropriation without compensation only in circumstances when it is “righteous and righteous and in public interest.”
This includes if the property is not used and there is no intention to develop or make money from it or when it is a risk to humans.
Ownership of the country is a burning question in South Africa for more than a century. In 1913, the British colonial authorities adopted a legislation that was restricted by the property rights of the black majority of the country.
The Law on the Land Natives left the vast majority of the country under the supervision of a white minority and laid the foundation for forcibly removing the blacks into poor homeland and cities in the intervening decades until the end of Apartheid three decades ago.
Anger because of these forced removal enhanced the fight against the reign of the white minority.
In 1994, the leader of the African National Congress (ANC) Nelson Mandela became the first democratically elected president of the country after all South Africans were given the right to vote.
But until the recently passed law, the government could buy land from its current owners under the principle of “willing seller, a willing customer”, which some consider to have delayed the land reform procedure.
In 2017, government report He said that from the agricultural land that was in the hands of private individuals, 72% were white owned. According to the 2022 census White people make up 7.3% of the population.
However, some critics expressed the fear that the new Law on Land could have catastrophic consequences as in Zimbabwe, where the seizures destroyed the economy and scared investors.
