Trump freezes assistance in South Africa over the Land Expropriation Act – Nationally
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President Donald Trump Signed an executive command on Friday, formalized his announcement earlier this week that he would freeze help in South Africa for the law aimed at resolving some injustice of racist era Apartheid in South Africa – a law that the White House says to the discrimination of white country in the country of minority .
“As long as South Africa He continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks on innocent minority farmers, the United States will stop assistance and assistance in the country, “said the summary of the order in the White House. The White House said Trump will also announce a program for the relocation of white farmers from South Africa and their families as refugees.
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Trump responded to a new law in South Africa, which in some cases gives government powers to expropriate land from people. The White House said the law “apparently discriminates the ethnic minority of African.”
The Law on Expropriation was signed last month, South African President Cyril Ramaphos and allows the Government to take over the country in certain cases in which it is not used or where it would be in public interest if it is redistributed.
It aims to solve some injustice of the South African racist era Apartheid, when the blacks took away the land and were forced to live in areas that were designated for non-white.
Elon Musk, a close to Trump ally and head of Trump’s new Ministry of Vlad’s Efficiency, pointed out that the law in recent posts on social media and acting it as a threat to the white minority of South Africa.
The command also refers to the role of South Africa in the fisigning of the genocide charges against Israel before the International Court of Justice.
Stopping foreign help in South Africa comes in the middle of a wider break for most American foreign aid under Trump, because it seems to be moved to what it calls the foreign policy of “America’s first”.
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