US President Donald Trump seized the land and said he would reduce all future funds for South Africa on charges of being “treating certain people very badly.”
transmission, President Cyril Ramaposa has signed a bill that allows land attacks without compensation in a particular situation..
Land ownership has long been a controversial issue with most of the private farmland owned by white 30 years after the end of the racist system of a hurry in South Africa.
There was a continuous demand for the government to solve land reform and deal with racial discrimination in the past.
South Africa I responded to Trump with a post about X: “South Africa is a constitutional democracy deeply rooted in the rule of law, justice and equality. The South African government has not seized any land.”
He added that South Africa’s only funds from the United States are through the health initiative PEPFAR, representing 17%of South African HIV/AIDS programs.
According to the US government data, the United States allocated about $ 440 million (£ 350 million) to help South Africa in 2023.
Born and raised in South Africa, and the current Trump advisor Elon Musk also participated in the debate and said that the new law discriminated against whites.
“Why is there a racist ownership law publicly?” Mr. Muse told Ramabosa in X’s post..
On Sunday, Trump wrote about social media platform truth social.
He later said in a briefing with journalists, “leadership is doing terrible and terrible things.”
“So now, we are under investigation. We will show determination, and until we know what South Africa is doing -they are taking the ground to take the ground away, and they are probably doing things away. It’s worse than that.
The new law of South Africa allows for acceptance without compensation in the situation of “just, fair and public interests.”
This is included when the property is not used and does not intend to develop or make money or cause danger to people.
South Africa has long land ownership and turbulent history. In 1913, the bill was introduced to restrict the property of the state of the state.
The Aboriginal Land Law has left the majority of land to control the white minorities, and has laid the foundation for forcibly eliminating black people with poor hometowns and villages for decades until the end of the sick Lertheate.
So far, the government has been able to buy land from the current owner in accordance with the principle of “willing to sell, willingly buyer”, and some delayed the land reform process.
2017 Government Report 72%of the farmland in the hands of individuals said that it was white. According to a 2022 census, White people make up 7.3%of the population.
However, some critics expressed fear that the new land law could have a miserable result in Zimbabwe.
Gwede Mantashe, Minister of Mineral Resources, South Africa, said, “If they don’t give us money,” he said at a mining meeting that mines should withheld minerals.
South Africa exports various minerals, including platinum, iron and manganese, to the United States.
Afriforum, a group that focuses on protecting the rights and interests of the white African population in South Africa, wants to change the new law to ensure “protection of property rights.”
But it did not agree with Trump’s threat to cut funds, and punishment measures proposed to “high -ranking ANC Leaders”, not South Africa.
Led by Ramaphosa, ANC rules South Africa as part of a coalition government with nine small political parties.
Trump was also the president of South Africa during his first term.The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked the Secretary of State to study the country’s “farm seizures, acceptance and massive murder of farmers.”
At that time, South Africa accused Trump’s trying to sprinkle Satan, and the spokesman said he had “wrong information.”
