South Africa Trump Land Zen can move from aid to trade.

The South African Republic seems to be at an intersection in a waxing and breaking relationship with the United States last week, with the controversial decision of President Donald Trump.

Trump said that South Africa pursues “unfair and immoral practices” for the white minority African community, and in December 2023, the International Court (ICJ) is pursuing a massacre of Israel.

His movement was shocked throughout South Africa, and experts feared that they could continue to use this opportunity to end the priority approach to the US market through a special US-African trade program known as African growth and opportunities (AGOA). .

The two countries have generally have friendly relationships since the end of the white minority rules in 1994, when the anti -apar lertheate icon and the Nobel Peace winner Nelson Mandela were elected as the first black president of South Africa.

In 1948, it took 14 years to remove Mandela from the “Terrorist Surveillance List” in fighting the Racism system of Apa Lertheate, which was introduced by African rulers in South Africa in 1948.

Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa for several days after Trump’s inauguration last month A bill signed in the lawThe government allows you to confiscate the land without compensation in certain situations.

Trump’s response came last week When he threatens to cut future funds He was leading the country’s leadership of what he called “terrible things, terrible things.”

The US president actually condemned South Africa without the grounds for “landing land” and “doing much worse than that.”

He doubled in the face of the violent rebuttal of the South African government and signed a frozen aid last Friday.

This adds up to $ 44 million (£ 44 million). The amount of aid allocated in 2023 said that South Africa’s US Embassy in South Africa is funded by PEPFAR, a US program that corresponds to HIV’s global spreads. Not affectedAdd a warning that “not all pepfar activities are resumed.”

South Africa is one of the biggest beneficiaries of PEPFAR and accounts for about 17%of the HIV/AIDS program, where about 5.5 million people receive anti -retro virus.

In his administrative order, Trump also accused South Africa as “shocking ignorance of citizenship,” and accused the ICJ’s “aggressive position” against the United States and allies.

In addition to freezing, Trump suggested that refugees in the African community, the most white descendants of the early Netherlands and French settlers, will settle in the United States.

His position was in the hands of Afriforum, which wants to abolish the “racial law” such as positive behavior and black economic authority, and the conservative African lobby group, including solidarity.

Trump’s close torture Elon Musk’s view is the view of billionaire born in South Africa. He questioned X why Ramaphosa had a “racist ownership law”.

This is not the first time that South Africa’s land reform policy has led Trump’s IRE.

In 2018, during the first presidential position He has accused South African authorities a “large -scale murder of farmers.” At that time, the Secretary of State asked to investigate the government’s problems.

At that time, Trump’s remarks reacted, but Dr. Oscar Van Herden, a political analyst at Johannesburg University, told the BBC, “We did not take this radical action until the administrative order was signed.” .

With their relationship in jeopardy, the two countries evaluate the following movements.

Donald Mackay, CEO of Johannesburg, a trade consulting firm, Donald Mackay, CEO of XA Global Trade Advisors, said the United States was one of South Africa’s largest partner on the trade front, but not “the nearest trading partner.”

South Africa exports various minerals, including platinum, iron and manganese, to the United States.

It is also one of AGOA’s largest exporters who generated about $ 2.7 billion in sales of vehicles, jewelry and metals in 2023.

“Over the years, the relationship has become waxed and weak. It was never powerful because the white minority rules were over in South Africa, but at the same time, I also thought it was not worse than ever in the last few years. I told the BBC.

But he admitted that he had “worked” to stimulate the United States in recent years.

“These stimuli accumulate and under President Trump … This is considered an opportunity to place South Africa there.”

Dr. Van Heerden has made changes in epidemiology into “global shifts” and “new competition with the United States” such as China, India and Brazil.

Experts talked about the benefits of AGOA to be released later this year, but they agreed that the impact would not be as important as any fear.

AGOA was introduced in 2000 It also provides duty -free access to the United States for more than 1,800 products to sub -Saharan African countries.

Prime Minister McKay said it would be surprised if South Africa continued to benefit from this contract.

“My instinct is what Trump is angry with South Africa, which is now the easiest mechanism to use to punish South Africa.”

Dr. Van Heerden added that even if the contract has not been renewed or the South African Republic is excluded, the current benefits will suffer short -term losses, but will pop out in a few years.

He said Ramaboa’s government is choosing a diplomatic channel. The Trump administration, however, seemed to have a lack of interest in diplomacy.

This would not have been helpful by the response to Trump’s movement by response to Ronald La Mo Rola Blunt on Wednesday.

“Standing according to our principles sometimes has the result, but it remains firmly that this is important for the domination of the world and law.” Lamola told the Financial Times.

The South African Republic accused Israel for committing massacre of the Palestinians living in Gaza.

Meanwhile, Ramaphosa announced that he will dispatch a delegation around the world to clarify South Africa’s domestic and foreign policy as his capacity.

The South African Republic assumed that in December last year, the president of the G20, the cohort of the country, meets to discuss global economic and political issues.

But US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that he would not attend the G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting held in Johannesburg next week at Snake on South Africa.

“My task is to develop the national interests of the United States without wasting taxpayers’ money,” he said.

South Africa is a part of BRICS and is an alliance of major development countries including Brazil, Russia, India and China, challenging the political and economic power of wealthy countries in North America and Western Europe.

Mackay thinks it is difficult for South Africa and other countries to explore their relationships with the United States under the “unpredictable politicians in the world.”

But in South Africa, the European Union, one of the biggest trade partners, reaffirmed its support for this country.

Set the general political direction and priority of the European Council president, António Costa-EU. Posted on X on Monday He talked to Ramabosa by phone to emphasize “the promise of the EU to deepen his relationship with South Africa.”

If South Africa fails to attack, Van Heerden suggests that the government can “negotiate hard” and use minerals to the United States as “negotiation chips.”

But he expresses a warning. “South Africa should be very careful about how President Trump and Elon Musk have already played this chess game.”