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US President Donald Trump said he would put all future funding to South Africa with the claim to confiscate the Earth and “treat certain classes of people very badly.”
In the last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed a bill that, under certain circumstances, permits the earth without compensation.Or
Land ownership has long been a controversial issue in South -Ffrica, as most agricultural areas are still owned by whites, 30 years after the end of the racist system of the Apartheid.
The government has been constantly prompted to deal with land reform and to treat the past injustices of racial segregation.
“South -frika is a constitutional democracy that is deeply rooted in the rule of law, justice and equality. Ramaphosa replied in a statement on Monday morning in XOr
Elon Musk, who was born in SouthAfrica and now Trump’s advisor, also joined the debate.
“Why are you openly racist ownership laws?” Mr Musk told Ramaphosa in an X noteOr
On Sunday, Trump wrote on the social media platform, Truth Social: “I will cut all future funding to South -Fricika until full examination of the situation has been completed!”
Later, during a briefing with journalists, he said that South -Fricika’s leadership was doing some terrible things, terrible things. “
“So this is currently being investigated. We define, and until we find out what South Furik is doing – they take the earth and confiscate the earth and actually do things that may be far worse.”
In his response to X, the Minister of International Relations of South -Fricika, he said he hoped Trump’s consultants would use this investigation period to deepen South -Frague politics as constitutional democracy. “
“Such insight provides a respectful and informed approach to our democratic commitments,” he added.
The South President said the government had not left any land confiscated.
In his reply, the South -Tafrican President stated that the new law is not a “means of confiscation, but a constitutionally authorized legal procedure that provides a fair and fair way to access public land in the manner led by the Constitution.
He said there was no other funding that South -Fricika received from the United States, except for the United States health initiative, saying “17% of South -Fricika’s HIV/AIDS program”.
In 2023, the United States has set up about $ 440 million (£ 358 million) for help to South Africa.
According to the South African government, the new law does not allow arbitrary seizures of the land, as it must first try to make an agreement with the owner.
President spokesman Vincent Magwenya said last month that the state “could not be expropriated the property for another purpose, except … in public interest”.
He says that the current system of “willing seller, willing buyer” has allowed white farmers to delay the land reform process.
However, some critics expressed fear that the law could have catastrophic consequences, such as Zimbabwe, where land seizures destroyed the economy and scared investors.
In 2018, Trump, during his first presidential office, Mike Pompeo, then the United States Secretary of State to study South Africa “agricultural attacks and expropriations and a large-scale murder of farmers.”
At that time, South -Fricika accused Trump after asking a spokesman for the division, saying that he was “mistakenly informed.”
