Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land confiscations | Trump administration
US President Donald Trump South Africa confirmed “the confiscation of the land and” the treatment of some groups of people very badly “because it declared that it was cutting all future funding for the country pending the investigation.
The issue of lands in South Africa A long time agoWith efforts to correct inequality in the white base that draws criticism from conservatives including Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, who was born in South Africa and a strong Trump advisor.
Last month, the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramavusa, signed a draft law stipulating the government, in certain circumstances, to provide “compensation for nothing” for the property that decides to confiscate in the public interest.
“South Africa is the confiscation of the Earth, and certain groups of people are treated very badly,” Trump wrote on the social truth platform on Sunday.
“I will cut all the future funding for South Africa until the full investigation of this situation is completed!” Trump wrote.
Pretoria argues that the draft law does not allow the government to disburse property in an arbitrary way and must first seek to reach an agreement with the owner.
However, some groups are afraid of a situation similar to the Zimbabwe government of the commercial farmer owned by white, often without compensation, after independence in 1980.
Later, at a press conference with journalists, Trump said, “The South African leadership is doing some terrible things and terrible things” without giving examples.
“So this is under investigation now. We will design, and until the time we discover what South Africa is doing – they take away the land and land sources, and they do things that may be much worse than that.”
Land ownership is a controversial issue in South Africa, as most agricultural lands are still owned by white persons after three decades from the end of the apartheid.
Since then, the land courts have been separated on a handful of land disputes, and after comprehensive operations, the land has returned to the formerly displaced owners.
According to the South African government, the original land law of 1913 thousands of black families that were removed by their lands by the apartheid system.
It was the sensitive issue A certain gathering point for the rightWith many conservative personalities, including musk and right -wing journalist Katie Hopkins, who defended the issue of white land owners.
Musk was born in Pretoria on June 28, 1971, to a father of a Canadian engineer and mother, leaving the country in the late teenager. The official policy of the apartheid continued until 1990, and multi -ethnic elections were held in 1994.
Trump himself has surrounded the strong Silicon Valley characters that have reached the high age of South Africa, such as David Sachs, for him The newly appointed artificial intelligence and CZAR CZARWho participated in the establishment of PayPal along with musk.
Billionaire Peter Thy-another founder in Paypal, who presented Trump to his vice president, JD Vance- also lived in South Africa, including at the time in Pretoria.
He previously accused him of supporting the apartheid system, which was violently subjected to the black majority of South Africa to support white rule and economic control, which was denied by his spokesman on his behalf.
