President Donald Trump has confiscated land, reducing all future funds in South Africa over claims saying “people in a specific class are very bad.”
Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a bill to allow land seizure without compensation in certain situations.
Land ownership has been a problem in South Africa for a long time, 30 years after the end of the apartheid racist system, in most private farmland owned by whites.
There was a continuous demand for the government to deal with land reform and deal with past fraud in racism.
South Africa’s president responded to Trump with X’s post, saying, “South Africa is a constitutional democracy that is dominated by law, justice, and equally. The South African government has not confiscated land.”
He added that the only fund received from South Africa from the United States was due to the Health Initiative Pepfar, which represents the “17 % of the” HIV/AIDS program in South Africa “.
According to US government data, the United States allocated about $ 440 million in 2023 to support South Africa.
Born and raised in South Africa, and now Trump’s adviser, Elon Musk, has joined the debate, saying that a new law discriminated white.
“Why do you have a racist and racist?” Musk told Ramafosa in X’s post.
On Sunday, Trump wrote: TRUTH SOCIAL, a social media platform,:
He later said in a briefing with journalists, “Leadership is doing some terrible and terrible things in South Africa.”
“So we are investigating now. We make a decision. Until we know what South Africa is doing, they are robbing land and confiscating land. It is worse.”
South Africa’s new law allows deployments without compensation only in situations where they are “fair, fair and public interests.”
This includes cases where the property is not used, there is no intention of developing or making money, or when people are at risk.
Land ownership has been a problem in South Africa for more than a century for over a century. In 1913, British colonial authorities passed laws to limit the majority of blacks in blacks.
The Land Law of the indigenous residents has left the majority of land under the dominance of the minority of whites, and forced blacks to poor hometowns and towns for several decades until the end of apartheid 30 years ago. Was set.
The anger over these forced removal has strengthened the battle with the rules of white thinness.
In 1994, the leaders of the African National Council (ANC) Nelson Mandela became the first democratic president in Japan after all South Africans were given voting rights.
However, until the recently passed law, the government feels that it is delaying the land reform process, and under the principle of “ambitious seller, ambitious buyer”, the current owner purchase land from the current owner. I have done it.
According to a government report in 2017, 72 % of the farmland in the personal hands were owned by white people. According to the 2022 census, whites account for 7.3 % of the population.
However, some critics have expressed the fear that new land laws could cause miserable results, like Zimbabwe, which caused the economy to destroy the economy and scared of investors.
South Africa Minister Gwade Mantache responded to Trump’s comments by telling the mineral meeting that if they (us) do not give us money, the government should refrain from mining. 。
South Africa exports a variety of minerals, including platinum, iron, and manganese to the United States.
AFRIFORUM, a group that focuses on protecting the rights and interests of the South African African population, wants the government to change new laws to “secure property rights.”
However, it states that he does not agree to the Trump’s threat of reducing funds, suggesting that punishment should be directed to the “advanced ANC leader,” not South Africans.
Ramaphosa, led by Ramaphosa, is currently rule South Africa as part of the Allied government with nine small political parties.
Trump also asked the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to study the country’s “consolidation and expenses, and a large -scale killing of farmers” during his first term as the US President. Ta.
At that time, South Africa accused Trump of trying to divide, and spokesman said he was “incorrect information.”
