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Johannesburg – The announcement of President Donald Trump to plan to cut all foreign aid to South Africa because he said he is “confiscating” land “and treating certain kinds of people very bad” in “a massive violation of human rights” has caused a strong strong reaction of The South African presidency and commentators.
“The South African government has not confiscated any land,” the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, replied in a statement, adding that “we hope to participate with the Trump administration about our agrarian reform policy and issues of bilateral interest. We are sure that it was Of that.
Last week, Ramaphosa signed a bill that allowed national, provincial and local authorities to expropriate land, take it, “for public purposes or in public interest”, and, the government declared “subject to a fair and equitable compensation that They are paid. ” However, the sources say that expropriation has not yet happened.
The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, center on the left, greets while passing through the Indonesian president Joko Widodo, left, Chinese president Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the right, during a family photo session against Osaka Castle At the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019. (Volume Ohsumi/AFP through Getty Images)
In its true social media platform, President Trump It extends in South Africa, publishing “is a bad situation that the radical media of the left do not want afternoon, Trump repeated his comments while talking to the press on Sunday night at the Andrews joint base in Maryland.
Pieter du Toit, assistant editor of South African Media Group News 24, published in X “The president of the United States, clearly advised by Elon Musk, really has no idea what he is talking about.”
Musk born in South Africa is trying to expand his Starlink Internet service to South Africa, but President Ramaphosa has told him that he must sell 30% of his company here to the so -called broad -based local black empowerment interests.
In response to the statement of the South African president, The musk retreated In X, asking Ramaphosa: “Why do you have openly racist property laws?”
The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, speaks with supporters during the Anc Siyanqoba concentration held at the FNB stadium on May 25, 2024 in Johannesburg. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
Analyst Frans Chronje told Fox News Digital that President Trump could refer to the continuous murder of farmers in South Africa when he published that certain kinds of people are being treated very badly.
“President Trump’s recent comments on Earth’s seizures in South Africa cannot divorce their previous comments on violent attacks aimed at the country’s farmers. The most prone times to be violently attacked in their homes that the case of the general population ”
Chronje said there may be agendas at stake behind President Trump’s statements.
“These seizures can also be applied to the property of US investors in South Africa. Chronje is an advisor to the Freedom Foundation for the United States Foundation. He often expressed the objective of the higher political figures in the country. To date However, there have been no massive seizures, partly because there were no legislative means to achieve such seizures. ”
Farmers inspect Show Sheep at the Filippolis Show in Filippolis, South Africa, on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Paul Botos/AFP through Getty Images)
Now, with the bill that has been promulgated, Chronje says that has changed.
“Comments on Property Rights in South Africa should be read against a broader and bipartisan concern of the United States in developments in South Africa. In 2024 the Law of Review of Bilateral Relations of the United States/South Africa was introduced (in Congress ) Amid the relations of the South African government with Iran, Russia and China threatened the national security interests of the United States. “
Chronje, who also advises corporations and government departments about economic and political career, continued. “Last week, the Government of South Africa, together with that of Cuba, Belize and four other countries supported the formation of the ‘Hague Group’ in an apparent movement to underpin the position of the International Criminal Court, in the middle of the passage through of the Congress of the Congress of the Control Law of the illegitimate Court that prescribes sanctions against any country that is seen that the Court uses to threaten the national security interests of the United States.
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The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and President Donald Trump. Trump has criticized the new land expropriation law of South Africa. (EVAN VUCCI/AP/RAJESH Jantilal/AFP through Getty Images)
The South Africa branch made the importance of US aid, stating “with the exception of Pepfar’s help (the US president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief), which constitutes 17% of the Hivaid program in South Africa , there is no other significant financing that is provided by the United States in South Africa. ” President George W. Bush Pepfar introduced in 2003.
Analyst Justice Malala, who also speaks in love, said that, under the Trump administration, “the United States will fly to South Africa in many ways.”
