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Donald Trump vowed to stop all future help in the United States for South Africa because of his policies of land expropriation, which caused a fall in Randa.
The US president claimed that recent measures allowed the Government to unjustly take away property and accuse the South African authorities of acting very poorly with the “certain classes of people.”
He added, “I will interrupt all future financing in South Africa until a complete investigation of this situation is completed!”
Trump’s comments, to the truth of Social, encouraged a 1.6 percent drop in South African currency compared to the US dollar.
He later told reporters that the leadership of South Africa was engaged in “some terrible things, terrible things” and suggested, without giving evidence or details, that the situation is worse than only a seized country.
Last month, President Cyril Ramaphos signed a Law on Expropriation, which allows the land to be taken away without compensation only in the circumstances in which the government believes that it is “righteous and righteous and in public interest.”
The legislation is replaced by one from the era of Apartheid, during which thousands of not white families have been forcibly removed from their country for the benefit of the white minority.
For three decades, in a multaneous democracy, about a quarter of agricultural land is owned by the Black people of South Africa, representing 80 percent of the population. The government aims to transfer a third of the country to blacks by 2030. The “land” remains very explosive.
This was also a matter of testing for the coalition in 10 pages in the country. The Democratic Federation of Business, the traditional rival of the African national Congress of Ramaphos, said he was “strongly opposed” to the new law and said that he could challenge him in the courts.
The US allocated nearly $ 440 million to help in South Africa in 2023, last year for which the information was available. Trump’s administration stopped all the side of help 90 days and inserted the future of the main US international aid agency in doubt As his website became dark and dozens of employees were on leave.
Elon Musk, a close to Trump ally and head of the Government Efficiency Department, is originally from South Africa.
Other powerful Trump’s advisers had formative experiences in Apartheid in South Africa, including David Sacks, who was appointed by his cryptocurrencies of the Cara currency.
Peter Thiel, co-founder of billionaire Paypal and another Trump Acolyte, spent part of his childhood in Namibia and South Africa, who was intended for apartheids, where his father worked for a white minority government. Thiel is accused of supporting Apartheid, who violently conquered the black majority to support white economic and political power, which he denied.
Ramaphos told reporters in Davos last month that he “didn’t worry” about the relationship and that he and Trump talked after the US president was elected. South Africa is held this year by the G20 Presidency.
In his first term, Trump said his government would explore the claims of the wide killings of white farmers. The South African government rejected these allegations as unfounded.
Trump has previously targeting BRICS states, of which South Africa is a member, threatening them with 100 percent of tariffs if they move away from the US dollar as a spare currency.
