Johannesburg – The announcement of President Donald Trump that he is planning to close all foreign help to South Africa because he claimed that the “country” takes up and treats certain classes of people very badly “in” a huge human rights violation ” The South African presidency and commentators.
“The South African government has not seized a country,” the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded in a statement and added: “We look forward to communicating with the Trump government about our policy of land reform and Bilateral Interests.
Last week, Ramaphosa signed a bill that allowed the national, provincial and local authorities to expropriate the country -to take it -“for a public goal or in the public interest”, and, the government “subject to just and fair compensation that was paid “. However, sources say that no expropriation has happened yet.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Center on the left, waves while walking past Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the right, during a family motorcycle session for the Castle of Osaka on the G-20 At the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on 28 June 2019. (Tomohiro Ohsumi/AFP via Getty images)
On his truth social media platform, President Trump Touches in South Africa and places “It is a bad situation that the radical left media do not want to mention as a mention. A huge violation of human rights can be seen at least for everyone. The United States has won. , we will also act.
Pieter Du Toet, assistant editor of the South African media group News 24, posted on X “The American president, clearly advised by Elon Musk, really has no idea what he is talking about.”
South African born Musk tries to expand his Starlink internet service to South Africa, but President Ramaphosa reportedly told him that he should sell 30% of his company here to local wide so-called black empowerment interests.
In response to the explanation of the South African president, Musk shot back About X, in which Ramaphosa is asked: “Why do you open racist laws?”
The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to supporters during the ANC Siyanqoba Rally at FNB Stadium on 25 May 2024 in Johannesburg. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty images)
Analyst Frans Cronje told Fox News Digital that President Trump may refer to the constant murder of farmers in South Africa when he placed that certain classes are treated very badly.
“President Trump’s recent comments about the seizure of the country in South Africa cannot be separated from his earlier comments about violent attacks aimed at the farmers of the country. Although these comments have often been rejected as false, the last South suggests -suggests – African data that the commercial farmers of the country are more likely to be attacked violently in their homes than is the case for the general population. ”
Cronje said there can be agendas in the game behind President Trump’s statements.
“Such seizures can also apply to the ownership of American investors in South Africa. Cronje is a consultant at the US Yorktown Foundation for Freedom. He added” with regard to landing, the legislation may be possible for the mass seizure of land Making that one has been often pronounced objective of senior political figures in the country. To date, however, there have been no massive attacks, partly because there were no legislative means to reach such attacks. ”
Farmers inspect Show -sheep on the Philippolis show in Philippolis, South Africa, on November 1, 2024. (Photo by Paul Botes/AFP via Getty images)
Now that the bill has been signed in the law, Cronje says that that has changed.
“The comments about ownership rights in South Africa must be read against a broader and two -part American concern about developments in South Africa. In 2024 the Bilateral Relations Review Act of the US/South Africa was introduced (in the congress) in the midst of The relationships of the South African government with relationships with the South African government with Iran, Russia and China threatened the American national security interests. “
Cronje, who also advises companies and government services on economic and political process, continued. “Last week, the South African government, together with that of Cuba, Belize and four other countries, supported the formation of the ‘Hague Group’ in a clear step to strengthen the status of the International Criminal Court, in the midst of the passage by the Congress of the illegal Court Counteraction Act that prescribes sanctions against every country to threaten American national security interests.
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The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and President Donald Trump. Trump has criticized that the new expropriation legislation of South Africa. (Evan Vucci/AP/Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty images)
The Ramaphosa in South Africa played the importance of American aid and stated “with the exception of Pepfar (the emergency plan of the US President for AIDS Relief) Aid, which forms 17% of the HIVIDS program of South Africa, there is no other Important financing provided by the United States in South Africa. ” President George W. Bush Introduced Pepfar in 2003.
Analyst Justice Malala, also speaking on Enca, said that, under the Trump government, “the United States will increase South Africa in many ways.”
