Johannesburg – The Executive Order of President Donald Trump The punishment of South Africa Friday has hit a raw nerve in the African nation. The order that is mainly aimed at land admissions is because Pretoria has had to deal with constant American criticism that it has operated against American interests, including the support of the Palestinians in the International Criminal Court and its warm relations with China, Russia and Iran.
The executive order of Friday stated partially: “In shocking neglect of its citizens, the Republic of South Africa recently adopted the expropriation law 13 of 2024 to enable the government of South Africa to be the agricultural ownership of the Ethnic minority grasp without compensation. “
“It is the policy of the United States that, as long as South Africa continues these unjust and immoral practices that harm our nation:
(a) The United States should not offer help or assistance to South Africa; And
(b) The United States promote the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees that escape from breed-based discrimination sponsored by the government, including racial discriminatory property construction. “
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President Donald Trump participates in a signing ceremony in the president of the President in Capitol, USA on January 20, 2025. (Melina Mara-Pool/Getty images)
Friday’s executive emphasis explicitly focused on the foreign policy of Pretoria: “South Africa has taken aggressive positions against the United States and its allies, including the accusation of Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the International Court of Justice, and and his relationships with Iran revived to develop commercial, military and nuclear schemes … The United States cannot support the government of the violations of the Government of Rights in its country or the undermining of the United States foreign policy, What the national security frequencies is for our nation, our allies, our African partners and our interests. “
On Saturday the South African Government replied: “It is a great concern that the fundamental starting point of this order lacks factual accuracy and does not recognize the in -depth and painful history of colonialism and apartheid,” “Chrispin Phiri, spokesperson for the international relationships of the country, posted on X .
Phiri added that “we are worried about what a campaign of wrong information and propaganda seems to be aimed at incorrectly displaying our big nation. It is disappointing to note that such stories seem to have found favor under decision -makers in the United States of America. “
Farmers inspect on November 1, 2024 showers in Philippolis, South Africa. (Paul Botes/AFP via Getty images)
Although it lost its majority in last year’s elections, the African National Congress (ANC) is still the most important party in the current government of National Unit of South Africa. The secretary -general of the party responded to the offer that white Afrikaner’s American citizens can become by placing a photo on X. It contains a black man by an open door and gesturing with both arms outside the door, which suggests that Afrikaners have to leave.
The government has demanded whites of all backgrounds, not only Afrikaners, still has around 70% of the Land of South Africa. The government is certain that the Expropriation Act will only be used to take land needed for public purposes – such as a new school – of people of a color when the owner refuses to sell, and even then there would be “honest and fair Compensation.
Emma Powell, the spokesperson for the international relations for the most important opposition party of South Africa, the Democratic Alliance, said Fox News Digital that “the DA has been opposed to the RAS-based policy for decades. This policy has benefited the political elite When the vast majority of South Africans stay away in poverty “.
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The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin are shown during the BRICS top on October 23, 2024. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AFP via Getty images)
She continued that the DA “will pursue legal action to protect ownership rights. It is now time for the ANC to re -evaluate both their national and foreign policy positions, which actively undermine our national interests.”
Powell told Fox News Digital about “a high-level delegation to Washington, DC, in the coming weeks to make contact with decision makers. The DA will continue to commit itself to protecting private property rights, promoting economic growth and strengthening of diplomatic ties with the US “
Afrikaners, descendants of predominantly Dutch settlers landed in South Africa in 1652, were the rulers of the country and are generally assumed that they have developed the apartheid system that separated whites and blacks, where blacks were treated as two-class citizens.
US and South African flags are shown in trade union buildings in Pretoria. (Stephane van Sakutin/AFP via Getty images)
In a statement on Saturday, Afriforum, a civil rights group that largely represents Afrikaners, “great appreciation” for the action of Trump, of which it said it was “a direct result of President Cyril Ramaphosa And the irresponsible actions and the policy of his government. “
The continued: “But the civil rights organization and its sister institutions in the Solidarity Movement continue to be committed to the future of Afrikaners at the southern point of Africa and that urgent solutions should therefore be found for the injustice committed by the South African government against Afrikaners Against Afrikaners against Afrikaners against Afrikaners and other cultural communities in the country.
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Leader Julius Malema of economic freedom Julius Malema greeted supporters in Pretoria, South Africa, on 2 February 2019. (Phill becomes AFP via images)
One of the more pronounced and extreme members of the government of National Unit, Julius Malemahead of the South African minority party Economic freedom fighters, said on X: “In the light of aggression by the US to South Africa, we should seriously consider strengthening ties with Russia, China and Nations that belong to (the International trading body) Brics to prevent unnecessary confrontations with maniacs such as Donald Trump. “
Malema was brought to court for hate crimes. In one case he sang the genocidal anti-apartheid battle “Kill the Boer, de Boer”, referring to the white descendants of Dutch settlers or “Boers” in South Africa.
