South Africa’s President Serial Ramfosa February 6 provided his 2025 State of the National Address in Cape Town, South Africa.ESA Alexander/Reuters
President Donald Trump signs an executive order to reduce US financial aid to South Africa, with the White House on Friday with its land policy and its genocide in the International Court of Justice against Washington’s ally, Israel. Referring to the denial.
Recent data from the US government shows that the United States allocated about $ 440 million in aid to South Africa in 2023.
The South African Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the executive order “lacks the accuracy of the facts and failed to recognize the deep and traumatic history of South Africa’s colonies and colorful.”
The White House said Washington will also plan to resettle South African farmers and their families as refugees.
It states that US officials will take steps to prioritize humanitarian aid, including admission and resettlement through the United States Refugee Interior Program for Africans in South Africa, including early Dutch and French settlers Most are white children.
The South African Foreign Ministry said: “It is ironic that the executive order manages the status of refugees for a South African group in the United States that is one of the most economically privileged people, while the world Here are the weak people in the United States from other parts.
Trump has said without citing evidence that South Africa is seizing the land and “is treated very badly with some sections of people.”
Born in South Africa, billionaire Elon Musk, who is close to Trump, has said that South Africa has been suffering from “racist property laws”.
South African President Serial Ramfosa, who signed the law last month, aims to make the state easier to occupy the land in the public interest, defended the policy and said that the government seized any land. Has not He said the purpose of this policy was to eliminate ethnic disparity in land ownership in the black -majority nation in Syria.
Ramfosa has also said that South Africa will not be “bullying.” Washington has also complained about the case brought by South Africa in the International Court of Justice, where it has accused Israel of genocide of its military action in Gaza, which has killed tens of thousands of people. And humanity has led to the crisis. Israel has denied the allegations, saying it worked in defense after the attack by the deadly Palestinian Hamas militants on October 7, 2023.
The White House presented the issue as an example of South Africa, which holds positions against Washington and its allies. The order also mentions South Africa’s relations with Washington’s Middle East rival Iran.
South Africa’s British Imperial masters gave the whites mostly to the fields. In 1950, the African National Party passed a law in which 85 % of the territory was taken for itself and 300,000 black people were kicked in their hometowns.
In the 30 years in the coming 30 years of the African National Congress, some ground rehabilitation has been under a “consent buyer, consent seller” model, but white landowners still own three -quarters of South Africa’s free hold form. – This black people’s ownership conflicts 4 %.
The white solidarity movement mainly expressed regret over Trump’s confession to acknowledge Trump’s “injustice” against Africans, and expressed regret over the return of aid.
“We did not demand sanctions against South Africa, nor did they say that they would cut funds for the weak by the US government,” Philip Bisus said, in which the order is a part.
“We believe that ordinary South Africans should not bear the cost of diplomatic disputes and ANC policies.”
Kali Karel, the CEO of Afforam, said that if the Africans became refugees in the United States, their cultural identity would be eliminated, they would not take a danger.
“We are indigenous from this country and we are not going anywhere,” he said.
