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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that South Africa pledged to stop “aid and support” on “human rights abuses”, including a Land Reform Act that It has been said that the white South Africans have been discriminated against.
The ruling also states that the United States, “African”, white South Africa, usually of the Dutch and Hugenot generation, and their families escaped from the “discrimination -based discrimination” by the government. As a plan to resettle it. It has come to the fore when Trump signed the executive order Suspending the United States Refugee Entry Program For 90 days in the office for 90 days.
In January, South Africa adopted the confiscation act to deal with the inheritance of the nation’s colorful era of disparity of land ownership by allowing the government to occupy the property in the public interest. In some cases, it allows the state to take land without any compensation, such as the property has been abandoned or in an unusual condition was a system of ethnic separation under a white government.
According to the country’s 2017 Audit, white landlords, which are 8 % of the population, owns three South African fields, while Black South Africa, which owns 80 % of the population, owns 4 %. , According to the country’s 2017 land audit.
The move was criticized by Trump and his South African billionaire adviser Elon Musk.
“South Africa is seizing the land, and treating some sections of people very badly,” Trump Social Social on Trump on February 2. “In addition, I will eliminate all future funds to South Africa until a thorough investigation into this situation is complete!”
The next day, South Africa’s President Serial Ramfosa Appeared to answer On X, Musk’s social media platform:
He wrote, “The South African government has not seized any land.” “Like South Africa, like the United States and other countries, there are always conflicts that balance the need for public use of land and the protection of property owners’ rights.”
Kasturi responded directly From Ramphosa, asking: “Why do you have the rules of openly racist property?”
Friday’s executive order claims that “the South African government discriminates against ethnic minority Africans” by “” confiscating “their property without any compensation.
The order also accused South Africa of accusing the United States of taking “aggressive positions” against the United States and its allies after an attack by Hamas militants on October 7, 2023. –
“South Africa accused Israel of genocide in the International Court of Justice, not Hamas, not Hamas,” it says.
The order instructs all executive departments and agencies to stop foreign aid or assistance “to the maximum extent by law”.
According to Reuters, the United States promised about $ 440 million to assist South Africa in 2023.
In addition to aid, which supports 17 % of South Africa’s HIV/AIDS program, “there is no other fund from South Africa from the United States.”
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Savipana Venogopal Ramswamy is a White House representative for the USA today. You can follow it on X @Swapnavenugopal
