Cape Town, South Africa (AP) – US President Donald Trump Thereafter Promise to punish South Africa By signing an executive order on Friday Stop all aid. The country on which it called human rights violations against a white minority group.
The Trump administration says a recent land -passing law that South Africa recently approved the “clear” discrimination against its white Africans, which is a descendant of Dutch and other European colonies. The Trump administration said the South African government is allowing violent attacks against the African farming communities.
South Africa’s soldiers head to the city hall of the street, Cape Town, where South African President Serial Ramfosa has provided its annual state union address on Thursday, February 6, 2025.
It also alleges South Africa of supporting the “bad actors” in the world, including the militant Palestinian group Hamas, Russia and Iran.
Earth distribution in South Africa has been a complex and extremely emotional problem with ethnic concepts for more than 30 years. The colorful system of white minority rule In 1994.
Trump and after that it was emphasized to shed light on a global scale Born in South Africa Elon Musk South Africa’s government policies criticized white, sometimes with false statements.
What law is Trump referring to?
The new conflict act gives the South African government the capacity to confiscate land from private parties, but only if it is in the public interest and in some terms. Trump cited it last Sunday when he first announced his intention to stop South Africa with financial support.
He said the South African government was doing “horrible things” and claimed that “some classes” were being seized. This is not true, and even in South Africa, groups that are challenging the law say no land has been confiscated. South Africa’s government They say that private property rights are reserved and that Trump’s law describes false information and “deterioration”.
However, this law has raised concerns from groups representing groups in South Africa, especially white minority, which says it will target them and their land even though in this law The race has not been mentioned.
South African President, Serial Ramphosa, Wright used a shuttle at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Wednesday, January 22, 2025, Switzerland, Davos. (AP Photo/Marcus Shreer)
This law has been linked to the legacy of the racist color system and before the colonies, and it has been part of South Africa’s efforts for decades that have been trying to find historical mistakes properly.
Under color, black people took away the ground from them and were forced to live in the designated areas for non -whites. Now, the whites make about 7 % of South Africa’s 62 million population, but owns about 70 % of private farming land, and the government says inequality needs to be removed.
Who are the Afrinkers?
Affirmative Gore is a group of South Africans who are primarily from Dutch settlers who arrived about 37 370 years ago. They speak to Africans, one of the 11 official languages in South Africa, and form many South African rural farming parties.
Afranses were the center of the colorful government, and tensions between some African groups and black political parties Has been delayed after colorbingAlthough South Africa has been able to reconcile with many of its ethnic groups, most Africans consider themselves part of the new South Africa.
Some examples of Africans who gain international fame include EFC Fighter Drakes Do Plessis, Golfers Arnie Alice and Louis Osthozin, and actor Charlez Therone.
According to his administration, Trump’s executive order has focused on serious human rights abuses in South Africa, and says the South African government has allowed violent attacks on African farmers and their families. – Trump said the United States would plan to resettle white South African farmers and their families as refugees.
How is Elon involved?
Tesla billionaire and Trump Allies Born in South Africa and was raised, but after the high school in the late 1980s, when South Africa was still in the colorful government.
He has for years criticized the current leadership in his homeland, accused him of white policies, and has ignored or encouraged “genocide” in the killing of some white farmers. The casualties are at the center of conservative observers’ claims – and now they have been promoted by Trump and Muskuri – that South Africa is allowing them to remove attacks on white farmers as a means of removing them.
The South African government has condemned the killings and says they are part of the country Rate of violent crime over severity Experts across the board say there is no evidence of genocide and that the killings make up a very small percentage of massacres. For example, a group in which the farm attacks were recorded states that 49 farmers or their families were killed in 2023, while more than 27,000 massacres took place in the country this year.
Musk has also accused South Africa of possessing “racist property rules” this week, which has a clear reference to its failure to obtain a license in the country for its starlink satellite internet service because it positive The standard of action does not meet.
What does Trump order?
Trump’s ruling stops hundreds of millions of dollars a year, which the United States gives South Africa, most of which help with his HIV/AIDS response. The United States gave South Africa about $ 440 million last year, and the AIDS Relief President provides 17 % of the HIV program of South Africa’s HIV program through an emergency plan.
Parts of this funding had already happened Threatening to freeze Trump’s global aidBut now all of this will be stopped by South Africa’s health sector in a major blow. There are about 8 million people living with HIV in South Africa – 5.5 million of them receiving anti -arterial medicines – and US funding is very important in supporting the world’s largest national HIV/AIDS program Is
South African President Searle Ramfosa spoke during a full meeting at the Congress Hall, during the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 21, 2025. (Michael Boholzer/Caston – AP)
The executive order also stated that South Africa had taken an anti-US stance-even the “leadership of the charge” was accused of supporting Hamas, Russia and Iran on many issues, And China’s ruling Communist Party is very close.
South Africa is Long -time supporters of Palestinians And an Israeli critic and he has maintained close ties with Russia because of helping to fight colorful. It seems that Trump’s order needs a significant change in South Africa’s foreign policy to allow aid to resume.
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