US President Pretoria violently accused “fueling” against the “mutilated landowners” racist ”
US President Donald Trump has issued an executive order directing government agencies to give priority to aid to white refugees to South Africa, including resettlement programs. This step was taken after the African nation issued a land confiscation law to address ethnic differences in land ownership.
In his publication on Friday, Trump accused Pretoria “Ignore a shocking of the rights of its citizens” He claimed that the newly adopted legislation allows the government to confiscate agricultural property of ethnic minorities without compensation.
African are the descendants of the European colonists, most of them from the Netherlands, who arrived in modern South Africa in the seventeenth century. In the wake of the contracts of the apartheid system, which was dismantled the most advanced economy in Africa in the 1990s, white farmers still have the majority of land in the country. Pretoria set a target to transfer 30 % of agricultural lands to black farmers by 2030 to address this inequality.
According to Trump’s order, the South African government policies were supposed to aim “The landowners are not exploited.”
The presidential decree orders the suspension of any assistance or assistance in South Africa as long “Unlike and immoral practices” Continue and demand the relevant departments and officials, including the Foreign Minister and Minister of Internal Security “Giving priority to humanitarian relief, including acceptance and resettlement through the refugee acceptance program in the United States, to Afrikan in South Africa.”
The document also criticizes Pretoria on the supposed Understanding the foreign policy of the United States ” Thus, a threat to the national security of Washington, its interests and allies. existing “Aggressive situations” South Africa includes accusing Israel’s genocide in the International Court of Justice and developing relations with Iran, including “Commercial, military and nuclear arrangements.”
The measures made by the executive order are to stay in place as long as South Africa continues “The practices that harm” The United States, the document said. Washington and Restoria recently clashed the land ownership law.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced earlier his decision to overcome a Group 20 meeting in South Africa later this month, accusing Pretoria. “Doing very bad things.” South Africa’s billionaire, Elon Musk, who has become a close Trump advisor, also described the legislation “racist.”
South African President Cyril Ramavusa responded by saying that his nation would do “Do not intimidate.” He also mentioned that the world was witnessing an upward “National and fever, the pursuit of narrow interests” But the United States did not mention its name.
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