President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, freezing support for South Africa earlier this week for laws aimed at dealing with some mistakes from the South African racist apartheid era He officially signed his announcement that he would do so. The country's white minority.
“As long as South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allows violent attacks against innocent and unfavourable minority farmers, the US will halt the state's aid and support,” the White House orders. It was stated in a summary of
The White House said Trump will announce a program to reset white South African farmers and their families as refugees.
Trump is in response to new South African laws, with some examples giving government powers to expropriate land from people.
The White House said the law “blatantly discriminates against minority Africans.”
The expropriation law was signed last month by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to allow the government to acquire land in certain instances that are not in use, or in places in public interest if it is redistributed. I will.
It aims to address some of the mistakes of South Africa's racist apartheid era when black people are forced to take their land from them and live in areas designated as non-whites.
Trump's close ally and Trump's new government efficiency director Elon Musk highlighted the law in a recent social media post, casting it as a threat to white minorities in South Africa.
The order references South Africa's role in bringing genocide accusations against Israel before the International Court of Justice.
The suspension of foreign aid to South Africa is amid a wider suspension for most US overseas aid under Trump as he is about to move towards what he calls “America-first” foreign policy. It happens in.
