President Trump introduced on Sunday that he would reduce off funding to South Africa till the nation investigates “certain classes of people” that he vaguely claimed had been being handled “very badly” with out citing proof.
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” Trump stated in a Fact Social put up.
“The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”
It’s unclear what led to his put up.
Final month forward of Trump’s inauguration, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa stated he wasn’t frightened about his nation’s relationship with the US underneath the incoming president. He famous that he and Trump had spoken following his Election Day win and stated he appeared ahead to working together with his administration.
However the forty seventh commander in chief took concern with South Africa throughout his first time period for related causes. He tried to launch an investigation into unproven large-scale killings of white farmers in South Africa and takeovers of their land. Leaders in Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, stated that Trump had been misinformed.
It’s unclear if an investigation was ever carried out, or if Trump’s present claims have any connections to these from his first time period.
Division of Authorities Effectivity head Elon Musk was born in South Africa whereas the nation was nonetheless underneath an apartheid regime, which systemically strengthened white supremacy and racial discrimination.
In 2023, he replied on X to a video of a far-left South African political occasion singing an outdated anti-apartheid music, “Kill the Boer.”
“They are openly pushing for genocide of white people in South Africa. @CyrilRamaphosa, why do you say nothing?” Musk tweeted.
“Kill the Boer,” or “Dubul’ ibhunu” in Xhosa, is a notoriously controversial anti-apartheid music. Some consider it to be an open name to violence in opposition to white farmers and by extension white individuals who held a minority rule within the nation via the Nineteen Nineties.
The music was labeled as hate speech in 2010 by the South African Gauteng Excessive Court docket, however the ruling was overturned by the Excessive Court docket of Johannesburg in 2022.
With Publish wires
