Another diplomatic front was created by movements and decisions by the US government of the president, this time with South Africa, with a presidential decree signed by the US president yesterday to freeze any US aid in Pretoria to culminate in the two -step relationship. countries that have been building in recent days.
Yesterday, Trump announced that the US will not now provide aid in South Africa, citing law providing for expropriations of land, claiming to discriminate white farmers. The controversial law “allows the South African government to seize agricultural properties of the African national minority without compensation,” Trump defeated a presidential executive decree suspending assistance, referring to the white minority. At the same time, he cited South Africa’s appeal to the International Court of Justice (IAS) against Israel for Genocide in December 2023.
The decree provides for the freezing of all US funding “as long as the South African government continues its unfair and immoral actions”.
Reacting to the Presidential Decree, Pretoria today denounced a “misinformation and propaganda campaign”.
In a statement, the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed its “strong concern” on the basis of a claim made in the decree that “lacks precision and does not recognize the deep and painful history of colonialism and apartheid of South Africa”.
“We are worried about what seems to be a misinformation and propaganda campaign aimed at a distortion of our great nation,” the South African Foreign Minister said in today’s announcement. “It is disappointing that such narratives seem to be endorsed by decision -making in the United States of America.”
Yesterday’s Trump Decree came as a climax in a escalation in Washington-Pretoria, which began last week, with Trump accusing South Africa of land seizures following the promotion of a law on expropriations by his counterpart Siril. The latter reacted strongly, contradicting the accusations, saying that his country “will not be left to be intimidated”.
The phrasal attacks of the world -born South Africa Musk – richest man in the world and a senior official of Donald Trump’s government – who accused the South African government of promoting “open racist laws for ownership” US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio announcing on Wednesday that he will not travel to South Africa to take part in a G20 meeting.
The South African Presidency, with its announcements last week, repeatedly denied any intention of “seizures”.
This diplomatic tension foreshadows upheavals for the first US trade partner in Africa, many experts point out, as Washington has given about 2023 about $ 440 billion in aid in South Africa, according to US government data.
In the Presidential Decree, Trump promises to be offered help and his country welcomes people who under him are “unfair distinction because of their race”.
Today, State Department spokesman Tami Bruce reiterated that the US is ready to welcome “persecuted white farmers and other innocent victims targeted exclusively because of their race”.
Pretoria described in its current announcement particularly “ironic” that the US decree provides “refugee regime” in the US in “a group of South Africans who remains one of the most privileged financial” while at the same time “people in vulnerable condition, from others from others Parts of the world are deported by the US and refuses to be asylum despite the real difficulties they face. “
The small Afriftorum organization, aimed at “protecting and promoting the identity of Africans”, expressed its “great satisfaction with Trump recognition and the US of injustice to which the Africans are undergoing”. However, the organization stresses that the position of the white South Africans is in their country and all in the US.
The issue of the earth divides South Africa. Most of the land is held by the white minority, heir to the political expropriation of the black population during apartheid.
The president of South Africa promoted a law at the end of January that allows the government, under certain conditions and for reasons of public interest, to decide expropriation without any compensation. Pretoria argues that the law does not allow the Authorities to arbitrarily expropriated land and that they should initially try to close an agreement with the landowner.
