What is behind Trump’s aid threat to South Africa over land? โ€ข FRANCE 24 English

President Cyril Ramaphosa defended South Africa’s land policy on Monday after Donald Trump’s threat to cut off funding because of what he said were land confiscations. Trump said the previous day, without citing evidence, that “South Africa is confiscating land” and “certain classes of people” were being treated “very badly”. He would cut funding until the matter was investigated, he said. South Africa analyst An Wentzel joined France 24 to shed some light on Trump’s comments and the reaction to it.
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39 comments
  1. Sanction the overseas travels of ANC politic leaders. Demand accountability of ANC leaders towards its own citizens, without spirit of Passivity the president operates in.

  2. What's behind it is we just don't need to be giving them any money. The reverse apartheid or whatever nonsense they're trying to implement is South Africa's business. We all knew that was going to happen eventually when the Boers were kicked out.

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  4. SA needs to look for new markets for its products and stop depending on US market. There was a similar threat against the country during Biden's administration also but this one looks awful. You cannot go through this constant interference in your domestic affairs. Look for alternatives in Africa, Asia and South America. The relationship between SA and US is not healthy at all as the US wants to control your country. SA is not the 51st state of the United States. This needs to stop and don't put all eggs in one basket.

  5. They used "property" as the language though, right? So it's not specific to land property only.
    They could effectively turn the middle class into work horses who operate "for the sake of the state" with a law like this.

  6. He was also probably also talking about the huge bribe they took from Iran to illegally take Israel to a court that belongs to an organization that both Israel and the US does not subscribe to. To be so arrogant to think you can arrest a respected world leader… Who would they go after next? The US president? Nah…. Trump is getting ahead of it.

  7. 30 years since 1995 election in south africa and still anc needs BEE how long do they need to proof them self. They are constantly crying white privilege. White people must start their own business or go work overseas to make a living….

  8. If their farms fail usa should not send humanitarian aid. Starvation can change people's minds and get them to come around

  9. White farmers who have lived there for hundreds of years. They are killing them of by the thousands, and then wondering why they are starving.

  10. If 8% have kept the country moving for 30 years, then perhaps it is not the best thing to take their land. Because we see how well it has gone when the remaining 92% is in power.

  11. If certain land taken in the 50's then the government go for that certain land. Why make a law of for certain lands. Now all lands can be taken by force

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    Well a lot of people and media are getting this all wrong. What happened is that Lesotho has petitioned the return of its territory in South Africa through Dr Tsepo Lipholo who supposedly sent proofs of this claim and multiple complains about South Africa to Lesotho. So someone should make research on these about DR Lipholo's case. By the way, these land expropriation act was signed all the way in January, but Trump made these comments the next day after receiving this complaints from Lipholo. The certain groups of people being treated bad in South Africa are Basotho. South Africa also used illigal chemical bombs in military intervention in Lesotho in 1998. Someone should make research on Dr Lipholo's news.

  13. ANC took too long to look at the Land question. We are going to vote for EFF Malema or Mk Zuma to finish this once and for all. Weโ€™ve been waiting for 30 years and yet โ€œcertain peopleโ€ have made loans using stolen land as leverage – creating generational wealth.

  14. ๐Ÿ˜‚Americans are useless you guys threaten all these countries and chase away foreigners but you have a foreigner a South african running your country ๐Ÿ˜‚

  15. The land reform policy is not the only human rights violations agains whites. They are literally calling for us to be murdered from podiums and have made 144 laws excluding white people from the economy.

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