“A massive human rights violation is occurring”. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, announced in a message posted on his social social network that he was going to cut all the funding intended for South Africa. A strong decision, motivated by the discriminatory policy that this African country leads to its white population, according to Trump. “South Africa confiscated from land and treats certain categories of very bad people. This is a situation that the radical left media do not even want to mention ”Cingle Donald Trump.
The head of state of the first world power requested the opening of an investigation into the situation in South Africa, in order to determine whether this sanction should be maintained. “I will cut all future funding to South Africa until a complete investigation into this situation is over!” »».
After this resounding announcement, the course of the Rand (the South African currency) fell by more than 1 %.
Fear of a scenario at Zimbabwean
Donald Trump reacts to a law promulgated on January 23 by the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who, according to him, provides for“Exproprish land in the public interest for various reasons aimed at, among other things, to promote inclusiveness and access to natural resources”.
If they are not appointed, it is the white farmers who are targeted by this reform, according to its detractors. In any event, The South African white community still had 72 % of the country’s private agricultural land in 2017, according to A government audit. Opponents of the new text say they fear a situation similar to what the neighboring Zimbabwe knew after its independence: in the early 2000s, some 4,000 of the 4,500 large white owners at the time had been expelled from their land for their land to the benefit of black farmers, on the orders of the government of Robert Mugabe, recalls AFP.
This Monday, Cyril Ramaphosa wanted to be reassuring, ensuring that this law was not “Not an instrument of confiscation”. “” This is a legal procedure which guarantees access to the land in a fair and fair way, in accordance with the Constitution »»he said.
The situation of white farmers is a burning subject in South Africa. Each year, several deadly attacks against farms are identified, in a tense political context, 35 years after the end of apartheid: in 2023, the leader of the third political force of the country had not hesitated, in the meeting, to launch: “” Kill the Boer (Dutch established in South Africa, editor’s note), kill the farmer »».
