South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appeared to respond to threats from U.S. counterpart Donald Trump by saying in his annual speech to the nation that his country would “not be bullied.” The comment by Ramaphosa on Thursday was seen as a reaction to Trump’s pledge to cut all funding to South Africa over a new land expropriation law that.
A multimillion-dollar home is close to falling into the Cape Cod Bay.
That part of the speech was met with applause and cheers by members of Parliament and others attending South Africa’s version of the State of the Union. Trump’s claims about South Africa — some of them inaccurate — came soon after he ordered a 90-day freeze on most global aid, threatening hundreds of millions of dollars the U.S. gives South Africa for its HIV/AIDS program, the largest in the world.
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