US President Donald Trump announces the suspension of all aid to South Africa in response to a new land expropriation law. The law, intended to address historical land inequalities, grants the government the authority to seize private property for public benefit. Trump criticizes the law as a human rights violation and a form of land confiscation, alleging that it disproportionately targets white South Africans. South African officials refute these claims, emphasizing that the law adheres to constitutional guidelines and aims to rectify past injustices.
The law is intended to address historical land inequalities in the country after a 2017 audit found that 72 percent of farmland was still owned by white South Africans.Three decades after the end of the apartheid system, most private farmland in South Africa is still owned by white South Africans. / Photo: APThe US fund 20 percent of South Africa’s $2.3 billion annual HIV-AIDS programme that help provide life-saving antiretroviral treatment to 5.5 million people every day.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa took to X and explained: “The South African government has not confiscated any land. The recently adopted Expropriation Act is not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally mandated legal process that ensures public access to land in an equitable and just manner as guided by the constitution.”
She said “expropriation of property is a potential tool to reduce land inequality. This has become a matter of increasing urgency. South Africans have expressed impatience with the slow pace of land reform.” Section 12 of the legislation which deals with compensation, she said, is the most controversial as it has a provision on nil compensation.Trump claimed that South Africa had witnessed “large-scale killings” of white farmers. His administration even considered investigating these claims, despite statistics showing that such killings account for only a small fraction of South Africa’s annual murder rate.
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