The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said he will cut future funds in South Africa to “confiscate” land and “treat certain kinds of people very bad” waiting for an investigation.
The problem of the earth in South Africa has been divisive for a long time, with efforts to correct the inequality of the white rule that causes criticism of conservatives, including the richest person in the world and the Trump advisor, Elon Musk. who was born in South Africa.
The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, signed a bill last month that stipulates that the government can, in certain circumstances, offer “null compensation” for the property that decides to expropriate in the public interest.
Trump wrote on his social platform of truth on Sunday: “South Africa is confiscating land and treating certain kinds of people very badly. I will be cutting all future funds to South Africa until a complete investigation of this situation has been completed!
However, the South African government argues that the bill does not allow the Government to express the property arbitrarily and first must seek to reach an agreement with the owner.
Some groups fear a situation similar to the seizure of the Zimbabwe's government of white -owned commercial farms, often without compensation, after independence in 1980.
Later, in an informative session with journalists, Trump said the “leadership of South Africa is doing some terrible things, horrible things” without giving examples.
“So that is under investigation at this time. We will take a determination, and until the moment we discover what South Africa is doing: they are taking land and confiscating land, and they are actually doing things that may be much worse than that. “
Earth's property is a controversial issue in South Africa, with most cultivation lands that are still owned by whites three decades after the end of apartheid.
Since then, the land courts have been awarded in a handful of land disputes and, after exhaustive processes, returned land to previously displaced owners.
According to the South African government, the Native Land Law of 1913 saw thousands of black families withdrawn by the force of their land by the apartheid regime.
The delicate problem has been a particular recovery point for the right, with several conservative figures that include musk and right -wing journalist Katie Hopkins who defends the cause of white land owners.
Musk was born in Pretoria on June 28, 1971, son of an engineer father and a model mother born in Canada, leaving the country in his adolescence.
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