President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that formulates his announcement earlier this week that will freez The White House equals discrimination against discrimination. the white minority of the country.
“While South Africa continues to support bad actors on the world stage and allow violent attacks against innocent disadvantaged minority farmers, the United States will stop help and assistance to the country,” said the White House in a summary of the order. The White House said Trump will also announce a program to reassure White South African farmers and their families as refugees.
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Trump was responding to a new law in South Africa that gives the government powers in some cases to the expropriated lands of people. The White House said the law “blatantly discriminates to ethnic minorities Afrikaners.”
The Expropriation Law was signed by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last month and allows the government to take land in specific cases in which it is not being used, or where it would be of public interest if it is redistributed.
Its objective is to address some of the errors of the racist era of apartheid of South Africa, when black people had taken their land and were forced to live in areas designated for not white.
Elon Musk, a nearby ally of Trump and the head of the new Trump government efficiency department, highlighted that law in recent publications on social networks and throws it as a threat to the White minority of South Africa.
The order also refers to the role of South Africa to bring accusations of genocide against Israel before the International Court of Justice.
The arrest in foreign aid to South Africa occurs in the midst of a broader pause for most United States abroad Trump, while seeking to change what he calls a foreign policy of “America first.”
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