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Donald Trump has sworn to stop all future US support in South Africa because of his state event policy and to trigger a fall into the edge.
The US President claimed that the recent measures made it possible for the government, property unfairly and accused the South African authorities of treating “certain classes of people very bad”.
He added: “I will cut all future funds to South Africa until a complete investigation of this situation is complete!”
Trump’s comments that were made socially about the truth triggered a decline of 1.6 percent in the South African currency compared to the US dollar.
Later he told reporters that the leadership of South Africa was involved in “some terrible things, terrible things” and suggested that the situation was worse than the land segment.
Last month, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law on expropriation to the law with the state without compensation, under which the government is “just and fair and in public interest” under which the government is “just and just”.
The legislation replaces an apartheid era from apartheid era, in which thousands of non-white families were violently removed from their country for the benefit of a white minority.
Three decades after multirassical democracy, about a quarter of the arable land is owned by Black South Africans, which represented 80 percent of the population. The government aims to transfer a third of land to blacks by 2030. The “land question” remains very explosive.
It was also a test problem for the country’s 10-party coalition. The Pro-Business-Democratic Alliance, a traditional rival of the African National Congress of Ramaphosa, has “strongly contradicts” the new law and said that it could question it in court.
In 2023, the United States put almost $ 440 million on South Africa aside for which data were available. The Trump government has interrupted all foreign help for 90 days and occupied the future of the main agency of the US international aids in doubt Since the website grew dark and dozens of employees were brought on vacation.
Elon Musk, a close ally and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, originally dates from South Africa.
Other powerful Trump Advisers had formative experiences in apartheid in South Africa, including David Sacks, who was appointed his cryptocurrency tsar.
Peter Thiel, the billionaire PayPal co-founder and another Trump Akolyte, spent part of his childhood in the Apartheid convicted Namibia and South Africa, where his father worked for the government of the white minority. Thiel was accused of supporting the apartheid that a black majority has violently subjected to maintain the economic and political power of white economy and political power, an assertion that he has denied.
Ramaphosa said reporters in Davos last month that he had no worries about the relationships and that he and Trump had spoken after the US President was elected. South Africa has the G20 presidency this year.
During his first term, Trump said his government would examine the claims of widespread murders of white farmers. The South African government rejected these allegations as unfounded.
Trump previously attacked the BRICS nations, in which South Africa is a member and threatened them with 100 percent tariffs if they were to move away from the US dollar as a reserve currency.
