After imposing sanctions on South Africa, the US said he is willing to receive “the persecuted farmers”
The United States is willing to receive “Persecuted South African farmers”a spokeswoman of the State Departmentafter Washington freezed the aid to the African country in retaliation by a law for expropriation of land that the president Donald Trump Consider discriminatory towards white ranchers.
“The persecuted South African farmers and other innocent victims who are signed only by their race and choose to reap in the United States will be welcome”said state spokeswoman, Tammy Bruce, in her network X account.
The statement arises after Trump signed on Friday a decree to freeze US humanitarian aid to South Africa.
In his decision, the Republican president said that The law “would allow the Government of South Africa to confiscate agricultural properties of ethnic Afrikaners minorities without compensation.”
Johannesburg rejects such interpretation and considers that it is a “misinformation” strategy.
“We are concerned about what an misinformation and propaganda campaign looks like”said the South African government on Saturday about Trump’s order, emphasizing that “the base postulate of that decree is factually inaccuing, and does not recognize the deep and painful history of South Africa in the matter of colonialism and apartheid.”
Earth’s property is a controversial issue in South Africa, where most cultivation lands remain the property of whites three decades after the end of the segregationist regime of apartheid and the government is under pressure to apply reforms.
The law signed last month by the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa It stipulates that the Government can, in some circumstances, not offer “any compensation” for the properties that decides to confiscate in public interest.
The tycoon Elon MuskTrump advisor and born in South Africa, accused Ramaphosa’s administration of having “Openly racist property laws.”
The statement of the State Department about South African farmers occurs at a time when Trump carries out an unprecedented offensive against illegal migrantswith deployment of military personnel on the border with Mexico, raids and arrests of undocumented and deportations to the countries of origin with military airplanes.
The Presidency of South Africa He rejected in recent days that the purpose of the law is to “confiscate lands,” as Trump accused.
The South African government said that “it is disappointing to observe that such narratives seem to have found favoritism among those responsible for decision -making in the United States of America.”
The law “would allow the government of South Africa Confiscate agricultural properties of ethnic minorities Afrikáners without compensation, ”Trump claimed in an executive order, in which he also pointed out the confrontations in foreign policy between the two countries by the war in Gaza.
President Ramaphosa, however, said that his country “will not be intimidated” after Washington’s criticism.
“We will not let ourselves be discouraged. As South Africans we are a resilient people. And we will not be intimidated “declared the head of state before the South African deputies gathered in Cabo del Cabo, from where he addressed the Nation in speech that marks the beginning of the parliamentary year.
Although the president of the first economy of Africa did not specifically mention the United States, his intervention referred to the “increase in nationalism, protectionism, the persecution of security interests and the decline of solidarity.”
The legislation empowers “to the government of South Africa to confiscate Agricultural Properties of the Afrikáner ethnic minority without compensation, ”he said Trump In an executive order.
He also cited the accusation of genocide of South Africa against Israel by His war in the Gaza Strip and the strengthening of relations between Pretoria and Iran.
Trump He added that the United States “will promote the resettlement of Afrikáners refugees that escape racial discrimination sponsored by the government.”
The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has also said that he will not attend the next G20 conversations in South Africa On February 20 and 21, accusing the host government of having a “antiestadounidense” agenda.
(With AFP information)
