President Donald Trump stated on Friday that South African farmers have been welcome to settle within the United States after repeating his accusations that the federal government was “confiscating” land from white folks and that he would reduce US funding to the nation.
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Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that “any Farmer (with family!) from South Africa, seeking to flee that country for reasons of safety, will be invited into the United States of America with a rapid pathway to Citizenship. This process will begin immediately!”
Trump and Pretoria are locked in a diplomatic row over a land expropriation act that the Republican chief says will result in the takeover of white-owned farms.
Trump, whose shut aide Elon Musk was born in South Africa, stated in February a regulation signed in January would “enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.”
The regulation stipulates that the federal government could, in sure circumstances, supply “nil compensation” for property it decides to expropriate within the public curiosity.
English and Afrikaner colonists dominated South Africa till 1994 below a brutal system wherein the black majority have been disadvantaged of political and financial rights.
The new regulation is meant to handle historic inequalities in land possession, with the minority white inhabitants nonetheless proudly owning most farmland three many years after the tip of apartheid.
But Trump accused the nation of “being terrible, plus, to long time Farmers in the country.”
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has stated he needs to search out settlement with the brand new US authorities on diplomatic, commerce and different points.
Ramaphosa introduced in February that Pretoria plans to ship a delegation to Washington to settle a number of points.
“We would like to go to the United States to do a deal,” he stated in a dialogue with Goldman Sachs vice chairman Richard Gnodde.
“We don’t want to go and explain ourselves, we want to go and do a meaningful deal with the United States on a whole range of issues,” he stated.
Ramaphosa stated he had a “wonderful” name with Trump quickly after the US chief took workplace in January. But relations later “seemed to go a little bit off the rails”, he stated.
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