PNN – The American president accused the South Africa of violating the rights of its citizens, taking aggressive positions against Israel, and strengthening military and nuclear relations with Iran and by signing an executive order ordered the suspension of financial aid to that country.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network Donald Trump, who announced a few days ago that he has decided to cut off US aid to South Africa, signed the related executive order.
According to the text of the order, the United States cannot support South Africa’s “shocking disregard for the rights of its citizens” as well as “aggressive postures” toward the United States and its allies.
In this text, among other things, the strengthening of South Africa’s relations with Iran “for the development of commercial, military and nuclear arrangements” is mentioned.
Relations between Iran and South Africa have expanded in recent years, and Ebrahim Raisi traveled to that country to participate in the BRICS meeting.
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South Africa’s new land policy
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the controversial land expropriation law into law on February 5, which allows for the free confiscation of agricultural land from certain ethnic minorities.
According to Donald Trump’s executive order, the passage of this law is a continuation of countless other policies that the South African government has taken to “destroy equal opportunity.”
Mr. Trump has criticized the South African government’s action in passing this law several times before.
Elon Musk, his top adviser, who was born in South Africa, also accused the country of having “racist property laws” and said white people are the victims of these laws.
A few days ago, Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, said that he will not participate in the G20 summit that will be held in South Africa.
According to the new law of South Africa, which replaced the law approved in 1975, the conditions of expropriation of land by the government have been changed and the previous principle of “consensual purchase and sale” and payment to the land owner has been abolished.
The purpose of this law is to establish racial balance in land ownership; however, this law has faced opposition even at the level of the South African government, and opponents have said they will take the matter to court.
Proponents of this law say that more than 30 years after the end of apartheid in South Africa, blacks still own a small portion of agricultural land, and whites, who make up about eight percent of the country’s population, own 80 percent of these lands.
Donald Trump’s executive order also mentions South Africa’s action in opening a case at the International Court of Justice “accusing Israel and not Hamas of genocide.”