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It follows Mr. Trump’s accusation on his social media site on Sunday that the South African government was engaged in a “massive violation of human rights, as a minimum.” He promised a full investigation and promised to cut off assistance.

“South Africa confiscates land and treats certain classes of people very poorly,” the president wrote in the position. “It’s a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want as much as to mention.”

The order was fantastic by providing official American support for long -term conspiracy theories of mistreating white South Africans in the time after apartheid.

Mr. Trump has made repeated claims without evidence that I repeated these conspiracy theories. In 2018, he ordered his Secretary of State To investigate “the great killing of farmers” – a claim disputed by official figures and the country’s largest farmers’ group.

Mr. Trump’s recent comments referred to a policy that President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa signed in the law last month.

The law, known as the Expropion Act, abolishes a law on apartheid era and, in some cases, allows the government to acquire privately owned land in the public interest without paying compensation-something, which can only be done after a justification process subject to judicial review.

The order from Mr. Trump came a day after Mr. Ramaphosa delivered its state state address with a troop that seemed to be a reference to the US president’s accusations.

“We won’t be bullied,” he said. The South African leader promised to be united in light of what he called “the emergence of nationalism and protectionism.”

“We will speak with a voice in defense of our national interest, our sovereignty and our constitutional democracy,” he said.

In addition to Stop in Foreign Aid, Trump ordered officials to provide “humanitarian” assistance to Africans and give members of the white South African minority the opportunity to seek refuge in the United States through the US refugee program.

Since the transition to democracy in 1994, the South African government has taken a willing-seller approach to trying to transfer the ownership of more land to the country’s black majority. The new law, with limited exceptions from this approach, came when many black South Africans have claimed that Nelson Mandela and other leaders did not do enough to force the white minority to abandon wealth that had been accrued during apartheid.

South Africa’s colonial regimes were especially brutal by expelling black people from their land and removing them vigorously. Despite the efforts of post -colonial governments, the result remains clear today: White South Africans, which make up 7 percent of the population, their own agricultural land covering most of the country’s territory.

In a previously executive order, Trump had demanded a three-month break in the United States refugee program and blocked the recording of desperate people fleeing war, financial strife, natural disasters or political persecution. Friday’s order seemed to make white South Africans an exception to the wider stop.

Although it is not clear if he had an impact on the president’s order, Elon Musk, the billionaire, who has become a close adviser to the president, is from South Africa. In 2023, Mr. Musk-like conspiracy at the right-wing conspiracy on South Africa on X, the social media platform he owns.

“They are pushing open on the genocide of white people in South Africa,” Mr. Musk wrote.

Mr. Ramaphosa and Mr. Musk spoke via telephone after the social media post, where the South African president tried to clarify what his administration has called “wrong information” that had gone by Trump.

In large parts of South Africa, Mr. Trump’s attack in recent days a rare bit of political entity in which leftist, central and even some right-wing activists all said the US president’s characterization of the land transfer law was wrong.

His comments reinforced a long -lasting complaint among some white South Africans who claim they have been discriminated against by the black -led government after apartheid. But Mr. Trump’s comments also angry many South Africans who saw the law as a necessary means of remedying historical injustice.

Since 1994, when South Africa became a democracy, the country has had a close relationship with the United States. Barack Obama visited there several times during his presidency, including when he participated in Memorial Service for Mr. Mandela, who had been imprisoned for 27 years before becoming the president of the country.

But Mr. Trump’s actions on Friday made it clear that he doesn’t see the relationship the same way.

South Africa received more than $ 400 million in the assistance of the United States in 2023, which almost all went to funding efforts to fight HIV and AIDS. The government has said that US funding amounts to approx. 17 percent of its budget to fight HIV

Right-right white Africans welcoming Mr. Trump’s attack on South Africa’s government in recent days.

Ernst Roets, CEO of the African Foundation, as lobbies for international support for Africans’ interests said that even though the government did not seize land, it tried to create a legal and political framework to do so.

The Expropriation Act opens the door to abuse, Mr. Roets because the government “can justify a lot of things under the banner of general interest.” But even Mr. Roets and his group had not called on Mr. Trump to broadly cut help to South Africa, rather than seeking targeted actions against government leaders.

After Mr. Trump first commented on confiscation of land, the South African government tried to mediate a conversation between its foreign minister and Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, according to Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to the United States. But the Trump administration didn’t answer, he said.