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For years against immigrants coming to the US, Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, claiming that he is a US refugee who suffers from what he calls “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” Resettlement was given priority.
Trump has also shut down all funds for the country, many of which are being used to fight AIDS.
According to the president, Africans, architects of South Africa's historically brutal discriminatory systems of apartheid, will resettle in the United States through the US refugee program.
Trump discriminates against the South African government of white Africaners, descendants of most Dutch settlers who arrived in the country in the 1600s and imposed apartheid against the vast majority of black people who lived there until the 1990s. He criticized it on order.
Trump has enacted “number of government policies designed to seize the agricultural property of ethnic Africans without compensation and to dismantle equal opportunities for employment, education and business.” I was furious when I ordered him to be there.
He wrote that the United States cannot support the South African government's “Committee of Rights in the Country.”
The South African government has denied confiscation of private property or racially motivated discrimination. Officials say the government will consider unused or publicly owned land to provide the help of citizens suffering from the apartheid generation.
The Washington Post reports that private property is “rarely confiscated,” and aims to address the disparities created by apartheid.
Africans, which make up only 8% of the population, own three-quarters of the country's farmland, while blacks, who make up 80% of the population, own only 4% of the farmland. .
In a post on Monday in X, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded to Trump's previous attack on the country, saying the land measures were “constitutionally mandated legal proceedings, not confiscation measures.” did.
South Africa is a constitutional democracy deeply rooted in the rule of law, justice and equality. The South African government has not confiscated the land.
The recently adopted expropriation law is not a confiscation measure, but a constitutionally mandated legal…
– February 3, 2025, Cyril Ramaphosa (@cyrilramaphosa)
He later swore in his national speech: “We will not be bullied.”
Trump told Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Christie Noem that “humanity including admission and resettlement through the US refugee admissions program for Africans in South Africa, victims of fraudulent racism.” “Treasury relief will be given priority.”
Trump's right-wing “best buddy” Elon Musk grew up in South Africa's apartheid and continued his student visa after moving to the US for school. Musk has long criticised his hometown as “anti-white.”
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Ramaphosa contacted Musk by phone in an effort reported to set a record shortly after Trump's previous attack.
The new order was one flip-flop that Trump signed on his first day, where he argued that it was tensions towards the country where the refugees received them. Trump said he would reopen refugee programs only if he concluded that doing so would be useful for the US interests.
But Trump's previous orders allowed authorities to provide case-by-case waiver.
The US provided roughly $440 million in aid to South Africa in 2023, with most funding supporting 17% of South Africa's HIV/AIDS responses and providing life-saving drugs to millions He was assigned to HIV/AIDS treatment through the program Pepfar.
