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US President Donald Trump has ordered the suspension of any help from the United States to South Africa, due to an expropriation law deemed discriminatory to the country’s white minority.
In a decree signed on Friday, Trump accuses Pretoria of “racial discrimination led by the government” against white Afrikaners, and calls on his administration to develop a plan to reinstall them in the United States as “refugees”.
The South African government has confiscated “the agricultural land of Afrikaners’ ethnic minorities without compensation”, and implemented “countless policies intended to repeal equal opportunities” in employment, education and business, says The decree.
He also points to the adoption by South African leaders of “aggressive positions with regard to the United States and their allies”, in addition to their “increasingly close ties” in particular with Iran.
The decree stresses that the United States “cannot support human rights violations committed by the South African government, nor its actions aimed at undermining the United States foreign policy.”
These actions constitute, according to the presidential decree, “threats to the national security of our nation, our allies, our African partners and our interests”.
In the wake of this cold stroke between the two countries, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, announced that he does not intend to go to the G20 meeting scheduled for Johannesburg on February 20 and 21.
Donald Trump’s decree orders all American agencies to “immediately” stop any assistance to South Africa, including development aid and health programs.
