Donald Trump attacks Ramavusa South Africa on targeting white farmers

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Donald Trump attacked South African President Cyril Ramavusa because of his country’s treatment of white farmers at a televised meeting at the White House on Wednesday, which depths of a crisis in relations between the two countries.

Trump told “Trump” Ramavusa In the oval office.

“You have laws that have been approved that give you the right to confiscate the land without any payment, you can take away the land without any payment,” he said.

Trump At one time, I took an unprecedented step from dropping newsreel reports to video screens on the Oval Office wall, and played to show violence against white farmers, with the amazing Ramavusa sitting next to it.

This episode was echoes to face the extraordinary oval office in February, when Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinsky was restored by Trump and Vice President JD Vance in front of the global media.

The goal of Trump’s anger is the Land Reform Law in South Africa seeks to compensate for injustice from the apartheid and the effect of a conspiracy theory on the American right faced by white people in South Africa “genocide”.

Washington is also angry at the issue of genocide led by South Africa in the International Court of Justice against Israel because of its actions in Gaza.

Since he took office in January, Trump reduced aid to the country, expelled his ambassador and threatened to boycott the G20 summit for this year, hosted by Pretoria.

It also offered asylum to a number of white families of Afrikkanner that claims to be a victim of racial discrimination.

Pretoria says that the claim that the government is seizing on the lands of white farmers and nourishing violence against white landowners inaccurate and “failing to identify the deep and painful history of South Africa.”

In the period before the meeting in Washington, Ramavusa prepared to make concessions to the United States, such as allowing the country’s preferential access to mineral resources and gas deposits, and the opening of South African markets for American agricultural companies.

Pretoria was also considering a compromise to allow South Africa -born Elon Musk, an explicit critic of the Ramavusa government, which was present at the Oval Office, to operate the Internet online service in the country.