In response to massive human rights violations, President Donald Trump has announced plans to cut off aid to South Africa.
The Trump administration is now investigating South Africa after the country recently implemented a communist and authoritarian law allowing the government to seize land. At the start of February, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law that would allow the government to seize a person’s land if it is deemed “just and equitable and in the public interest.”
This insanely authoritarian law prompted widespread outrage, as South Africa has already been found to be openly discriminating against white citizens, and even allowing for the mass murder of white citizens. Trump responded to the mass murder in his first term, where he demanded an investigation into murders of white farmers across South Africa.
Now, he is taking it one step further — announcing that he is cutting off aid to the country entirely.
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention,” Trump wrote on in a post on his social media platform, Truth Social. “A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”
Remember when people were saying for years that farmers are being targeted for murder by South African terrorists?
Trump just put out a strong statement calling it a “massive human rights violation”
He’s cutting off all funding to South Africa until there’s a full investigation pic.twitter.com/JnP4I7pAxK
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) February 2, 2025
The South African president has since responded by lying that his country would not be “confiscating” any land, but admitted that the law that he signed would allow land to be seized without compensation.
“The recently adopted Expropriation Act is not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally mandated legal process that ensures public access to land in an equitable and just manner as guided by the constitution,” Ramaphosa wrote on X. “South Africa, like the United States of America and other countries, has always had expropriation laws that balance the need for public usage of land and the protection of rights of property owners.”
https://twitter.com/cyrilramaphosa/status/1886319401101910311
Of course, the comments section of his post was filled with people calling out his lies, with Carl Benjamin noting: “South Africa is a black racial supremacy state run by proto-genocidal maniacs.”
X owner Elon Musk, who is originally from South Africa, also responded to Ramaphosa’s lies, asking: “Why do you have openly racist ownership laws?”
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1886321811937189902
Trump was also asked by reporters at Joint Base Andrews about his decision, with one asking whether he planned to cut aid to other African countries. He responded that South Africa was the only country he was targeting right now because “the leadership is doing some terrible things, horrible things.”
“They’re confiscating land, and actually they’re doing things that are, perhaps, far worse than that,” Trump added, noting that his administration was investigating the matter.
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/1886296600332361881
