In Bid to Help White Landowners, Trump Cuts Off Aid to South Africa, Threatening Millions of Lives

[Uncle Joe]

President Trump has ordered a freeze on all foreign aid to South Africa in an executive order he signed Friday, claiming that a new land reform law amounts to "government-sponsored race-based discrimination." The country's white minority still owns the vast majority of farmland decades after the end of apartheid rule. Trump also criticized South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ and said the United States would accept white South Africans as refugees facing what he characterized as persecution. The cuts to aid are already causing widespread suffering in South Africa, where "after 30 years of democracy, not much has changed in terms of wealth ownership" and a white population with colonial roots is "using politics, ideology, misinformation and propaganda … to maintain the status quo," says South African activist Trevor Ngwane.

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[AloeVera]

1. Land justice, fairness, equity, economic progress for blacks, a tiny step to righting a historical injustice?

It pushes all his buttons, especially the racist ones.

White Afrikaners - just 8% of the population - still own the vast majority of land. Very little progress has been made in land justice, stymying economic progress for blacks. It's been 30 years since the end of apartheid.

It goes without saying that he's totally misrepresenting - lying - about the new law. It is a tool for taking land in the public interest - with agreement of landowners and in rare cases without - to facilitate public access to land in the public interest. He doesn't mention of course that the U.S. and other Western nations have similar laws that allow for expropriation for the public interest.

This pathetic excuse for a man has the gall to talk about "racist discrimination" and protection of private land just days after he proposed - without a shred of remorse or shame - ridding Gaza of its native population to turn it into a playground for the rich.