After freezing aid, Trump offers resettlement to White South Africans, but they decline
On Friday, Trump signed an order stopping US aid to South Africa, accusing its government of enabling attacks on white farmers and seizing Afrikaner-owned land without compensation.
Trump said the United States trade surplus with Australia was one of the reasons he was considering an exemption from the tariffs. (AP photo) Groups representing South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority have rejected President Donald Trump’s offer to resettle them in the United States, following his administration’s claims of rights violations against them.
On Friday, Trump signed an executive order halting all US aid to South Africa, accusing its government of allowing violent attacks on white farmers and implementing a land expropriation law that enables the seizure of Afrikaner-owned farms without compensation.
The South African government dismissed these allegations, calling them misinformation. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesperson said, “South Africa is a constitutional democracy. We value all South Africans, Black and white. The assertion that Afrikaners face arbitrary deprivation and, therefore, need to flee the country of their birth is an assertion devoid of all truth.”
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