President Donald Trump said Sunday that he would cut off funding to South Africa pending a probe over a new law that allows the government to seize land when it is “equitable” to do so.
Trump posted on Truth Social that funding to South Africa had been suspended pending an investigation into the country’s land seizure policies. The move comes after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a law earlier this month allowing the government to take possession of a person’s land when deemed “just and equitable and in the public interest.”
“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 his social media platform. “A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for…