Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema says utterances by United States President Donald Trump on South Africa’s Expropriation Act are offensive and undermine the country’s sovereignty.
Trump said the US plans to cease financial aid to South Africa pending investigations into what he described as “horrible things taking place in South Africa.”
In a post on his media platform Truth Social, the US accused the country of “confiscating land” and “treating certain classes of people very badly”.
Trump also attacked the media for refusing to give the issue much attention adding that a massive human rights violation “as a minimum” was happening for all to see.
However, Malema says no threats made against South Africa will stop land expropriation without compensation from going ahead.
“The statement by Donald Trump is offensive and undermines our sovereignty and is a reminder that our reliance on foreign aid and foreign direct investment surrenders us to the will of imperialists who use money to dictate the economic and policy direction of Africa. We want to make it categorically clear to the President of the USA that we are going to expropriate land without compensation and pursue legislative measures to do so and no threat will stop us.”
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