‘Mind your own business!’
Trump told to back off over SA land
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu’s department has described the tweet by US President Donald Trump on land expropriation without compensation as “unfortunate” `and “based on false information”.
She was to immediately meet the US ambassador to seek clarification. In his late night tweet, Trump said he had instructed his secretary of state to look closely at “South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and large-scale killing of farmers”.
The full Trump tweet was: “I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. ‘South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers’ @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews.”
EFF leader Julius Malema called him a pathological liar and ordered the former gameshow TV star to “stay out of SA’s domestic affairs”.
Malema told a media briefing at the party’s headquarters in Braamfontein: “South Africa is a post-colonial country with deep racial inequalities that were long designed by apartheid and colonisation. Our land expropriation programme seeks to realise the ideal of equality and human dignity.”
He said land expropriation was a means to force white people to share land which they gained through a crime against the humanity of black and African people. “We must put it on record‚ unequivocally‚ [to] Donald ‘the pathological liar’ Trump: We are not scared of you and your USA or Western imperialist forces‚” Malema said.
President Cyril Ramaphosa took to the Financial Times to outline the ANC’s position on the land issue.
On Thursday morning Ramaphosa wrote: “Among the greatest obstacles to growth is the severe inequality between black and white South Africans. For the South African economy to reach its full potential‚ it is therefore necessary to significantly narrow gaps in income‚ skills‚ assets and opportunities.” Citing the World Land Bank, he wrote that the disparity of land ownership was the secondbiggest obstacle to fighting poverty‚ after skills.
“The ANC’s view is that an amendment [to the constitution] would provide certainty and clarity” but the amendment “would need to reinforce the fundamental principles of the property clause”‚ including the prohibition on “the arbitrary deprivation of property”. –
We are not scared of you and your USA or Western imperialist forces