Trump freezes aid to South Africa, promotes resettlement of refugees facing race discrimination

President Donald Trump connected Friday signed an enforcement bid cutting each overseas assistance to South Africa, citing concerns astir the state "seizing" taste number Afrikaners’ cultivation spot without compensation.

Trump alleged South Africa's precocious enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 "dismantles adjacent accidental successful employment, education, and business."

The bid notes "hateful rhetoric" and authorities actions person been "fueling disproportionate unit against racially disfavored landowners."

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa antecedently released a connection arguing that nary onshore was confiscated.

"We look guardant to engaging with the Trump medication implicit our onshore betterment argumentation and issues of bilateral interest," according to the statement. "We are definite that retired of those engagements, we volition stock a amended and communal knowing implicit these matters."

The enactment permits the state to instrumentality onshore for a nationalist intent oregon successful the nationalist interest, portion offering conscionable and equitable compensation. 

However, Fox News Digital antecedently reported expropriation has yet to happen.

Elon Musk, person of the DOGE team, publically commented connected the matter, accusing Ramaphosa of having "openly racist ownership laws.

The enforcement bid besides claims South Africa has taken "aggressive" positions toward the U.S. by accusing Israel of genocide - alternatively of Hamas, and "reinvigorating" its narration with Iran to make commercial, military, and atomic arrangements.

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Pointing to those concerns, the enforcement bid states the U.S. cannot enactment the South African government's alleged committee of rights violations.

In summation to eliminating assistance and assistance, the bid notes the U.S. volition beforehand the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored, race-based favoritism -which includes racially discriminatory spot confiscation.

The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security volition prioritize humanitarian relief, including admittance and resettlement done the United States Refugee Admissions Program, according to the order.

Fox News Digital's Paul Tilsley contributed to this story.