US President Donald Trump, Elon Musk and AfriForum have congealed into a trinity aimed at derailing land reform in South Africa.
Donald Trump's spreading of the lie on his personal publishing platform, Truth Social, that land was being confiscated from white farmers in South Africa, has enlivened those who seek to derail the land reform process.
Meanwhile, John Steenhuisen, leader of the Democratic Alliance and Minister of Agriculture, noted "with deep concern President Donald Trump's threat to cut critical aid funding in response to the Expropriation Act".
He said while the Act did need to be amended to meet the sequencing requirements, as highlighted by Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson, "there are also opportunities to deal with other concerns that have been raised in the public since the assertion to the Act".
Steenhuisen said, "It is not true that the Act allows land to be seized by the state arbitrarily, and it does require fair compensation for legitimate expropriations in terms of Section 25 of the Constitution."
'Radical Left Media'
The US president blamed the"Radical Left Media" which "doesn't want so much as a mention" of what he termed "a massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum and is happening for all to see", to be exposed....
