Symbol copyright Reuters Image caption Donald Trump’s tweet adopted a work on Fox Information about South Africa’s planned land reforms
South Africa has accused US President Donald Trump of looking to sow department after his tweet referring to the “large-scale killing of farmers”.
He stated he had requested his secretary of state to look into the matter of “seizing land from white farmers”.
South Africa’s presidential spokeswoman stated Mr Trump was “misinformed”.
Last month, South Africa mentioned it will cross beforehand with plans to amend the charter, allowing land to be expropriated without repayment.
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The redistribution of land used to be a fundamental idea of the governing African National Congress (ANC) all the way through its struggle against white-minority rule.
South Africa’s land problem
The Natives Land Act of 1913 limited black other folks from buying or renting land in “white South Africa”, resulting in the pressured removals of black other folks After the top of apartheid in 1994, the ANC govt mentioned it desired to return 30% of this land to its earlier homeowners through 2014 It’s predicted that 10% of commercial farmland has been redistributed.
