Donald Trump has accused the host nation South Africa of prosecuting its white minority
The White Home Nationwide Safety Council has instructed US federal companies to droop preparations for the G20 summit in Johannesburg, as President Donald Trump continues to accuse South Africa of “genocide,” The Washington Publish reported on Wednesday.
Citing two folks conversant in the matter, the Publish mentioned the transfer aligns with Trump’s earlier risk to boycott the November assembly over what he known as a marketing campaign of prosecution towards South Africa’s white minority.
Pretoria has drawn worldwide consideration since passing a regulation in January allowing the expropriation of land with out compensation – most of which is at the moment owned by white farmers. South Africa has insisted that the land reform is aimed toward addressing the imbalance in land possession that continues to be from the apartheid period.
“White farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa and the newspapers and the media [don’t] even speak about it,” Trump advised reporters on Monday. He slammed Pretoria’s current land reform and indicated final month that he was not planning to attend the annual G20 assembly.
President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected the accusations of genocide as a “utterly false narrative.” He mentioned that he want to meet with Trump to “focus on this matter additional.”
On Monday, State Division officers welcomed round 50 members of South Africa’s white minority who’re within the US as asylum-seekers. Trump promised to offer protected haven for them and expedite the naturalization course of.
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