The United States is ready to welcome “persecuted South African farmers”, the spokesman for American diplomacy announced on Saturday, in reference to a South African law on the expropriation that Washington judges discriminatory towards the white minority.
“The United States is ready to help the descendants of the settlers from South Africa who are expropriated and mistreated by the South African government,” said Tammy Bruce, spokesperson for the State Department on network X.
And to continue: “South African farmers persecuted and the other innocent victims targeted only because of their race which choose to reinstall themselves in America will be welcome”.
“We will no longer remain without doing anything while rights conferred by God are so cruelly flouted,” she also launched.
This announcement follows that of Donald Trump, which occurred the day before, of freezing any help or assistance to the country which he accuses of “unjust and immoral practices”.
The American president criticizes the South African government “for seizing the agricultural properties of the ethnic minority of Afrikaners without compensation” via a law on expropriation. Pretoria reacted on Saturday by condemning a “disinformation and propaganda campaign” from Washington.
In South Africa, the majority of land remain held by the white minority, a legacy of a policy of expropriating the black population during colonization and then apartheid.
Washington’s desire to welcome certain South African nationals on its soil as much as it occurs when the American president multiplies measures against immigration and stages expulsions of migrants.
And questions the role played by billionaire Elon Musk, who has become the closest advisor to Donald Trump. Born in South Africa, the entrepreneur accused his country of birth of having “openly racist property laws” on his social network X.