Trump issues executive order on South Africa

[mahatmakanejeeves]

ADDRESSING EGREGIOUS ACTIONS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA
EXECUTIVE ORDER
February 7, 2025

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Purpose. In shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights, the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 (Act), to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation. This Act follows countless government policies designed to dismantle equal opportunity in employment, education, and business, and hateful rhetoric and government actions fueling disproportionate violence against racially disfavored landowners.
In addition, South Africa has taken aggressive positions towards the United States and its allies, including accusing Israel, not Hamas, of genocide in the International Court of Justice, and reinvigorating its relations with Iran to develop commercial, military, and nuclear arrangements.

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[Mike 03]

1. Oh no. It's not that South Africa doesn't have

problems. But T doesn't know what they are.

It seems not an hour can pass without him further humiliating our country.

[milestogo]

7. But he knows a guy from South Africa

and believes whatever that guy says.

[RainCaster]

2. His ignorance knows no bounds

Whenever I think "he can't possibly be that stupid", he shows us a new layer of even greater stupidity.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Could mean he does the exact opposite here /nt

[Cirsium]

4. He is lying

Trump is lying about this.

[Lulu KC]

5. "ethnic minority Afrikaners'"

Oh, please.

[milestogo]

6. Now he's making an idiot of himself before the whole world.

Does he know his executive orders do not extend to South Africa?

[C0RI0LANUS]

8. These are the people Trumpf and Felon Musk want in the US.

Read the book "Invictus" (or take a darned shortcut and watch the film) about how the late great Nelson Mandela averted a civil war with the well-armed and trained AWB.


(AWB training announcement flyer)

[RussBLib]

9. Trump is concerned about "equal opportunity" in S.A.?

....and is feverishly moving to dismantle same here in the U S.

There's some classic hypocrisy.

[Cirsium]

10. Response

Response from the Government of South Africa

8 February 2025
Media Statement
The Government of South Africa has taken note of the latest executive order issued by President Trump. It is of great concern that the foundational premise of this order lacks factual accuracy and fails to recognise South Africa’s profound and painful history of colonialism and apartheid.

We are concerned by what seems to be a campaign of misinformation and propaganda aimed at misrepresenting our great nation. It is disappointing to observe that such narratives seem to have found favour among decision-makers in the United States of America.

It is ironic that the executive order makes provision for refugee status in the US for a group in South Africa that remains amongst the most economically privileged, while vulnerable people in the US from other parts of the world are being deported and denied asylum despite real hardship.

We reiterate that South Africa remains committed to finding diplomatic solutions to any misunderstandings or disputes.

ISSUED BY THE MINISTRY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND COOPERATION

OR Tambo Building
460 Soutpansberg Road
Rietondale
Pretoria
0084

https://dirco.gov.za/government-of-south-africa-notes-the-usa-executive-order/

[C0RI0LANUS]

11. Afrikaaners say no thanks to Trumpf and Felon Musk (the worst person in the world).

On Saturday, two of the most prominent groups representing Afrikaners said they would not be taking up Trump’s offer of resettlement in the US.

“Our members work here, and want to stay here, and they are going to stay here,” said Dirk Hermann, chief executive of the Afrikaner trade union Solidarity, which says it represents around 2 million people. “We are committed to build a future here. We are not going anywhere.”

At the same press conference, Kallie Kriel, the CEO of the Afrikaner lobby group AfriForum, said: “We have to state categorically: We don’t want to move elsewhere.”

Another mistake for the new installed Fourth Reich.




Source:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-south-africa-afrikaners-0120efec17122b47e3371e0e39fe1db8