The Afrikaners gathered at the US embassy on Saturday under the banner “Make South Africa Great Again,' to thank Donald Trump.
The Afrikaaners gathered at the US embassy on Saturday under the banner “Make South Africa Great Again.”
“I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”.Two Afrikaner movements, AfriForum and the Orania Movement, rebuffed Trump in less than a week following the US president’s claims. However, the group of Afrikaners descended on the US embassy, thanking Trump for punishing what they allegedly called “ the violent and corrupt ANC.”“If you go there, you can’t just come back. I think America is a beautiful country, everything is working there, there’s law and order which I can say for South Africa, it’s difficult here. But, if I was younger, I would definitely take the chance.”
He spoke about how South Africa should have passed a law to redistribute land equitably when the country’s final constitution was passed. Pretoria residents, Hanli Groenewald speaks to The Citizen outside the United States of America Embassy in Pretoria, 15 February 2025, about unemployment , drugs and Saftey in the country. Video:Nigel Sibanda /The Citizen
Ramaphosa’s 10th Sona was a measured response to Trump and his secretary of state, Marco Rubio’s unprecedented attacks.Without providing any evidence, Trump claimed that “South Africa is confiscating land and treating certain classes of people very badly,” referring to the new law signed by Ramaphosa and aimed at addressing racial disparities in land ownership.While Ramaphosa did not mention Trump directly during the Sona, he addressed rising global tensions in his speech.
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