The US federal government is completely cutting off funding for the Republic of South Africa, US President Donald Trump announced today, quoted by Reuters, writes BTA.
"To go even further, any farmer (with family!) from South Africa who wants to flee this country, for security reasons, will be invited to the United States of America with a fast-track procedure for obtaining citizenship“, Trump wrote in a post on his social network "Truth Social".
The US President specified that this process would begin immediately.
The United States' commitments to provide foreign aid to the Republic of South Africa amounted to $323.4 million in 2024. according to government records.
Trump and Pretoria are in a diplomatic dispute over the land expropriation law, which the US president says will lead to the expropriation of farms owned by white people.
The South African presidency reacted quickly, saying in a statement that it would not engage in "counterproductive megaphone diplomacy".
Trump, whose close aide Elon Musk was born in South Africa, said in February that the law, signed the previous month, "will enable the South African government to seize the agricultural property of the Afrikaner ethnic minority without compensation".
The law stipulates that in certain circumstances the government can offer "zero compensation" for properties it decides to expropriate in the public interest, Reuters notes.