Donald Trump

Donald Trump has, since he was sworn into office, been behaving like the President of the world. If he does not threaten to annex Canada, Mexico, Greenland and Panama Canal, he will be imposing grandiose tariffs as if the international system would never retaliate.

The latest among his dictatorial actions is the signing of an Executive Order to freeze aid to South Africa and resettle White South African farmers and their families in the United States as refugees. From the look of things, the influence of Elon Musk, the South African billionaire who is close to Trump is yielding a negative result.

The new Executive order, according to The White House, is in response to South Africa’s Expropriation Act, “which permits the government to seize land without compensation.”

According to the White House: “We are standing up for human rights and against racial discrimination,” the statement from the White House reads. “No one should face persecution based on their ethnicity, and the US will provide a haven for those in need.” The US government also criticised South Africa’s recent move to support legal accusations of genocide against Israel at the International Court of Justice. This alignment with perceived anti-Israel stances has exacerbated diplomatic strains.”

When Apartheid was the official policy in South Africa, minority whites owned majority of arable land while the majority of blacks were pushed far away into areas of parched earth! But with the crash of the White minority rule, the ruling African National Congress (ANC)-led government reversed the trend and sought to redistribute land to the country’s black majority to rectify historical inequalities.