By Amy Musgrave and Simon Nare
US President Donald Trump’s threats to cut off funds to South Africa over its newly adopted land expropriation law had many South African politicians and government leaders outraged on Monday.
His new threat, plans on US tariff increases and a freeze on foreign aid that will impact countries on the continent to varying degrees, formed part of many discussions during the first day of the African Mining Indaba in Cape Town.
South Africans woke up to the news on Monday morning that Trump would cut off all future funding to the country, pending an investigation into the Expropriation Act.
“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention,” he posted on his social media platform Truth Social.
“A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at
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