What is the state law of South Africa in the heart of the spit-spit Trump-Ramaphosa? | Donald Trump News

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet the US President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday to deteriorate the relationships between the two countries.

A main topic between the two guides is the recent adoption of a landing law law in South Africa, which Trump denounces and said that it was synonymous with the “persecution” of the rich white minority of the country.

Last week the first set of white South African “refugees” ended up in the United States as part of a larger moving plan for the group under the Trump administration. The South African government has denied allegations of persecution or a “white genocide” in the country.

You need to know the following about the law:

What is the expropriation law?

President Ramaphosa signed the draft law in January after months of the debate in parliament due to the opposition of the Democratic Alliance (DA) party, which is part of the coalition government.

The law allows the government to confiscate land from a private owner, white or in any other way, for public purposes and public interests, including infrastructure projects, expansion of the public service, environmental protection, land reform or just resource sales purposes.

While the law represents adequate compensation, it also enables confiscation without compensation in certain cases.

It replaces an expropriation of 1975 in apartheid and is criticized for the fact that it is legally unclear and has no clear compensation plans.

However, some African groups say that the new law may be violent and could overthrow the values ​​of property. The DA, a former opposition party of the African National Congress of Ramaphosa (ANC), is largely regarded as representatives of the white and African interests.

White Africans are descendants of mainly Dutch colonizers who controlled the country under an apartheid system until 1990, which has separated and excluded the black majority. Many of the most successful managing directors and the most agricultural owners in the country are still white.

White South Africans together own 70 percent of the country in the country, although they only make up 7 percent of the population.

More than half of the black population is now classified as arm. Only a minority of people has access to land. Ramaphosa's government says that the new law will help the government to redistribute land into different categories of historically marginalized groups such as blacks, women and people with disabilities.

In a statement in February, the Ramaphosa office said that the law was not a “confiscation”, but a required guideline to distribute the assets evenly. Seizure implies land confiscation as punishment.

“The recent law on expropriation is not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally prescribed legal process that guarantees public access to land in a fair and justified manner, as is guided by the constitution,” says the explanation.

“Like the United States of America and in other countries, South Africa always had expropriation laws that bring the need to use the public use of land and the protection of the rights of owners,” said the office.

Until mid -May, the South African government did not take over a country without compensation according to the new law.

What did Trump and his allies say about the law?

In February, Trump ordered the US financial support for the “unfair racial discrimination” of the country to South Africa. In his arrangement, Trump quoted the alleged confiscation of land in white and South Africa submitting a genocide proceedings against Israel in December 2023 for his war against Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

“The Republic of South Africa (South Africa) recently enabled the expropriation law 13 of 2024 (ACT) to enable the government of South Africa to confiscate the ethnic minority of Africa's agricultural ownership without compensation,” the Republic of 2024 headed to confiscate the government of South Africa.

“The United States cannot support the violations of violations of the rights in South Africa in their country or the undermining foreign policy of the United States that represent our nation, our allies, our African partners and our interests national security threats,” added Trump.

Previously, the United States provided South Africa by the President of the President of AIDS easier or the Pepper initiative HIV -Aid. This help has already been stopped when Trump held in the US foreign aid worldwide in January.

The entrepreneur Elon Musk, born in South Africa, is also very critical of the land law and is assumed by some experts to influence the policy of the Trump government that aims at the country.

Musk has accused the South African government of taking few measures to stop a “genocide” against white farmers. He also criticized “racist owners' laws for the failure of his satellite internet business Starlink in the country. South African law requires that large companies and those looking for state partnerships, partly in possession of marginalized groups.

What other tensions are there between the two countries?

Trump has also emphasized a group of white South Africans who say that white farmers are exposed to a disproportionate number of violent attacks on their farms, which they are on a “genocide”.

The government of Ramaphosa denies these allegations and says that the deaths of farmers are part of a major criminal problem. Farm attacks and murders are common in the country due to the distance from agricultural locations. Both white and black farmers were aligned in cases of assault, robbery and murder. The South African government does not publish data on racist -specific crimes.

The question of the Gaza Strip is also tense. On December 29, 2023, the South African government submitted an international court against Israel against Israel and accused “of genocidal acts” in their attacks on Gaza in order to annoy the anger of the ally and the great arms suppliers of Israel, the USA.