Americans paying attention to Donald J Trump’s recent social media posts, may have seen him posting on Truth social media platform and X about South Africa, no doubt one of the countries he had in mind when he called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” in 2018 during his previous stint as president. In the recent post about South Africa, he had this to say: “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. A massive human rights violation, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed.” The South African presidency has already responded to Trump’s claims, clearly stating that no land confiscation has o...
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