Trump cuts aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against Afrikaners
by Rachel Savage in Johannesburg from World news | The Guardian on (#6V54C)
US president also offers asylum to Afrikaners and criticises law that allows land seizures without compensation in some circumstances
The US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, accusing the country's government of unjust racial discrimination" against white Afrikaners and offering them asylum in the US.
The order criticised a law signed by the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, last month that allows for land to be expropriated with nil compensation" in limited circumstances.
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