South Africa accused US President Donald Trump of fuelling racial tensions on Thursday after he said farmers were being forced off their land and many of them killed.
Trump’s tweet touches on the overwhelmingly white ownership of farmland in South Africa — one of the most sensitive issues in the country’s post-apartheid history.
Responding within hours, the government angrily said: “South Africa totally rejects this narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past.”
“South Africa will speed up the pace of land reform in a careful and inclusive manner that does not divide our nation,” it said on its official Twitter account.”
Trump wrote overnight: “I have asked Secretary of State (Mike)… Pompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.”
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I have asked Secretary of State
@SecPompeo to closely study the Sout Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killin of farmers. “South African Government now seizing land from white farmers.”
@TuckerCarlson @FoxNews
3:28 AM - Aug 23, 2018
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