Posted on 08/24/2018 7:17:23 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
South Africa's government summoned the U.S. envoy on Thursday following President Trump's tweet about land seizures to express that the government was "disappointed" that Trump had chosen to publicly attack the country's policies rather than make the criticism through established channels.
The Associated Press reported that South Africa’s government says it informed U.S. Charge d’Affaires Jessye Lapenn that the president's tweet accusing the country of "large scale killing" of farmers was based on "false information."
The tweet served “only to polarize debate on this sensitive and crucial matter," the government added, according to the AP.
The president tweeted about the issue late Thursday, indicating that he had directed the State Department to look into the matter after seeing a report on the issue from right-wing Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
"I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. 'South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers,'" the president tweeted.
Trump's comments center around a South African program working to distribute land to black farmers who were forced off their lands by white officials working under the country's old racist apartheid system.
According to an AP fact check of the situation, there is no evidence of "widespread killings" or that white farmers are being targeted by the country's government. Murders on farms, which are largely in isolated, rural areas, are a reflection of the country's wider security problems, according to experts.
However, the South African Parliament is considering a change to its constitution that would allow for the government to seize land without compensation.
On Wednesday, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa told the country's parliament that the redistribution plan was necessary to redress historical injustices.
“The acceleration of land redistribution is necessary not only to redress a grave historical injustice, but also to bring more producers into the agricultural sector and to make more land available for cultivation,” Ramaphosa said.
PS. Where is the United Nations?
Isn't this what the UN was supposed to prevent?
“South Africa to US envoy: ‘Disappointed’ Trump would ‘polarize debate’ with tweet”
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As they say down south...el tougho $h!to!
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Do we need to point out that the land the the government seeks to steal is large farms. Farms are by definition in isolated rural areas. That is because to farm you need lots of largely undeveloped land so that you can grow food.
The jackasses who wrote this obviously live in swamp cities like NY and DC and think that food comes from a Supermarket, restaurant or lunch wagon.
We should automatically take ALL healthy white South Africans without criminal records.
The policy is RACIST!
Those taking over the farms will FAIL because they don't know what they're doing.
The economy will FAIL.
And yes, there WILL BE MASS MURDER!...because that's what the leaders are calling for.
Yes, it is so polarizing to point out a patent injustice!
It seems funny to me that they aren’t concerned about the policy the are taking and don’t care that Trump said anything. They are concerned about the route it came from, i.e., public domain that can reach into everyone and not just the government.
My parents used to say, “if the truth hurts........” So if you can have everyone see it, and it’s a problem, everyone seeing it is not the problem. It’s seeing the problem.
rwood
Land seizures aren’t a debate. They are an act of violence. In this case, racist violence.
Not as “disappointed” as those raped and dead white farmers. Face it. Whites have been put on notice. Time to sell, get what you can and leave. Go where you are wanted.
Here we go again! We’re all watching in slow mo the next African genocide.
Murder rate for these white farmers 20 times international average
https://www.wnd.com/2017/04/murder-rate-for-these-white-farmers-20-times-international-average/
Published: 04/01/2017 at 8:05 PM
Among those ramping up the hatred is South African President Jacob Zuma, who sings a song about genocide and is now seeking to expropriate white-owned farms without even providing compensation.
Here’s Zuma singing the genocide song:
More than a few experts and political leaders have suggested there is a nexus between many of the barbaric farm murders and the political efforts to confiscate the farms and properties of white South Africans.
The hatred fomented by political leaders often turns bloody and brutal beyond belief.
Van Wyk’s tragedy>> (see link above)
Shades of Kathy Buckle (in Zimbawe, previously know as Rhodesia)
She was the stupid apologist who survived that massacre and continued to write about it.
"disappointed" that Trump had chosen to publicly attack the country's policies rather than make the criticism through established channels."Publicly" being the operative word in that sentence.
Well, if any of these bigoted communistic blacks die because some farmer defends his family they may swing into action.
BA Women's Studies from Hah-Vahd
MS Mumbo-Jumbo from some dump in Britain
All of which qualifies her to be the Defender of Liberty in Johannesburg.
Whatta laff. She probably spends all her time at ANC planning meetings for the coming concentration camps, and gives them contacts to get automatic weapons they couldn't dream of building on their own.
Shades of Kathy Buckle (in Zimbawe, previously know as Rhodesia)
She was the stupid apologist who survived that massacre and continued to write about it.
Just another example where folks simply don’t get Trump......probably on purpose. Anyone with a brain knows he is referencing their business.......they are killing the farmer’s business.
“LeBron James is killing the Sixers....... “only a moron would view that as committing actual murder.
South Africa is racist and murdering whites and stealing their lands but calls Trump “polarizing”???
We should invade South Africa and take it over since it is ripe for the picking and doesn’t deserve to exist anymore.
What??? You are going to ca on a sim organization to moderate on grenocides?
Wait, you have a valid point . Islam has had plenty of experience in genocides.
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