South Africa accused United States President Donald Trump of sowing division Thursday after he tweeted that the State Department would probe “land and farm seizures… and the large scale killing of farmers”.
Trump’s tweet apparently followed a segment on conservative Fox News about Pretoria’s plan to change the constitution to speed up expropriation of land without compensation to redress racial imbalances in land ownership.
He added that he had “asked Secretary of State (Mike Pompeo) to closely study” the situation.
“‘South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers’,” said the post that tagged the show’s host Tucker Carlson as well as the channel.
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Source: Seychelles News Agency
