by | The inevitability of Trump’s so-called common sense, which he first expressed in his conclusions about the fatal air disaster over the Potomac River, arrived again on Sunday when he claimed, again without an iota of evidence, that “South Africa is confiscating land,” and that “certain classes of people” were being treated “very badly.” As expected, he announced that he would cut off funding to the country.
In response to Trump’s unfounded claim, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the government had not confiscated any land and that he looked forward to talking to Trump to explain a policy that ensures equitable public access to land.
Trump’s aide-de-camp, Elon Musk, himself South African, said in a post on his social media platform X that South Africa had “openly racist ownership laws,” suggesting the whites there were the victims.
Let’s take a look at land ownership in a country that for years was governed by draconian laws of apartheid. Whites today possess three quarters of the freehold farmland in the nation, compared to 4% of Black landowners. In the nation, Blacks comprise 80% of the population and whites only 8%.
What the nearsighted and wrongheaded Trump was possibly reacting to, though there is no way to determine how he configures his common sense, was the bill Ramaphosa signed into law last month to address the disparity by making it easier for the state to expropriate land in the public interest.
Basically, and without any reservations, we agree with the African National Congress (ANC), who accused Trump of “amplifying misinformation propagated by Afriforum, a right-wing lobby group that promotes the views and opinions of white Africaners speakers.”
According to the ANC, Trump’s attack was a “direct result of the lobby group’s ongoing efforts to mislead the global community and protect apartheid-era land ownership.”
What is clearly at play here is Trump’s bias, his lack of human decency, and certainly one who, despite his claim, is devoid of common sense.
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