The withholding of U.S. aid could inflict its greatest damage on South Africans with HIV
U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded his global target list to include South Africa, complaining about “horrible things” by its leadership and threatening to halt all U.S. funding for the country.
“I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!” Mr. Trump said in a social media post on Sunday. The program has been vital in combatting the deadly virus across Africa and the developing world, saving an estimated 25 million lives since its launch. It is especially crucial in South Africa, where 7.8 million people are living with HIV, the largest number in the world.
In 2018, during his first term in office, Mr. Trump said he had ordered an investigation of “farm seizures” and the “large scale killing of farmers” in South Africa. Right-wing extremists have often alleged that a “white genocide” is under way in South Africa, and Mr. Musk repeated the allegation in 2023, but the claim has been widely debunked. Statistics show the vast majority of South African murder victims are Black and the number of farm killings has been in decline.
Patrick Gaspard, a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa, said Mr. Trump’s threats of a funding halt were motivated by a “devastatingly insane fringe conspiracy” of a “race war” in South Africa. South Africa’s long-delayed expropriation bill, debated for years, is a replacement for a 1975 apartheid-era law. It brings the law into line with the country’s 1996 constitution, which provides for expropriation at below-market prices in some cases – as long as the compensation is “just and equitable.” Even the pro-business Democratic Alliance party, which plans to challenge the law in court, has acknowledged that it will not permit the arbitrary seizure of land.
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