AfriForum has lobbied against the law in U.S. media and political circles, portraying it as part of a wider onslaught against Afrikaners
A member of uMkhonto we Sizwe party enters the Cape Town Central police station where the party opened a treason case against AfriForum – an Afrikaner-led group, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Feb. 10.The party of South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma on Monday filed a treason complaint against AfriForum, a group championing the white Afrikaner minority, after, and Zuma’s MK party accused it in a criminal complaint of spreading misinformation to influence Trump.
The government has defended the land reform law as an attempt to rectify the injustices of the past and has pushed back against what it says is misinformation, pointing out that no expropriations have yet taken place under the law. MK is a populist opposition party that strongly advocates land redistribution and rose quickly to come third in last year’s general elections, taking significant support away from the ruling African National Congress, which lost its majority.
“Based on those lies, those fraudulent misrepresentations, Trump decided to issue an executive order against South Africa,” he told reporters.“It is the duty of civil society ... to put the spotlight on legislation and actions that threaten the welfare of citizens and the country,” he said in a statement.
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