South Africa, U.S: adverse Trump tweet, but not for Ramaphosa’s politics

Summary A tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump over South Africa’s land expropriation policy heightens negative attention on the South African economy. The attention is not necessarily politically negative for President Ramaphosa, who can use it to counter far-left criticisms he is captured by “white monopoly capital.” Analysis U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted late August 21 that he asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study South Africa’s land and farm seizures and expropriations, and also killings of the country’s farmers. Responses from South African officials were unsurprisingly negative and included comments of rejecting the U.S. president’s divisive, narrow, misinformed …

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