Afghanistan, Feb. 9 -- In a move that sent shockwaves through international diplomacy, President Donald Trump wielded his executive power with full force, halting all U.S. aid to South Africa and offering refugee status to the country's white minority. His administration framed it as a response to alleged "rights violations" against Afrikaner farmers, a claim South African officials swiftly denounced as misinformation and political manipulation.
Trump's order, signed on Friday, came with a blistering rebuke of the South African government, accusing it of allowing violent attacks on white farmers and pushing a land expropriation law that, according to his administration, enables the "seizure of Afrikaner agricultural property without compen...