{"id":6414,"date":"2025-02-10T05:14:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2025-02-10T05:14:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T05:14:12","slug":"south-africas-land-act-targets-a-stark-divide-trump-and-musk-oppose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2025\/02\/10\/south-africas-land-act-targets-a-stark-divide-trump-and-musk-oppose-it\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa’s land act targets a stark divide, Trump and Musk oppose it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link to article: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/stark-divide-that-south-africas-land-act-seeks-bridge-2025-02-09\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month South African president Cyril Ramaphosa signed an expropriation act, aiming to redress the gaping land inequalities in a region of the State. Fateng Tse Ntsho is a township in South Africa that houses over 7,000 Black South Africans. These people live in huddled houses with metal rooves and nothing but miles of grasslands surrounding them. Those grasslands are owned by the prosperous white farmers whom own acres of land. This inequality can be found as a persistent result of the white minority rule when South Africa was a colony of Great Brittian, that ended almost three decades ago. This new law allows the government to confiscate land even without compensation. American ideals starkly oppose this, so US president Donald Trump has been raising his concerns for this possible issue. Last week he threatened to cut off South African Aid for these land seizures. The US even began to offer these white farmers compensation for their land including aid and humanitarian relief. Others condemn the US’s actions pointing out how White farmers have so much land in the state whilst black people have been clustered together forced to live in townships. Not to mention White people only take up 8 percent of the South African population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking at this issue from a foreign affairs view with hindsight bias this issue could be used to promote offshore balancing. When the different colonizers came into Africa they thought they were helping the people. Yet they left it almost worse than they found it, with borders drawn in wrong places and racism even more apparent. If countries stop acting for what they think is best for the world and let countries figure it out for themselves we may end up with a better result. Liberal hegemony is good in theory, but trying to get a world that is filled with vastly different cultures and histories to all think and act the same way will leave the world with more conflict than it originally had. So instead of meddling in every countries affairs, but simply balancing your own, you may end up with a world that’s just a little more friendly. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link to article: https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/stark-divide-that-south-africas-land-act-seeks-bridge-2025-02-09\/ Earlier this month South African president Cyril Ramaphosa signed an expropriation act, aiming to redress the gaping land inequalities in a region of the State. Fateng Tse Ntsho is a township in South Africa that houses over 7,000 Black South Africans. These people live in huddled houses with metal rooves and nothing but miles of grasslands… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6415,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}