Trump floats G-20 boycott over Land Confiscation and Genocide in South Africa: Is this where we want to be?

President Trump suggested the US may boycott the G-20 summit in South Africa over a “Land Confiscation” law and “Genocide” talk in the formerly white-ruled nation. “How could we be expected to go to South Africa for the very important G20 Meeting when Land Confiscation and Genocide is the primary topic of conversation?” Trump wrote on Truth Social Friday night. “They are taking the land of white Farmers, and then killing them and their families,” the president claimed.“The Media refuses to report on this.”Trump’s post alluded to South Africa’s Expropriation Act of 2024, a law intended to undo the consequences of the 46-year-long system of apartheid that non-white South Africans were subjected to until 1994. The law allows the government to seize land in specific instances, ostensibly when it is not being used or it is in the public interest, and redistribute it. Trump included a compilation of Julius Malema, a radical left-wing South African politician, making disturbing speeches that called for “killing” people in furtherance of a “revolution.”For the last several years, racial tensions between white farmers and non-white citizens in South Africa have been boiling. AfriForum, a group that promotes the rights of South Africa’s white minority population, has long expressed concern that the government has underreported murders of white farmers, insisting that the rate is far higher than the general murder rate. Crime figures in South Africa are not broken down by race.

Of the 6,953 people murdered in the country between October and December, the latest figures, only 12 were killed in farm attacks, according to the BBC.It’s unclear how many of those were white. Trump noted in his post that his administration has already “held back all contributions to South Africa,” referring to his February executive order directing US aid to the country be frozen over the land redistribution law.  The president has also offered “an...