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Donald Trump and the tortured history of South Africa’s land

Land ownership remains country’s toughest policy problem as it grapples with the legacy of apartheid

Donald Trump has long been preoccupied with South Africa’s most fraught and emotional domestic policy issue: land.

In his first term the US president directed his then Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — via Twitter — to “closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures” and the supposed “large-scale killing of farmers”.

This week he repeated these pet theories in an Oval Office encounter with South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa, who at one point closed his eyes and seemed to will himself to stay calm. Trump’s key claim was that “officials” in South Africa were saying “kill the white farmer and take their land”.

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