Trump tweets about land expropriation and 'farm killings' in SA
US President asks secretary of state to investigate 'large-scale killing of farmers'
23 August 2018 - 06:45
US President Donald Trump has asked his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo to "closely study the South African land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers". In a tweet, Trump included the sentence "South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers".
Trump appeared to be reacting to this Fox News report on land seizures in SA:..
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