A number of US officials visited South Africa at the request of President Donald Trump as part of an investigation into the country’s land expropriation process.<\/p>\n
Trump raised eyebrows in 2018 after he tweeted<\/a> <\/strong>that the South African government was ‘seizing land from white farmers’.<\/p>\n Trump asked his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to study the seizure and expropriation of land in South Africa, along with the killing of farmers.<\/p>\n According to the Rapport,<\/a><\/strong> the US delegation – including deputy secretary of state John J. Sullivan, and the US deputy ambassador to South Africa Jessye Lapenn – met with AgriSA, Grain SA, and ANC officials on Friday (15 March) to discuss how the land expropriation process may impact property rights in the country.<\/p>\n In the meeting, AgriSA highlighted the recently released list of land expropriation<\/a> targets<\/a><\/strong> in the Northern Cape and warned that the ANC would bring about an “economic catastrophe” if it planned to expropriate farms that were an essential part of the South African economy.<\/p>\n The group also discussed the high rate of farm murders in the country, with AgriSA asking the US government to intervene to help prevent land grabs in the country.<\/p>\n