{"id":829608,"date":"2025-06-26T14:32:31","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=829608"},"modified":"2025-06-26T14:32:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T12:32:31","slug":"united-states-reveals-demands-about-bee-expropriation-and-kill-the-boer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/829608\/united-states-reveals-demands-about-bee-expropriation-and-kill-the-boer\/","title":{"rendered":"United States reveals demands about BEE, expropriation, and \u201cKill the Boer\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States has demands related to farm attacks, land expropriation, BEE, and \u201cKill the Boer\u201d as preconditions to mend relations with South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This information was shared by a South African delegation of Afrikaner leaders who met with senior White House officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegation included FF+ leader Corn\u00e9 Mulder, Southern African Agri Initiative chairman Theo de Jager, and National Employers\u2019 Association CEO Gerhard Papenfus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They met with senior White House officials, including representatives from the Office of the Vice President, the National Security Council, and the Homeland Security Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting in Washington, DC, the United States officials communicated the Administration\u2019s official position regarding South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This included the necessary preconditions for the normalisation of bilateral relations between the United States and South Africa. These preconditions are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The classification of farm attacks as a priority crime.<\/strong> The White House officials pointed out that farm attacks are not addressed with the same urgency and resources as rhino poaching and cash-in-transit heists. Each farm attack should be investigated by the Hawks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>A clear and unequivocal public condemnation by the ANC of \u201cKill the Boer, kill the Farmer\u201d<\/strong> whether used in song or any other context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>No land expropriation without fair market compensation.<\/strong> Expropriation should only proceed after all legal processes have been fully exhausted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Exemption of USA entities from all Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) requirements.<\/strong> Any race-based legislation that may constitute a non-tariff trade barrier should not apply to USA entities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of these issues made headlines before and after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s meeting with US President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Afrikaner delegation said it was committed to supporting the normalisation of relations between South Africa and the United States.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe delegation now has a clear understanding of the USA Administration\u2019s expectations,\u201d it said in a press statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Mulder, the White House officials expressed concern that these conditions have not been adequately addressed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that U.S. officials communicated these conditions to the South African government multiple times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The officials asked the Afrikaner delegation to convey these conditions clearly to the South African public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The delegation has undertaken to communicate these pre-conditions to both the South African government and the broader public in the interest of transparency, accountability, and the restoration of strong bilateral ties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States officials have provided four conditions to normalise relations with South Africa, which include demands on farm attacks, land expropriation, BEE, and \u201cKill the Boer\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":821975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[22979,1293,22980,22981,22982,3659],"class_list":["post-829608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-corne-mulder","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-gerhard-papenfus","tag-theo-de-jager","tag-washington-dc","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829608"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829613,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829608\/revisions\/829613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}