{"id":834819,"date":"2025-08-13T08:30:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=834819"},"modified":"2025-08-13T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:30:45","slug":"south-africa-hits-back-at-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/834819\/south-africa-hits-back-at-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa hits back at the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South Africa\u2019s government slammed a <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/834805\/united-states-takes-another-swipe-at-south-africa\/\"><strong>report published by US President Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s administration that said the human-rights situation in the African nation \u201csignificantly worsened\u201d last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The review published by the State Department late on Tuesday echoed some of Trump\u2019s criticisms of the country, including Pretoria\u2019s adoption of a land-expropriation policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also raised concern about alleged extra-judicial killings and repression of racial minorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rand was little changed on Wednesday morning, trading 0.1% stronger at 17.5755 per dollar by 07h10 in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe find the report to be an inaccurate and deeply flawed account that fails to reflect the reality of our constitutional democracy,\u201d South Africa\u2019s Department of International Relations and Cooperation said in a statement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe report\u2019s reliance on a-contextual information and discredited accounts is highly concerning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations between South Africa and the US have been fraught since Trump returned to the White House in January. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has falsely accused the African nation\u2019s government of presiding over a genocide of White farmers, and criticized its international allegiances with countries such as Russia and Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this month, the US imposed a 30% tariff on imports from South Africa. The levy places South Africa among four countries \u2014 the others being Brazil, China and Switzerland \u2014 that have effective tariffs that are \u201csignificantly higher\u201d than their competitors, according to Oxford Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s government slammed a report published by US President Donald Trump\u2019s administration that said the human-rights situation in the African nation \u201csignificantly worsened\u201d last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":807568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[853,18853,10022],"class_list":["post-834819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-south-africa","tag-trade","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834819","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834820,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834819\/revisions\/834820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}