US president’s controversial tweet followed Fox News segment calling government seizure programme ‘immoral’ South Africa has described a tweet by Donald Trump ordering his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, to look into the alleged seizure of farms and “large-scale killing of farmers” as polarising and based on false information and lobbying, as the furore over the president’s comments continues.Trump’s controversial tweet followed a segment on Fox News on Wednesday in which host Tucker Carlson claimed the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, had started “seizing land from his own citizens without compensation because they are the wrong skin colour”, calling the action “immoral”. Continue reading…
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