{"id":32209,"date":"2025-02-03T05:15:34","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T05:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/trump-says-he-is-cutting-off-funding-to-south-africa-over-land-confiscations\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T05:15:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T05:15:34","slug":"trump-says-he-is-cutting-off-funding-to-south-africa-over-land-confiscations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/trump-says-he-is-cutting-off-funding-to-south-africa-over-land-confiscations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land confiscations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is \u2018treating certain classes of people very badly\u2019, Trump claims as he demands \u2018full investigation\u2019 of situation<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has asserted South Africa is \u201cconfiscating\u201d land and \u201ctreating certain classes of people very badly\u201d as he announced he was cutting off all future funding to the country pending an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The land issue in South Africa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jul\/05\/south-africa-apartheid-land-reform-black-farmers-set-up-to-fail\">has long been divisive<\/a>, with efforts to redress the inequality of white-rule drawing criticism from conservatives including Elon Musk, the world\u2019s wealthiest person, who was born in South Africa and is a powerful Trump adviser.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/03\/donald-trump-cutting-funding-south-africa-land-confiscations-cyril-ramaphosa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is \u2018treating certain classes of people very badly\u2019, Trump claims as he demands \u2018full investigation\u2019 of situation US President Donald Trump has asserted South Africa is \u201cconfiscating\u201d land and \u201ctreating certain classes of people very badly\u201d as he announced he was cutting off all future funding to the &#8230; <a title=\"Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land confiscations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/trump-says-he-is-cutting-off-funding-to-south-africa-over-land-confiscations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land confiscations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}