🇿🇦🇺🇸 South Africa to Send 3 Delegations to the U.S. — But Whom Will They Meet?

At least three separate delegations of South Africans are planning to visit the U.S. after President Donald Trump’s criticism of their country’s Expropriation Act last week — but it is not clear whom they will meet in the new administration.

One [delegation] is being organized by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa; one is being arranged by the opposition Democratic Alliance; and another is being arranged by the trade union Solidarity, which tends to represent white and Afrikaans-speaking workers.

The first two delegations seem determined to explain to President Trump why he is wrong; the third seems to want to explain why he is right.

But aside from the lack of a common front, there is also another challenge: there may be no one in a position of responsibility who will meet with them.

President Trump is unlikely to do so, as is Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who announced earlier this month that he will not attend a G20 meeting in South Africa next week over the country’s “anti-Americanism.”

South Africa’s leaders seem to believe that the focus should be persuasion behind closed doors in Washington rather than change to failing policies at home.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/12/south-africa-to-send-three-delegations-to-the-u-s-but-whom-will-they-meet/

🇺🇳🇿🇦 UN backs SA’s Land Act as step to address racial land imbalance

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Office in Geneva has described South Africa’s Land Expropriation Act as a critical step in addressing the country’s racially imbalanced land ownership.

https://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/unhr-backs-sas-land-act-as-step-to-address-racial-land-imbalance/

👨‍🌾 Jacques Broodryk, AfriForum Spokesperson for Community Safety:

▫️Expropriation with nil compensation. Let's look at the bigger picture: Over the past two decades, the ANC government has used multiple avenues to weaken landowners rights and make them vulnerable to expropriation.

▫️Removing Water Rights:

Landowners used to own the water on their land. That changed with the National Water Act of 1998, which transferred ownership of all water resources to the state.

Now, farmers must apply for water-use licenses, which can be denied at the government’s discretion. Proposed legislation to apply racial criteria in awarding such licenses is also currently on the table.

▫️Stripping Mineral Rights

In 2004, the Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act (MPRDA) abolished private ownership of minerals. Landowners no longer control the resources beneath their own soil—the state does.

Mining rights can now be handed to politically connected companies, while landowners have little say in the matter.

▫️A recent example is CJ Williams en Seuns Boerdery vs. Stuart Coal in Delmas. The farmer refused the mining company access to his property because no compensation agreement had been reached.

Instead of defending the landowner’s rights, the Mpumalanga High Court ruled in favor of the mining company, granting them access despite no settlement being reached. This sets a dangerous precedent: landowners are powerless against state-backed mining companies.

▫️Many farms have been targeted in this manner, with farmers simply finding notices of exploration stuck to their fences. If they want to fight it, it again leads to a costly legal battle against those with mining interests.

📎 Jacques Broodryk