Despite ill-advised efforts to ‘help’ white farmers in South Africa, Donald Trump’s actions are having the opposite effect according to a new report.
The Lowdown
Donald Trump’s longshot efforts to influence society in South Africa have run into even more problems. According to Reuters, the effort by Trump to stop the government from supposedly taking land from white farmers which resulted in aid being suspended to the country is hurting the same people he claims to want to protect.
Reuters notes that Trump reportedly wants to end what is known as the Africa Growth and Opportunities Act which would directly harm white farmers just like Black farmers (but race isn’t recorded in these instances in Africa.) Under that act, Africa gets tariff-free quotas on agricultural exports.
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