South Africa Will Defend Sovereignty

A senior figure from South Africa's ruling ANC party has defended his country's sovereignty amid growing tensions with the US over race relations and a new land law. ANC National Chair Gwede Mantashe says they are a free country not a province of the United States and that sovereignty will be defended. US President Donald Trump has hit out at South Africa's new expropriation law, signing an executive order in February stating it was a means to which the government could "seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation". President Cyril Ramaphosa says the law ensures "public access to land in an equitable and just manner.

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