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Donald Trump threatens to cut funding for South Africa over land reform policy

Feb 03, 2025 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    20% Somewhat Conservative

  • Reliability

    65% ReliableAverage

  • Policy Leaning

    50% Medium Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -13% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : South Africa's president responded to Trump with a post on X: "South Africa is a constitutional democracy that is deeply rooted in the rule of law, justice and equality.
50% : Trump also hit out at South Africa during his first term as US president, asking the-then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study the country's "farm seizures and expropriations and the large-scale killing of farmers".
35% : Mr Musk said to Ramaphosa in a post on X.South Africans' anger over land set to explodeOn Sunday, Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social: "I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!"
31% : At that time, South Africa accused Trump of seeking to sow division, with a spokesperson saying he was "misinformed".

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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