What is really driving Trump’s fury of South Africa?

So, can the South African government and the ANC of President Cyril Ramaphosa specifically satisfy those who believe that an agrarian reform is essential without being economically frozen by the United States and losing foreign investors?

A job is to solve what is really promoting Donald Trump. Nomvula Mokonyane, Undencretary General of the ANC, does not believe that this is only the issue of the earth and thinks that South Africa’s position on Israel can be the driver.

She says: “Our opinion is that we must let our government involve the US administration, so that we understand if we are dealing with the problem of expropriation of the land, or we are dealing with many other problems … related to Palestine and So and so on. “

The signing of the expropriation bill comes in the context that the ANC is in a coalition with other parties for the first time, and may be trying to point to black voters who are still willing to fight for their rights.

After Trump’s freezing, Ramaphosa said South Africa will not be intimidated in his speech of the nation earlier this month. It is one of the few positions with which all its partners of the coalition seem to agree.

Professor Hall does not detect many possibilities of any meaning change on the new law. She says: “We have said very clearly that the expropriation law is a law that was approved by a democratic parliament. It has signed it in the law, which is its obligation as state president.”

South Africa already feels the effects of the United States diplomatic pressure: both the United States Secretary of State and the Treasury Secretary have refused to join their counterparts at this month’s G20 meetings organized by South Africa. And there are concerns that Donald Trump could also be absent from the top of the leaders at the end of this year.

President Ramaphosa has promised to send sent to the United States and other countries to explain the positions of his country on the Expropriation Law, the war in the Middle East, as well as some of his other foreign policy decisions.

If South Africa can soften the current hostility that comes from Washington, without compromising its national priorities it is a great test for this incipient democracy.