'White people have to tell the truth...land is not being taken from them'

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Minister of Sport, Arts, and Culture Gayton McKenzie has urged white South Africans to ‘tell the truth’ about the Expropriation Act.

Last month, the South African president signed a bill that allows the government, under certain circumstances, to offer “nil compensation” for property it decides to expropriate in the public interest.

On Sunday evening, US President Donald Trump announced that he would cut off all future funding to South Africa pending an investigation. He claimed that certain individuals were being treated very unfairly and that the country was confiscating land.

Following Trump’s tweet, Gayton McKenzie, along with the ANC and other organisations, blamed the Afrikaner lobby group Afriforum for providing the U.S. president with misinformation regarding the expropriation bill.

Gayton McKenzie gets involved over the expropriation bill

In his tweet, Trump stated that the South African government was “confiscating land” and treating certain groups of people very poorly. In response, McKenzie disagreed with Trump, asserting that white South Africans were not being treated badly or having their land taken.

“White ppl have a duty to speak up and tell the truth, white ppl are not being persecuted and land is not being taken from them. We as Government handled the PR regarding expropriation bill terribly that I will admit. The whole world is made to believe that whites are under siege,” Gayton McKenzie said on X.

His tweet received mixed reactions, with some criticising BEE policies introduced by the government decades ago. South African-born businessman Elon Musk has also hit out at the government over the implementing of the bill.