Tariff-happy US double down on farm attacks

THE USA is houing dik on claims of farm attacks targeting white South Africans as the SA government and economy reels from President Donald Trump's tariffs.

- BY MANYANE MANYANE

The US has insisted on its claim that white farmers are being targeted in South Africa with the US State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor (DRL) saying the farm attacks in the country are not ordinary crimes.

The DRL said it has visited the country recently to learn more about the rural farm attacks and the breakdown of the rule of law. The bureau said the trip to South Africa was in support of the President of the United States' executive orders.