South Africa will defend sovereignty, ANC chair says amid US tensions
The ANC chair's comments come after months of US tension over race relations and land law.
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"We are a free country, we're a sovereign country. We're not a province of the United States and that sovereignty will be defended," ANC National Chair Gwede Mantashe said on Sunday.
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".
The expropriation law does allow the government to seize land without compensation, but only in certain circumstances.
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