EVATON WEST, SOUTH AFRICA – The U.S. president, Donald J. Trump, has taken a position against the South African government that promised to see the U.S. boycott the G20 conference set on February 20-21, 2025.
There has been tension between South Africa and the U.S., a factor culminating in the latter’s president deciding to freeze aid to the former. Many pundits from South Africa have been aghast and defensive regarding the statements and movements of the new U.S. president—decrying that he is being unjust.
It seems that no one has addressed the white elephant in the room—that since South Africa, Israel, and the U.S. are white nationalist settler colonies—this is just a lovers’ quarrel (in February of all times). However, Africans, the Indigenous, and Palestinians are still the enemy of this colonial trio.
History of U.S. and South Africa Relations
It is NOT just the historical abbreviation for both these colonies naming themselves “the USA” (South Africa being the Union of South Africa). From 1799 when the U.S. consulate was established in Cape Town; to the South African/Anglo-Boer War getting support from the U.S., which sympathized with the role of fellow colonizers who wanted to be free from their English handlers so that they could carve out a piece of independence on top of colonized people—all the way to the apartheid era, South Africa and the U.S. were always in bed together.
The latter case saw the U.S. support South Africa economically and militarily from the 1940s until the 1970s when the blatant incestuous relationship between these two colonizers had begun to expose the U.S.’s true nature. Only then did the U.S. feign at being against South Africa’s apartheid form of the colonial state (a thing which the U.S. has not shied away from since then, regarding Israel).
This proves that the U.S. and South Africa are one thing—they are white nationalist settler colonies.
Recent Tensions Between the Two Colonizers
The recent tensions between South Africa and the U.S. are before Trump’s re-election—ever since the joining of the BRICS alliance (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) in 2010—there has been relatively less romance in the air. The recent case in 2022 with the U.S. invading Russia through Ukraine as an outpost has been a major factor.
South Africa, which is an economic partner of both the U.S. and Israel, had started branching out to China and Russia economically, which is something that’s threatened the long lily-white orgy for African resources (not that BRICS is anything positive for Africa).
To this extent, China is South Africa’s largest trade partner, while the U.S. is its fourth.
In a 2023 BRICS conference at Sandton, South Africa—in its capacity as a member of the International Criminal Court—fumbled the responsibility of arresting Russian president Vladimir Putin, as the U.S. had instructed. This has seen less amenable relations between South Africa and the U.S.
In the same year, South Africa condemned Israel for its genocide of the people of Gaza—which in this month has a death toll of over 61,000 people—taking it to the International Justice Court, while the U.S. supported Israel.
In 2024, the U.S. had been working on constructing a bill that would punish South Africa for taking Israel to court. This year, the former colonizer has aimed to deliver on that threat.
Trump Freezes Aid to South Africa—But Loves South Africans (Settlers)
In late January, Trump announced the cessation of funding and aid to South Africa—freezing resources like antiretrovirals; however, the supplier, PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) was unfrozen once more in less than a week.
He also has been trolling the African community through X (formerly Twitter), criticizing our people’s symptomatic behavior that’s due to colonialism—how corrupted and uneducated we are—sentiments much like Obama, Biden, and all those before them had expressed.
He also offered the white settlers (aka South Africans) resettlement in the U.S.; however, the targets of his comradery rebuffed this help—stating that they already had earned their land, in South Africa (at our expense), and they intended to stay.
Just like the South Africans solving their problems by continuing to hold on to our stolen land, the Israelis and the North Americans also believe the same about the land of the Palestinians and Indigenous people.
Our people are yet to be informed that there are objective interests that the U.S. and South Africa are joined by and that they cannot be compromised by minor disagreements such as the ones these two colonies have had.
South Africa, while criticizing Israel’s genocide of the people of Palestine, continues to have trade relations with that country, even offering them resources like coal.
Through the AGOA (African Growth Opportunity Act), the U.S. has granted South Africa access to its local markets for up to 1,800 products. With $9.3 billion worth of U.S. exports going to South Africa—and the latter being the former’s largest trading partner—the evidence that a settler is a settler is a settler is clear.
The U.S. has condemned the actions of Africans taking back our land in Zimbabwe in 2000; the same way it did those of the Black Panther’s children’s breakfast program; anything proximal to self-determination of the enslaved scares the enslaver.
The U.S. had touted South Africa as a symbol of (U.S.-defined) democracy in what it called ‘an ever-increasing sea of undemocratic dictators.’
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South Africa, Israel, and the U.S.—White Settler Colonialist Outposts!
South Africa, like the other two, is a white nationalist outpost, and—although 70 percent of African land is owned by the minority white population numbering only 7 percent—all of them target the same enemy: the African and colonized masses.
South Africa IS colonialism—even if it’s hidden behind a black face—exactly begat or all the above objective, operational factors.
The criticism of Cyril Ramaphosa’s land bill by Donald Trump has nothing to do with morality and human rights, as Trump would have us believe—it has to do with keeping white power as white as possible despite its need to hide behind the skin of the oppressed from time to time.
The land expropriation bill of the African National Congress (ANC), for example, promises to compensate the settlers for our land.
It promises to use the land in a way that sustains colonialism in black face by the continued building of colonial schools and colonial medical facilities (which do not favor nor respect the humanity of Black patients even with Black doctors).
This is also done through the construction of highways that still transport our resources away from our people in need and by building more townships.
Uhuru Movement Needs to be Built in South Africa!
Jesus Christ speaks words akin to those spoken by all our liberation fighters: “How a system is built is how it is maintained” (Luke. 6:43).
This is why we must join the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) chaired by Tafarie Sindisa—because it is a reversal of the maintenance of the colonial mode of production.
This is not done through voting; it is done through organization and weekly meetings in different places in the township teaching our people how to empower ourselves through taking responsibility for our struggle for freedom.
There is a branch in Mpumalanga, led by President Zakhele, and there he is working with his community to build a community garden where the people come together to produce together and to reap together.
In Gauteng, where Chairman Tafarie resides, is a similar trajectory, but it involves creating jobs by building a car wash and managing our waste as a form of self-determination.
People get together and work out at the parks while focusing on the theory of how freedom is attained on a daily basis by our individual actions for the collective.
We are registering and launching the Uhuru Movement as a mass Party this year and we intend to run for local elections next year.
Smash Colonialism wherever you find it! Build the Uhuru Movement where you are! Free Africa! Free Turtle Island! Free Palestine and Gaza! Uhuru!
