DA leader Helen Zille slammed the ANC for antagonising US President Donald Trump after he slapped tariffs on South African exports to America yesterday.
While announcing the wholesale tariffs on trading partners including China, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, Japan, South Korea, the European Union and Australia, Trump remarked that "a lot of bad things" are going on in SA.
Trump was referring to what he believes is the confiscation of land belonging to white Afrikaners.
Zille told NewzroomSA: “The government won't learn. There is tension between the ANC and just about every democracy in the world, and there is certainly profound tension between the ANC and democrats in South Africa.”
With SA’s automotive industry hit with up to 31 percent tariffs, it is believed that thousands of jobs will lost.
Trump brushed off fears of global economic turmoil, insisting that the tariffs would restore the US economy to a lost "Golden Age."
He said: "For decades, our country has been looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far, both friend and foe alike."