《新闻南非》（News South Africa）需要重新审视与美国的合作关系，普雷托利亚（Pretoria）执政联盟的一位高级成员在采访中表示，华盛顿方面的要求“相当明确、直接”。基础设施部长迪恩·麦克弗森（Dean Macpherson）的言论表明，南非政府的态度比以往更为缓和；这反映出非洲人国民大会（African National Congress, ANC）与麦克弗森领导的民主联盟（Democratic Alliance, DA）之间存在一定分歧。
The News South Africa needs to reset its relationship with the US, a senior member of Pretoria’s governing coalition said in an interview, describing Washington’s demands as “fairly straightforward.”Infrastructure Minister Dean Macpherson’s comments suggest a more conciliatory stance than has often come from Pretoria, pointing to a measure of distance within the government between the African National Congress and Macpherson’s Democratic Alliance.
麦克弗森指出，任何认为非洲最大经济体可以脱离美国影响的人都是“被误导的”。他强调，这一问题必须“谨慎且策略性地”处理，并警告称，如果处理不当，南非根据《非洲增长与机会法案》（AGOA）所获得的好处可能会受到威胁，两国关系将进一步恶化。“我相信绝大多数南非人都不希望看到这种情况发生，”他说。
Macpherson said anyone who thought Africa’s biggest economy could do without the US was “misguided.”He said the issue must be handled “carefully and strategically,” warning that failure could put South Africa’s benefits under AGOA at risk and cause relations to deteriorate further. “I don’t believe the vast majority of South Africans would want to see that happen,” he said.
目前，普雷托利亚与华盛顿之间的关系依然紧张——尤其是在美国对某些南非官员实施了签证限制之后。特朗普政府还一直对南非的“黑人经济赋权”政策提出质疑；这些政策允许政府在某些情况下无偿征用土地。
Relations between Pretoria and Washington remain strained, particularly after the US imposed visa restrictions on unspecified South African officials. The Trump administration has pressed South Africa over its Black Economic Empowerment rules and laws that allow the state to take land without compensation in some circumstances.
与此同时，南非一直在向美国企业推销矿业合作项目，希望通过商业合作来弥补政治上的分歧。麦克弗森的言论揭示了民主联盟（DA）与非洲人国民大会在政策立场上的差异：作为执政联盟中的第二大政党，民主联盟主要依靠白人选民的支持，长期以来一直被竞争对手视为代表白人利益的政党。
South Africa, meanwhile, has been pitching mining deals to US companies, betting that business-to-business relationships will transcend fractured political ties. Know More Macpherson’s comments offer a glimpse of how the Democratic Alliance, the second largest party in the coalition, differs in its outlook to the African National Congress. The DA draws much of its support from white voters and has long been cast by rivals as a party of white interests.
《黑人经济赋权法》和《土地改革法》旨在纠正种族隔离时期导致南非黑人被排除在经济发展和土地所有权之外的不公正现象。根据世界银行的评估，种族隔离制度结束三十年后，南非仍然是世界上最不平等的社会：占全国人口约7%的白人拥有大部分私人农田。
Black Economic Empowerment laws and land reform laws aim to redress apartheid-era dispossession that left Black South Africans excluded from the economy and from land ownership. Three decades after apartheid, South Africa remains the world’s most unequal society, according to the World Bank. White South Africans, who make up about 7% of the population, own most private farmland.
本月早些时候，在华盛顿举行的非洲侨民论坛上，外交部长罗纳德·拉莫拉将美国为南非白人提供的重新安置计划称为“种族隔离制度的延续”（即“种族隔离2.0”），并警告南非民众要做好最坏情况的准备。不过他在周五对路透社表示，南非政府并不希望与美国发生“针锋相对的对抗”。这种分歧表明，南非联合政府中的两大主要政党在如何应对美国的问题上仍存在分歧。
Speaking in Washington at an African Diaspora Forum earlier this month, foreign minister Ronald Lamola called the US resettlement program for white South Africans “Apartheid 2.0” and warned South Africans to prepare for a worst case scenario in relations. He softened his tone on Friday, telling Reuters that Pretoria did not want a “tit-for-tat war” with Washington. Still, the divergence suggests the two biggest parties in the coalition remain at odds over how to handle Washington.
2024年，民主联盟（DA）与非洲人国民大会（ANC）组成了联合政府。这一决定是在非洲人国民大会首次失去议会多数席位之后作出的。麦克弗森表示，投资者经常询问南非的政治局势，他告诉他们，联合执政在南非已经变得“司空见惯”——这种情况在欧洲部分地区也曾出现过。由于地方选举即将举行，他预计全国范围内将会出现更多联合政府的出现。
The DA joined the ANC in a coalition government in 2024. The move followed the ANC’s loss of its parliamentary majority for the first time. Macpherson said investors frequently ask about the country’s politics, and he tells them coalition rule is now “normal” in South Africa, as it has been in parts of Europe. With local government elections weeks away, he said he expects more coalitions to form across the country.
拉莫拉此次访问迪拜的目的是为了争取更多的基础设施建设资金。南非政府已承诺在未来三年内投入1万亿兰特（约合600亿美元），但麦克弗森指出，还需要1.6万亿兰特的私人部门资金来“缩小政府目标与现实之间的差距”。对于美国对南非黑人土地所有权规定的担忧，拉莫拉表示：“美国企业仍在从南非的经济发展中获利，他们从未对黑人经济赋权政策提出过任何异议。”
His trip to Dubai is aimed at closing South Africa’s infrastructure funding gap. The government has set aside 1 trillion rand ($60 billion) over the next three years, but Macpherson said a further 1.6 trillion rand in private sector funding is needed “to bridge the gap between our objectives and our realities.”Notable Lamola dismissed US concerns over Black ownership rules, saying American companies “are making money” and they have never complained about Black Economic Empowerment.