According to a report by Reuters during her visit to Cape Town, May said on Tuesday that she would support land grab “as long as this legal”.
May had to move to dancefloor diplomacy on the opening day of her Africa trade trip when she bobbed up and down as she was greeted by pupils singing and dancing at the ID Mkize secondary school in Cape Town.
During her trip she met with the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, before heading to Nigeria and Kenya to meet their respective presidents, Muhammadu Buhari and Uhuru Kenyatta.
“The UK has been supporting land reform plans for a long time,” May confirmed. She had already discussed plans with London President Cyril Ramaphosa in London last year.
US President Donald Trump had criticised the measure on Twitter.
Last week, the government in Pretoria expropriated rthe first land owned by white farmers. In February, the parliament approved a motion from Julius Malema, a Marxist leading the Economic Freedom Fighter Party.
“The time for reconciliation is over,” Malema declared after the vote. The vast majority of the ANC then agreed to the proposal, which does not provide for compensation for confiscating land owned by whites.