Another area identified by Mr Trump is property rights. In a move that America’s president seems to have conflated with actual land seizures, on January 23rd Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart, signed the Expropriation Act, which gives the state new powers to expropriate property in the “public interest”.

Pres. Trump issued an Executive Order targeting South Africa (SA). In terms of this order, the United States (US) immediately cut all aid to

Trump and his allies have targeted South Africa, promoting the false narrative that white people are being mistreated by the nation’s post-apartheid government.

South Africa relationship needs a rethink. But the Trump administration’s approach is only making a bad situation worse.

Rural violence is a huge problem in South Africa that deserves a strong response. But white people are not the only casualties.

Though the name of Donald Trump went unmentioned, everyone knew who Ramaphosa was talking about. A few days earlier, the US president had written on his Truth Social platform that South Africa was “confiscating land and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY”.