Overview

• President Donald Trump announced a halt to U.S. aid to South Africa, citing a law that allows land expropriation without compensation as discriminatory against the white Afrikaner minority.
• The South African government criticized the decision, calling it a campaign of misinformation that ignores the country’s history of colonialism and apartheid.
• The U.S. has offered refugee status to white South African farmers, claiming they face persecution and racial targeting under the new law.
• South Africa clarified that the law permits expropriation only in exceptional cases deemed just and equitable, and does not intend to confiscate land arbitrarily.
• Elon Musk, a South African-born billionaire and Trump advisor, has publicly supported the U.S. stance, describing the law as openly racist, further straining relations between the two nations.