South Asian News Network

In reaction to US President Donald Trump’s threatening to stop all assistance to South Africa due to a new land expropriation law, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa defended his nation’s image and its legal system. On his Truth Social platform, Trump declared that he would halt all U.S. aid to South Africa due to the country’s “confiscating land and treating certain classes of people very badly.” The law was justified by Ramaphosa and his administration as targeting underutilized land or land that may be reallocated for the benefit of the general population. Trump threatened hundreds of millions of dollars for South Africa’s HIV/AIDS program by ordering a 90-day halt on most international funding just before making some false statements about the country.