Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa, with most farmland still owned by white people three decades after the end of apartheid. It is a legacy of a policy of expropriating land from ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday (February 7, 2025), citing disapproval of its land policy and of ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges al-lows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg's denials.

Trump was responding to a new law in South Africa that gives the government powers in some instances to expropriate land from people. The White House said the law “blatantly discriminates against ...

There has been a land redistribution and restitution provision in the country’s constitution since South Africa emerged from its apartheid era and held its first democratic elections in 1994.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its genocide case at the ...

Feb. 8 (UPI) --South Africa is responding to an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying the move to freeze American aid "lacks factual accuracy." Trump on Friday signed an ...

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order cutting US financial assistance to South Africa, citing concerns over its land expropriation law, its genocide case against Israel at the ...

President Donald Trump on Friday froze US aid to South Africa, citing a law in the country that he alleges allows land to be seized from white farmers, despite Johannesburg's denials. The law ...

Trump has said, without citing evidence, that 'South Africa is confiscating land' and that 'certain classes of people' were treated 'very badly.' South African-born billionaire Elon Musk ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut US financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its genocide case at the ...