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Trump freezes aid to South Africa amid spat over land expropriation law

US President Donald Trump, pictured in Washington, DC, the United States on February 6, 2025, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pictured in Maputo, Mozambique, on January 15, 2025 [Ting Shen and Alfredo Zuniga/AFP]

United States President Donald Trump has frozen aid to South Africa in an escalation of a rift between his administration and Pretoria over a controversial land expropriation law aimed at tackling inequality stemming from apartheid.

In an executive order signed on Friday, Trump said the law showed a “shocking disregard” for citizens’ rights and would allow the government to seize land from ethnic minority Afrikaners without compensation.

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