President Cyril Ramaphosa defended South Africa's land policy on Monday after Donald Trump's threat to cut off funding because of what he said were land confiscations. Trump said the previous day, without citing evidence,

President Donald Trump has threatened to cut all U.S. aid to South Africa while claiming, without evidence, that the government there is confiscating land, wading into a sensitive racial issue while deepening already sharp divisions between the United States and South Africa over the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off aid over the alleged mistreatment of White farmers, denying Trump’s claim that authorities were “confiscating land.