South Africa denies ‘confiscating land,’ after Trump threatens to cut off aid By Jessie Yeung, CNN 2 min read Published 4:42 AM EST, Mon February 3, 2025 ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of apartheid but has angered critics.

South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump has criticized South Africa's new land laws. (Evan Vucci/AP/RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images) ...

Trump’s executive order cutting aid and offering refugee status to South Africa’s Afrikaner farmers has caused a stir in the African country after passage of a controversial land bill.

South Africa’s president fired back at President Trump on Monday after the American leader accused the South African government of “confiscating land” and “doing some terrible things ...

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.

The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference has called for “racial reconciliation” in response to ongoing tension between South Africa and the U.S. over land reform.

President Donald Trump has said that he will cut all US funding to South Africa, accusing the government there of confiscating land and “treating certain classes of people very badly,” an ...

The halt in foreign aid to South Africa comes amid a broader pause to most U.S. overseas assistance under Trump, as he looks to shift to what he calls an “America First” foreign policy.

Elon Musk also has an ongoing gripe with South Africa's race relations laws, which stipulate that any investors in the country's telecoms sector provide 30 percent of the equity in the South ...