South Africa's second biggest political party launched a legal challenge Monday against a new land expropriation law that was roundly criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump as a rights violation against a white minority and prompted him to cut all funding to the country.

Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa, has frequently accused its government of enacting “racist ownership laws” and failing to prevent what he has described as a “genocide” against white farmers. Last week, he directly challenged South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on X, asking, “Why do you have openly racist ownership laws?”

At the same time he’s slamming doors on refugees from “shithole countries,” Trump is offering asylum to a foreign white-identity group.

The party of South Africa's ex-president Jacob Zuma on Monday filed a treason complaint against AfriForum, a group championing the white Afrikaner minority, after Donald Trump attacked the country's new law aimed at redistributing white-owned land.

White community organisations in South Africa have firmly rejected an offer from former US President Donald Trump to grant refugee status

Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. aid to South Africa, which provided for U.S. resettlement of some "victims of racial discrimination."

President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Musk after Trump said he would suspend aid to the country over its land reform policy.

US President Donald Trump has accused South Africa of human rights violations against white farmers, continuing a dispute that escalated this week as the US froze aid to the country. On Sunday Trump wrote on his Truth Social account: "South Africa is confiscating land,

President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social criticizing South Africa’s land policies and announcing plans to cut US funding until an investigation takes place. The statement quickly drew a response from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa,