South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed into law a broad climate change act that will set caps for large emitters and require every town and city to publish an adaptation plan.

Trump ally and South Africa-born entrepreneur Elon Musk is also highly critical of the land law, and is believed by some experts to be influencing the Trump government policies targeting the country.

President Trump signed an executive order formally halting all aid to South Africa and urged his Cabinet to come up with a resettlement program for Afrikaners who he claims “are victims of ...

South Africa's main opposition party, joined by some labour and business groups, said on Tuesday it would go to court to fight a bill aimed at providing universal health coverage, which President ...

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law which allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic ...

Elon Musk, a close Trump ally and head of Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, has highlighted that law in recent social media posts and cast it as a threat to South Africa’s white ...

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.

President Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation of the country’s policies, including a new land expropriation law.

US President Donald Trump, right, and Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa's president, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, May 21, 2025. Photo: Jim Lo ...

What have Trump and his allies said about the law? In February, Trump ordered that US financial aid be cut to South Africa for the country’s “unjust racial discrimination”. In his order ...