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Trump cuts all financial aid to South Africa as white farmers allege attacks, land seizures

Mr Trump’s decision came just a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a new expropriation bill into law.

• February 3, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he would be cutting all future aid to South Africa over allegations that the country is ill-treating its White population and confiscating their land.

“South Africa is confiscating land and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention,” Mr Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

Mr Trump’s decision came just a week after President Cyril Ramaphosa signed a new expropriation bill into law, which gives the government the right to compulsory acquisition for public purposes or in the public interest.

The law is part of South Africa’s ongoing land reform plans.

However, critics have argued that the law is only a legal disguise empowering the government to grab private property from the country’s White farmers population.

Mr Trump argued that the situation in South Africa is a “massive” human rights violation and demanded that a full investigation must be conducted before aid from the United States can possibly return.

“A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it. We will act,” stated the American president. “Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”

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