South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other country, and US President Donald Trump’s aid freeze has hit patients hard – as well as researchers, who were close to a breakthrough in
Farmers in South Africa have issued mixed responses to U.S. President Donald Trump’s interjection in the recent land Expropriation Bill signed into law. Basically, the South African government can now expropriate land,
In the rural villages of South Africa, U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden freeze on foreign aid impacts hundreds of thousands of HIV patients.
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 prompted claims from critics that it discriminates against White farmers.
Some white South Africans have showed support for President Donald Trump and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their own government.
South Africa may have to plan for all scenarios as the United States (US) government under President Donald Trump takes its time to respond to South Africa's calls for a meeting to discuss the recent tensions between the two nations.
The duty-free access to the US provided by AGOA has benefited a number of sectors, particularly South Africa’s automobile industry. Motor vehicles make up around a fifth of South Africa’s exports to the US and are worth an estimated $1.9 billion, putting them only behind precious metals.
Another area identified by Mr Trump is property rights. In a move that America’s president seems to have conflated with actual land seizures, on January 23rd Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart, signed the Expropriation Act, which gives the state new powers to expropriate property in the “public interest”.
What's the context? South Africa's new land act has angered the U.S president and divided South Africans. Why? Trump cuts SA funding, citing land theft from whites Most land still owned by white South Africans Critics blame influence of Elon Musk on Trump Thirty years after the end of white minority rule in South Africa and land ownership remains a hot topic in one of the world's least equal nations.
U.S. President Donald Trump's attacks on what he alleges is South Africa's mistreatment of its white minority are being met with mockery on social media by some white South Africans poking fun at their own privilege.
Rapprochement comes as Trump upends relations with allies through actions including tariff threats. Read more at straitstimes.com.