Is South Africa ‘confiscating land’, targeting some groups as Trump claims? | Politics News

Johannesburg, South Africa — United States President Donald Trump this week threatened to cut all funding to South Africa over what he claims are illegal land grabs by authorities in Pretoria.

Trump’s assertion is grounded in the myth that white South Africans are the targets of unlawful land confiscations, something South Africa’s government has vehemently denied.

“South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Sunday. “The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off…