Trump and his allies have targeted South Africa, promoting the false narrative that white people are being mistreated by the nation’s post-apartheid government.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for South Africans to unite after the country’s laws came under attack by US president Donald Trump.

January 2025 came with some uncertainty when contentious bills were signed into law by President Ramaphosa.

U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping all aid and assistance to the country over what he called a human rights violation against a white minority group.

Though the name of Donald Trump went unmentioned, everyone knew who Ramaphosa was talking about. A few days earlier, the US president had written on his Truth Social platform that South Africa was “confiscating land and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY”.

Namibia’s central bank chief warned that escalating tensions between the US and South Africa could destabilise its economy, citing the close ties it has with the two nations and the vulnerability of the Namibian dollar,

Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority have responded to a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to offer them refugee status and resettlement in the United States by saying: thanks,

South Africa relationship needs a rethink. But the Trump administration’s approach is only making a bad situation worse.