South Africa appears to be at a crossroads in its waxing and waning relationship with the US following President Donald Trump's controversial decision last week to cut financial aid to the country.Trump said South Africa was pursuing what he called "unjust and immoral practices" against the white minority Afrikaner community and by filing a genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in December 2023.

The world may sympathise with what is said about the need to redress the injustices of the past, but the world is not going to subsidise it – the world wants to invest in economies that are growing, that offer a return’: Joel Pollak,

Many white South Africans are wondering if they qualify for US asylum, but mixed messages from officials have only added to the confusion.