Political Parties React To Trumps Threats To Cut Funding To Sa

United States President Donald Trumps threats to cut funding over assumptions of the impact of the newly passed Expropriation Act have garnered much political reaction locally.

Trump said the US plans to cease financial aid to South Africa pending investigations into what he described as horrible things taking place in South Africa.

This appears to be triggered by misinformation, which the African National Congress ANC blames on the lobby group, Afriforum, which had previously lobbied in the US in 2018 against the then bill, which is now an Act of law.

Other political parties in South Africa, however, hold a different view to the ANCs assertion.

"Doing some terrible things, horrible things so thats under investigation right now, to make a determination and until such time as we find out what South Africa is doing. They are taking away land, theyre confiscating land and actually, they are doing things that are perhaps far worse than that," says Trump.