Trump cuts aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against Afrikaners

US president also offers asylum to Afrikaners and criticises law that allows land seizures without compensation in some circumstances

The US president, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa, accusing the country’s government of “unjust racial discrimination” against white Afrikaners and offering them asylum in the US.

The order criticised a law signed by the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, last month that allows for land to be expropriated with “nil compensation” in limited circumstances.

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