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.

Elon Musk is reconnecting with his country of birth. In recent weeks, he has rustled up a global right-wing panic over South Africa’s land ownership laws and affirmative action policies, culminating in Donald Trump issuing an executive order ending the United States’ financial assistance to South Africa and welcoming ethnic Afrikaners,

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Elon Musk “on issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa,” the presidency announced on Tuesday.

When they were hit this week by a Donald Trump social media grenade, panicked South African officials turned to an unconventional diplomatic back channel.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump said he will cut all funding to South Africa over what he called a human rights violation, a move that reflects Elon Musk’s repeated and false claims over the years that authorities in his country of birth are anti-white and even encouraging the killing of white people.

President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke to Musk after Trump said he would suspend aid to the country over its land reform policy.

President Trump has ordered a freeze on all foreign aid to South Africa in an executive order he signed Friday, claiming that a new land reform law amounts to “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has spoken with Elon Musk to discuss “issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa,” according to a statement shared on Tuesday (Feb. 4). “In the process,

Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. aid to South Africa, which provided for U.S. resettlement of some "victims of racial discrimination."

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday promoting the resettlement of a portion of South Africa's white minority known as Afrikaners to the United States, but groups representing them made it clear on Saturday that they aren't going anywhere.

U.S. President Donald Trump's offer to rehouse white South Africans as refugees fleeing persecution may not spur quite the rush he anticipates, as even right-wing white lobby groups want to push back against a law that could expropriate white-owned farmland.