Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 developed and developing nations have gathered in South Africa for a two-day meeting.

In mid-February 2025, posts on social media sites like Facebook (archived here) alleged that the nation of South Africa had announced a ban on all United States-based businesses there and was halting all mining exports to the U.

AfriForum's US lobbying spreads misinformation to undermine South Africa's democracy, amounting to sedition - if not treason.

Lamola said South Africa was setting up bilateral meetings to shore up support with a number of countries, including China. " (China said) that they are there in solidarity with us, and they stand ready to pledge support in terms of whatever trade relations and challenges that they can," the minister said.

South Africa has neither suspended U.S. businesses from operating in the country nor stopped exporting minerals to the U.S., contrary to a claim made online in response to Washington’s decision to cut aid.

Earlier this year, South African lawmakers passed the Expropriation Without Compensation Act. This is part of their country’s effort to address the injustices of the past. During the years of white minority rule, black South Africans were dispossessed of their land, some even forcibly relocated to areas far from business districts.

But US aid, mostly for HIV in South Africa, and for food and health care in other African countries, has been very beneficial for these countries, as well as the US and the world. The withdrawal of this aid by President Donald Trump will damage not only Africa but the United States too.

South Africa has more people living with HIV than any other country, and US President Donald Trump’s aid freeze has hit patients hard – as well as researchers, who were close to a breakthrough in

Trump singled out a law that President Cyril Ramaphosa signed last month enabling land expropriation - in rare cases without compensation - after decades of voluntary purchases barely dented inequalities between a white minority who own 75% of freehold land and majority Blacks with 4%.

Four United States of America congressmen wrote to President Donald Trump, asking him to punish South Africa with diplomatic sanctions. SA reacted.

Among other African countries, Nigeria, South Africa, and Ghana are not listed in the United States of America’s (USA) new visa

To understand what the land reform bill is really about, and why it has become so central to far-right activists around the world, I recently spoke by phone with William Shoki, the editor of Africa Is a Country,