Donald Trump has claimed South Africa is "confiscating" land and "treating certain classes of people very badly", announcing he is cutting off all future funding to the country pending an investigation. The US president's intervention into one of South Africa's most divisive issues was rebutted by the country's government and criticised by groups across its political spectrum. Land ownership in South Africa remains highly unequal, a legacy of white minority rule that governments have struggled to address since the first multi-racial elections in 1994. Efforts to redress this inequality have drawn criticism from conservatives globally, including the South African-born billionaire and close Trump ally Elon Musk,