*Trump threatens aid cuts to SA over land* Donald Trump wants to cut US aid to South Africa because it is “confiscating land” and mistreating “certain classes of people.” American aid to SA is currently over $450 million a year. The US programme PEPFAR funds 17% of SA's HIV/AIDS spending. In his first term, Trump repeated discredited claims of large scale killings of white farmers. His ally, Elon Musk, born in SA, has echoed right-wing claims of a “white genocide.” SA recently enacted the Land Expropriation Act, allowing land seizure without compensation, but only when it is deemed “just and equitable,” such as for unused land or for public safety concerns.