The law Trump has taken issue with would make it easier for the government to expropriate land "in the public interest," in hopes of undoing some of the injustice of the apartheid era in which the government seized Black people's land and forced them to live in designated areas away from the white population.

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of apartheid but has prompted claims from critics that it discriminates against White farmers.

Critics claim Tesla boss’s business interests are dictating US foreign policy, leading Ramaphosa to use billionaire’s father as go-between