President Cyril Ramaphosa defended South Africa's land policy on Monday after Donald Trump's threat to cut off funding because of what he said were land confiscations. Trump said the previous day, without citing evidence,

U.S. President Donald Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation of the country’s polices, claiming a “massive” human rights violation is happening over a new land expropriation law.

Trump’s comments waded into a sensitive racial issue and deepened already sharp divisions between the U.S. and South Africa