Another area identified by Mr Trump is property rights. In a move that America’s president seems to have conflated with actual land seizures, on January 23rd Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart, signed the Expropriation Act, which gives the state new powers to expropriate property in the “public interest”.

Thandiwe Mhlambi talks to Christiane Amanpour about how USAID has bettered her life, and what life may be like without it.

South Africa's rand was stable in volatile trade on Thursday, as financial markets awaited "reciprocal tariffs" that U.S. President Donald Trump said he planned to unveil later in the day. At 1532 GMT,