President Donald Trump signed an executive order to cut U.S. financial assistance to South Africa, the White House said on Friday, citing disapproval of its land policy and of its genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Washington's ally Israel.

A White Afrikaans rights group’s years of lobbying right-wing US politicians culminated in President Donald Trump on Friday falsely accusing South Africa of seeking to seize land from “ethnic minority Afrikaners” and withholding financial aid to the nation.

FILE - A man sits outside a closed clinic in Soweto, South Africa, Jan. 30, 2025. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Feb. 7, 2025, that will freeze aid to South Africa because of its effort to address wrongs of its racist apartheid era.