The eighth EU-South Africa summit will be held in Cape Town this week, with both sides seeking strategic and reliable partners in the wake of hostilities by the United States.

A contentious law that allows South Africa’s government to expropriate land has enraged the United States. Many fear that the African nation could now potentially lose some of its US trade privileges.

The president falsely claimed on social media that the South African government was confiscating farmland, echoing previous statements that the country was mistreating white people.

President Donald Trump swiped at "terrible" South Africa, said he was stopping all federal funding for the country, and invited its farmers to seek citizenship in the U.S. in a post on his Truth Social platform Friday morning.

There’s an escalating dispute between President Trump and South Africa over a new land policy that he says discriminates against the country’s white minority. On Truth Social Friday, Trump criticized what he called the “terrible” treatment of farmers and offered them a “rapid pathway” to U.