SA has condemned as "propaganda" claims by Donald Trump that a new law would enable Pretoria to expropriate land from white farmers.

President Trump has ordered a freeze on all foreign aid to South Africa in an executive order he signed Friday, claiming that a new land reform law amounts to “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.

A legal challenge against a controversial new land seizure law at the centre of a row with US President Donald Trump has been filed by the Democratic Alliance (DA), which is part of South Africa's coalition government. The Expropriation Act allows for private land to be seized by the government without compensation in certain cases.

Groups representing some of South Africa’s white minority reject President Trump offer of refugee status and resettlement in the United States.

Reaction comes after US President Trump froze aid to Pretoria, citing expropriation law, as well as South Africa's genocide case against Israel - Anadolu Ajansı

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law which allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities - namely White farmers - without compensation,

The world underestimated how extreme Donald Trump’s delusions of grandeur are. His authoritarian domestic actions and blatant extortion and disregard for other countries’ sovereignty as demonstrated in his first two weeks as president are still going to upend the world.

We have not, or will not, call for sanctions against South Africa or that funds for vulnerable people be cut off by the US government,' say Afrikaner community leaders - Anadolu Ajansı

South Africa is responding to an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying the move to freeze American aid "lacks factual accuracy."

Trump’s executive order cutting aid and offering refugee status to South Africa’s Afrikaner farmers has caused a stir in the African country after passage of a controversial land bill.

Political analyst Justice Malala speaks to CNN’s Eleni Giokos about Donald Trump’s decision to stop aid to South Africa and the best path forward to resolve this escalating standoff.