South African President Cyril Ramaphosa responded on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off aid over the alleged mistreatment of White farmers, denying Trump’s claim that authorities were “confiscating land.

President Trump says he will cut all funding to South Africa and has launched an investigation of the country's policies, including a new land expropriation law.

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