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.

President Donald Trump is offering white South African farmers and their families a “rapid pathway to Citizenship,” citing their “terrible” treatment by their government. The move will please his “first buddy” Elon Musk,

President Trump has offered an expedited pathway to U.S. citizenship to South African farmers, calling their treatment in the country "terrible" and citing property laws that impose "unjust racial discrimination" against white Afrikaner farmers.