South Africa relationship needs a rethink. But the Trump administration’s approach is only making a bad situation worse.

United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Friday stopping aid to South Africa. The only substantial aid we get from the US is health funding, including 17% of our HIV programme.

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of apartheid but has angered critics.