FT: Trump vows to stop US assistance to South Africa over land law

Key topics

• Trump vows to cut US aid to South Africa over land expropriation policies.
• South African rand falls 1.6% after Trump's Truth Social remarks.
• Expropriation bill aims to transfer a third of land to Black South Africans.

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By Felicia Schwartz in Washington and Monica Mark in Johannesburg

Rand falls after president singles out Brics nation over expropriation of properties

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