The Trump administration’s move to halt federal funding to SA — with widespread expectations of SA’s removal from preferential access to US markets — has not diminished the determination of this country’s political leaders to implement its transformation laws.

The recently enacted Expropriation Act and broad-based BEE legislation have been cited by US President Donald Trump, his SA-born adviser, Elon Musk, and influential Republican legislators as reasons behind halting funding to SA...

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