Nigeria, Feb. 3 -- President Donald Trump has said he would be cutting off all future funding to South Africa due to poor treatment of "certain classes of people."

He said this on Sunday in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform.

The American leader claimed that South Africa is seizing land and mistreating some of its citizens without concerns about the violations of their rights.

"The United States won't stand for it, we will act," he said.

Although Mr Trump did not explicitly say so, he is believed to be defending White South Africans, some of whom have alleged that the South African policy is unfair to them.

In South Africa, one of the legacies of the Apartheid system is a profound inequality in land ownership.

White S...