Policy poses enormous risks

There are also opportunities to deal with other concerns

- Marizka Coetzer

It will be a tragedy if funding from the United States is terminated because of a misunderstanding, according to DA leader John Steenhuisen.

He said yesterday South Africa received $453 million in funding last year under the US President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief programme, with a projected $439 million (about R8.2 billion) allocated for 2025.

Steenhuisen said it was not true that the Expropriation Act allows land to be seized by the state arbitrarily and it does require fair compensation for legitimate expropriations in terms of Section 25 of the constitution.