The duty-free access to the US provided by AGOA has benefited a number of sectors, particularly South Africa’s automobile industry. Motor vehicles make up around a fifth of South Africa’s exports to the US and are worth an estimated $1.9 billion, putting them only behind precious metals.

Another area identified by Mr Trump is property rights. In a move that America’s president seems to have conflated with actual land seizures, on January 23rd Cyril Ramaphosa, his South African counterpart, signed the Expropriation Act, which gives the state new powers to expropriate property in the “public interest”.

South Africa's foreign minister Ronald Lamola told Reuters on Monday that the United States had not responded to attempts to "formally engage" after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order cutting off aid to South Africa.

Muhsin Hendricks was credited by some as being the world’s first openly gay imam and helped Muslims reconcile their faith with their sexual orientation.

The death of South African activist Muhsin Hendricks, known as the world’s first openly gay Imam, has left his family and friends reeling in shock. This is after he was brutally murdered on Saturday in the country’s Eastern Cape province.