South Africa's Ambassador to the United States says the land issue is a pretext for further engagement with the Trump administration. Pretoria's envoy, Ebrahim Rasool was reacting to Trump utterings that sought to criticize South Africa's policy on land expropriation. Trump threatened all future funding from the United States to South Africa. Speaking to SABCNews, Rasool says their approach is to treat the remarks as a social media post and not a formal policy directed at South Africa.For more, Peter Ndoro spoke to Economist and Chairman of the Impact Group, Chris Hart and  Director at African Centre for the Study of the United States, Prof. Christopher Isike....

<p><br>South Africa's Ambassador to the United States says the land issue is a pretext for further engagement with the Trump administration. Pretoria's envoy, Ebrahim Rasool was reacting to Trump utterings that sought to criticize South Africa's policy on land expropriation. Trump threatened all future funding from the United States to South Africa. Speaking to SABCNews, Rasool says their approach is to treat the remarks as a social media post and not a formal policy directed at South Africa.For more, Peter Ndoro spoke to Economist and Chairman of the Impact Group, Chris Hart and &nbsp;Director at African Centre for the Study of the United States, Prof. Christopher Isike....</p>