The Trump administration’s dismantling of USAID has put more than 8,000 health workers in South Africa’s national HIV program out of work.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to hold talks with his US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington on May 21 and hopes to ease a simmering diplomatic row between the two nations. Ramaphosa will visit the US from May 19 to 22 and meet Trump at the White House “to discuss bilateral,

South Africa's Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Thursday that the government had not secured any new funding yet for HIV after the U.S. cut aid, and denied reports that its HIV programme was badly affected.

South Africa had "expressed concern" to the United States after reports it will accept from next week the first white Afrikaners it had offered to resettle, the foreign ministry said Friday. The South African government had "expressed concerns with the information conveyed that the United States has commenced with processing alleged refugees from South Africa",

Its gaping trade deficit stems not from maliciously unequal trade but from the fact that garment manufacturing forms a significant part of its economy. Some 75 percent of the jeans, T-shirts and polo shirts its dozen-or-so factories pump out every year,

South Africa's rand edged up against a weaker dollar in early trade on Thursday, after President Cyril Ramaphosa's office confirmed his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump next week following days of speculation.