Why is Trump going after South Africa over land reforms?

Land ownership in South Africa has long been a contentious issue. Most private farmland is owned by white people three decades after apartheid.

A new Expropriation Act, signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa, was supposed to address longstanding calls for land reform. The law allows for the government to seize private land without compensation in some instances.

Though the bill had its opponents, one man has changed the scale of the discourse: Donald Trump. But why does the US President care about South African land reform, and what role is South African-born Elon Musk playing?

DW's Sertan Sanderson explains the issue in the latest episode of The Flip Side.