President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk after the South African-born billionaire joined President Donald Trump in criticizing the country’s new land-expropriation law.

South Africa is courting investment from Elon Musk, the world's richest man, the presidency said on Wednesday, after he accused the government of his birth country of racist laws. The conversation this week followed accusations by Musk on his social media platform X that Ramaphosa's government had "openly racist ownership laws".

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has spoken with Elon Musk to discuss “issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa,” according to a statement shared on Tuesday (Feb. 4). “In the process,