South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has reacted to US President Donald Trump's tweet on South African land reform .

In a media briefing in Johannesburg, Mr Malema said:

Donald Trump is not saying anything new we haven’t heard from white people. I don’t have time for nonsense. I expected it."

He said it was not just the US that would criticise expropriation of land without compensation.

Britain will come for us and EU will come for us. For everything good comes the pain before.

Donald Trump hasn’t said anything painful. The pain is still to come. They will kill us for this."

On the allegation that white farmers are being killed in South Africa, he said: "There’s no white genocide here. They are killing black people in the US."

“There’s no white genocide here. It’s absolute rubbish to say there’s white genocide. There’s black genocide in the USA. They’re killing black people in the USA.”

Mr Malema's party has been pushing hard for land reform - and now the ruling African National Congress (ANC) is pushing ahead with lands to expropriate land without compensation.

But Mr Malema hinted that President Cyril Ramaphosa's heart wasn't in it, saying it was difficult to explain a policy one didn't believe in.