Solidarity Movement, a lobby group closely associated with AfriForum will go to Europe for a month, urging foreign powers to persuade the South African government to reconsider important reform policies, such as the Expropriation Act.

The group said that the G20 nations they will be visiting will be requested to participate in pressing the South African government to review 'discriminatory' laws. The organisation will endeavour to African countries next on their lobbying campaign.

"In Europe I will engage with the EU on trade issues and there are several European countries that are concerned about South Africa's land Expropriation Act, the Dutch, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria and Italy.

"I will within the next month or so visit some of these countries to engage with their governments to say they must strengthen their relations with South Africa, but that they must also make use of the G20 summit to put pressure on the South African government to review the whole issue of the Expropriation Act," said Solidarity leader, Jaco Kleynhans.

This comes as tensions mount over entities crossing borders and purportedly engaging other countries' leaders as state actors without the knowledge of the foreign ministry.

The Democratic Alliance (DA) also went to the US to address diplomatic tensions between South Africa and the administration of Donald Trump.

"Our objective is to act in our nation's interest. What we wanted to do was to find out from key legislative and policy makers in the US what they would consider a pathway towards the stabilisation of relations. We as the DA in the Government of National Unity (GNU) have been clear in terms of what our foreign policy looks like," the DA's Emma Powell said.

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) spokesperson Chrispin Phiri said that it is not accurate that the DA represented SA.

"The Constitution is very clear on where foreign policy resides. It's within the remit of the executive. It is not within the remits of Parliamentarians or opposition parties," added Phiri.

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