Seizing land would send South Africa down the wrong path - U.S

FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., August 22, 2018. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo

WASHINGTON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The United States warned South Africa on Thursday that seizing land without compensation risked sending the country down the wrong path, deepening a spat over Pretoria's efforts to fix a glaring racial disparity almost 25 years after the end of apartheid.

South Africa accused U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday of stoking racial divisions in a late-night tweet in which he said he had asked U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to study South African "land and farm seizures" and the "killing of farmers".