内容摘要：In a statement, Boxall's victim said that she felt that she had "lost her freedom", adding: "I struggle to understand the level of violence he used against me and I feel lucky to be alive."

In a statement, Boxall's victim said that she felt that she had "lost her freedom", adding: "I struggle to understand the level of violence he used against me and I feel lucky to be alive."

The world of US foreign assistance had been upended in a matter of days, said Dr Joia Mukherjee, an infectious diseases doctor from Harvard Medical School and the charity Partners In Health who helped advise on the creation of Pepfar."It's taking 20 years of goodwill and turning it into an instrument of terror, when people feel like if they touch the drugs, if they see a patient, they might get fired," she said.

As criticism mounted, on Wednesday, the State Department said the 90-day pause and review of foreign aid was "already paying dividends" to the US and its people."We are rooting out waste. We are blocking woke programs. And we are exposing activities that run contrary to our national interests. None of this would be possible if these programs remained on autopilot," it said.Explaining why it was necessary to order a temporary suspension for all projects, rather than a more targeted approach, the State Department said: "It is impossible to evaluate programs on autopilot because the participants – both inside and outside of government – have little to no incentive to share programmatic-level details so long as the dollars continue to flow."

It added: "A temporary pause, with commonsense waivers for truly life-threatening situations, is the only way to scrutinize and prevent waste."Thousands of kilometres away, in the Ugandan town of Masindi, Teddy Ruge is still grappling with the fall-out. He was told to "stop work" on Monday night, and the waivers given so far don't seem to allow him to restart his US government-funded farming project.

Mr Ruge employs small-plot farmers who grow a nutrient rich leaf called Moringa. The plant is sold to North America and Europe where it is used to fortify bread and other foods.

His farmers rely on a wage of around $70 per month, their incomes bolsted by a yearly grant of around $250,000 from USAID.The ANC and EFF together have 198 seats - just short of the 201 seats needed for a parliamentary majority, so a smaller party would have to be brought into a coalition.

Or they could team up with Mr Zuma's MK, which also supports land expropriation, and says there is a need to distribute farmland on an "equal basis among the farming population".But to change the constitution, a two-thirds majority is needed and again the ANC, EFF and MK fall just short of the 267 seats needed - they have 256 seats between them.

While the ANC is opposed to constitutional amendments, it accepts that the current land-ownership patterns need to be tackled.In an interview with South Africa's Sunday Times newspaper, former President Kgalema Motlanthe, a close ally of Mr Ramaphosa, said the "land question" was a "source of national grievance".