South African Finance Minister Tito Mboweni says remarks by businessman Patrice Motsepe to US President Donald Trump were not representative of the South African government.

Motsepe has come under fire over his remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos where he told US President Donald Trump that Africa loved him.

This has invited the wrath of the opposition EFF who lashed at Motsepe for misrepresenting Africa to the US President.