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President Donald Trump says President Cyril Ramaphosa will be coming to see him next week.

This crucial face-to-face meeting is likely to be tense, and the outcome critical for the future of South Africa-US relations, which have hit rock bottom.

Trump announced Ramaphosa’s visit during a press conference in Washington, which covered a wide range of subjects, including what he called the “genocide” he claimed was being conducted against white Afrikaners. This was why the US had offered them citizenship, he said. Forty-nine Afrikaner “refugees” were due to arrive in Washington on Monday afternoon, to make the US their new home.

“Now the South African leadership is coming to see me, I understand sometime next week,” Trump said.

Earlier on Monday, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola said at a media briefing that planning for a working visit by Ramaphosa to the US had reached a “very advanced stage”.

The meeting between the two presidents is likely to be fraught as relations have been rocked by a series of hostile executive orders and statements from Trump and his government, terminating US aid, imposing huge import tariffs, expelling SA’s ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool and otherwise throwing economic and political relations into turmoil.

Trump has attacked South Africa for a range of foreign policy decisions, mainly for taking Israel to the International Court of Justice for alleged genocide in Gaza, but also for alleged genocide against white Afrikaners.


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At the press conference on Monday, Trump was asked why he was creating an expedited path into the US for Afrikaners while he had halted virtually all refugee issions for people suffering famine and war, like those from Sudan and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

“Because they’re being killed and we don’t want to see people being killed,” he replied.

“It’s a genocide taking place,” he added, repeating accusations by his officials.

“Farmers are being killed. They happen to be white. But whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me. But white farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa.

“And so we’ve essentially extended citizenship to those people to escape from that violence and come here.”

TRUMP TO SNUB G20 SUMMIT IN SA?

He said that he didn’t know how he could attend the G20 summit, which SA is hosting in Johannesburg in November, “unless that situation is taken care of”.

As Lamola and others have explained, there is no evidence that white farmers are being singled out for murder. Trump’s accusations that their land is being confiscated have evidently been prompted by the recent age of the Expropriation Act, which allows the government to expropriate land without compensation in some circumstances. But the Act has not so far been used.


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AVOIDING HUMILIATION, STANDING HIS GROUND

International expert, Porf. Bheki Mngomezulu, says he is concerned for President Cyril Ramaphosa ahead of his meeting with his United States (US) counterpart, Donald Trump.

The SA government dismissed the claims as misinformation.

Mngomezulu says Ramaphosa should stand his ground as Trump is expected to be armed with lots of false information.


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He says, “In our own context, our President was quick to respond to issues that pertained the American politics where the President of America had made comments in the media.”

“If our President doesn’t contain himself, we might see a worse situation than we saw when President Trump hosted President Zelenskyy.
So therefore, I would maybe suggest that the advisors of the President and the President himself go there having well prepared himself for any eventuality, because President Trump has a way of making sure that he ridicules his counterparts from other countries.” Mngomezulu adds.

Can't wait for the showdown

Trump will definitely try to bully and belittle him. He should better be prepared.

SadiqBabaSani:
Can't wait for the showdown

Me too. My bet is Ramaphosa will take the Mark Carney polite but stern approach instead of Zelenskyy's. But the redneck pack of wolves will definitely gang up on him as per orders from Elon Musk.

Let's wait for the testy encounter

Why don't reverse be the case...Trump visiting SA?
The whole thing is sounding as if, it is a free ticket to heaven!

He should just to say "thank you" as that may reduce the Zelenski treatment.