#Ramaphosa attempted to correct #Trump, but mostly got talked over. He explained the videos of opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called "kill the boer" – which means farmer or Afrikaner – did not represent government policy.

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In fact, Malema is a populist who was expelled from #Ramaphosa's African National Congress. His Economic Freedom Fighters party won just 7% of the vote at national elections last year. Ramaophosa's Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, who is white, also tried to explain the #facts for #Trump. As did #SouthAfrica's richest man & a friend of Ramaphosa's, Johann Rupert, who is also white.

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It was exactly what South Africans had been dreading, especially after #Trump's televised #hostility towards Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr #Zelensky in the Oval Office earlier this year made headlines around the world.

The US admin has repeatedly slammed #Pretoria for what it FALSELY claims is the systematic persecution of #white #Afrikaner farmers – & the South African side has repeatedly tried to correct Washington. To no avail.

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The list of the #Trump admin's grievances w/ #SouthAfrica are any diplomat's nightmare. Trump cut #aid to the country in Feb, his top ofcls have snubbed #G20 events South Africa is hosting this year & the US expelled South Africa's ambassador. The US admin is also angry that #Pretoria—a firm #Palestinian ally—has taken #Israel to the International Court of Justice #ICJ in The Hague over its war in #Gaza.

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#Ramaphosa had wanted to use the meeting to set #Trump straight regarding race relations in #SouthAfrica — Trump has repeated #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories that there is a "white genocide" happening in the country — & his government's policies.

Will Trump listen this time? #Pretoria has to try, because a vital free #trade agreement hangs in the balance amid other #economic concerns.

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…Despite his conciliatory nature, however, even #Ramaphosa wasn't able to hide his
frustration after 59 #white #Afrikaans South Africans who were granted *#refugee* status by the #Trump admin arrived in the #US last week.

Ramaphosa said given that there is no persecution of the minority group, the #Afrikaners who left for the US were simply white people who didn't want to live under #Black majority rule.

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"We're the only country on the continent where the colonizers came to stay & we have never driven them out of our country," #Ramaphosa pointed out, after #Trump repeated #FarRight #ConspiracyTheories about a "genocide" of whites in #SouthAfrica.

Both Trump & Secy of #State #MarcoRubio have accused the govt of doing "terrible things" & expropriating white-owned land w/o compensation—something that has NOT happened.

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#Trump's South African-born adviser [& fellow #WhiteSupremacist] #ElonMusk has also been highly critical of #SouthAfrica's govt. He has slammed the country's affirmative action laws, which he says prevent his #Starlink #satellite company from entering the market🎻. On Tues, reports suggested that #Ramaphosa might offer the #Tesla billionaire some kind of deal ahead of his White House meeting [don’t do it!].

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…The Washington meeting has been dominating South African media, with local newspaper The Sunday Times running a headline over the weekend reading "Into the Mouth of Trump Hell." A sketch by acclaimed South African political cartoonist Zapiro showed a nervous-looking #Ramaphosa heading into the "White Supremacy House."

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https://www.timeslive.co.za/sunday-times/news/politics/2025-05-18-into-the-mouth-of-trump-hell/

So freaking embarrassing. #Trump spouts unverified #ConspiracyTheories in meeting with #SouthAfrica President #Ramaphosa.

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