President Donald Trump’s accusations that white farmers in his country were being slain and “persecuted” caused a meeting that was supposed to defuse tensions between the US and South Africa to go awry instead.
President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the White House on Wednesday to re-establish ties between the two nations, one week after the United States granted refuge to around 60 Afrikaners, a decision that infuriated South Africa.
Instead, Trump’s widely refuted accusations of a “white genocide” in South Africa startled Ramaphosa at a televised news conference. During a rally, he exhibited a film of an exhibit that showed several crosses line a road, which he said were the graves of white farmers who had been slain.
Trump claimed to be unaware of the location of the filming in South Africa. Actually, the crosses are not cemeteries; instead, they seem to be from a protest in 2020 following the death of a farming couple in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. At the time, the organisers said that the display represented farmers who had been slaughtered throughout time.
The leader of South Africa emphasised that strengthening trade ties with the United States was his top goal before to Wednesday’s White House meeting. When the moratorium on Trump’s new import levies expires in July, South African goods to the US will be subject to a 30% duty. By inviting two well-known South African golfers and giving him a large book with pictures of his nation’s golf courses, Ramaphosa attempted to win Trump over during the encounter.
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