Cyril Ramaphosa Responds to Trump’s Assertion of Afrikaner Genocide

Despite jokes and Ramaphosa’s attempts to defuse the situation, President Donald Trump hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday for a somewhat tense meeting. Trump had accused the country’s government of permitting a “genocide” against white Afrikaner farmers, a charge that even many of those farmers deny. To mend his nation’s strained ties with the United States since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation in 1994, Ramaphosa lobbied for the meeting with Trump.

However, Trump expressed dissatisfaction, claiming that the matter had been the subject of stories and films. He ordered his employees to turn out the lights in the Oval Office and switch on a television carried into the space to show a film. “It’s a terrible sight,” mentioned Trump. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

The film featured snippets of a radical minority party leader singing “Shoot the Boer,” an anti-apartheid hymn that the government has distanced itself from. Ramaphosa left the White House after lunch with Trump after the altercation in the Oval Office. When asked about the meeting after leaving, the South African president said it went “very well.

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