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Ramaphosa survives Trump ambush over “white genocide”

Pay attention: “Turn the light off” -how the Trump -Ramaphosa meeting took an unexpected turn

Donald Trump has proven to be the political Rottweiler of the right-wing African groups and led her fight against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

They quickly celebrated the ambush of the US President of Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, whereby the solidarity movement, which had driven on tour to the USA to put the Trump administration, welcomed the fact that South Africa's “enormous problems were put on the international stage”.

Ernst Roets, a leading personality of the African right, showed his admiration for the US President.

“Donald Trump wrote history today,” he said in a post on X, before thanking him for showing videos of the opposition politician Julius Malema of Firebrand, “they shoot the Buren (Africans). Shoot the farmers and newspaper headings of the killing of white farmers.

Jaco Kleynhan's Solidarity continued and said Trump deserved a Nobel Prize to “bring the Farm's murder crisis to the international agenda”.

But in order to show the political columnist of the African political columnist Pieter du toit the ambush that “months and years of exaggeration, exaggeration and misinformation were locked up by a number of South African activists into the American legal ecosystem”, had hit his brand “.

AFP/Getty Images South Afrias President Cyril Ramaphosa, in red tie and gray suit, gestured with his hand and smiles outside the White House between the USA and South African flags - May 21, 2025.AFP/Getty Images

Cyril Ramaphosa remained calm and brought his delegation to counteract Trump's demands of white persecution

Like many South Africans, he praised Ramaphosa for his measured handling of the encounter in the White House and smiled when Trump frowned.

But many people are angry with the right-wing groups and said they showed a lack of patriotism by using the Trump government to take a tough line against the country.

Such critics indicate the fact that South Africa has a government of national unity – which consists of 10 parties from all of the racial and ideological gap to solve the countless problems of the country, from the high crime that affect all breeds and classes up to an unemployment rate of 32%, whereby black people are most struggling to find jobs.

For most South Africans, the “Rainbow Nation” was seen in the White House and hired a uniform against Trump.

The government delegation included John Steenhuisen, the most high -ranking white politician in South Africa – the Minister of Agriculture, who leads the second largest party in South Africa, the Democratic Alliance (DA).

He admitted that South Africa had a “real security problem” and added that it should “need great efforts to achieve it”.

“It will require more police resources,” he said.

But he dismissed the view that most white farmers fled: “Certainly, the majority of commercial and small farmers in South Africa really want to stay in South Africa and get it going.”

Trump's video strengthened the role of the opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (Eff) party in South African politics by showing the leader who sings the “Shoot the Boer” song.

The party is committed to the nationalization of land, and Malema indulges in singing the song with his political rallies – and Trump wanted to know why no measures had been taken against him.

The song was once an anti-apartheid anthem, and African lobby groups tried to banish it. However, the South Africa's highest court of appeal has decided that a “reasonably well informed person” would understand that the words, if “protest songs are also sung by politicians, should not be literally understood or the gesture of shooting are understood as a call or violence.

Instead, the song was a “provocative way” to improve the political agenda of the Eff – namely “country and economic injustice”.

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The trade unionist Zingiswa Losi (L) agreed with other South Africans in the Oval Office

Ramaphosa pointed out Trump that South Africa was a democracy – and while the government was completely against what Malema does, the Eff had the right to exist according to the constitution.

The Eff fell to fourth place in the parliamentary elections of last year. Ramaphosa refused to give Malema political oxygen by making a deal with him to found a coalition government after the survey did not produce a direct winner.

Steenhuisen told Trump that the government that stands for a free market economy had joined the government to keep the Eff away and to solve the problems of South Africa.

“This government that works together needs the support of our allies around the world so that we can strengthen our hands, expand our economy and close the door for these rebels forever [Malema] Coming through the doors of union buildings [the seat of government]”, he said.

“To watch uncomfortably”

Steenhuisen and Ramaphosa hold the middle ground in the South African politician and the Eff as well as the ex-president Jacob Zumas Umkhonto Wesizwe (spear of the nation) are on the extremes.

Ramaphosa promised to master himself for unity and referred to the name of the anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela-Das Symbol of Race Reconciliation in South Africa after the end of the rule of the white minority in 1994.

But some Africans feel that they no longer live in South Africa, and Trump offered them the refugee status. Almost 60 of them were relocated in the USA.

Trump gave the right climb a thrust, with some of them gathered in February in February in the capital of South Africa, Pretoria, with posters with the inscription “Make South Africa” ​​again – an adaptation of Trump's “Make America Great Again”.

The South African Minister of District Mwanele Nyhontso admitted that the meeting in the Oval Office was “unpleasant to observe”.

“There is no genocide in South Africa … in South Africa there are crimes in other countries and this crime affects many people,” he told the BBC newshop program.

Nyhontso applauded Ramaphosa for maintaining his serenity instead of trumping trump when he drove him over with blazing weapons.

AFP/Getty Images police officer in the South African city of Cape Town order men to put their hands against a wall so that they can be searched and interviewed - June 2020.AFP/Getty Images

South African billionaire Johann Rupert told Trump that those who live in the townships in Cape Town

Some also praised the South African President for his tactics and brought famous African golfer to the meeting to defuse the tensions.

When Ernie Els was invited to talk, he took out his South African passport to prove his patriotism – and spoke of his respect for Mandela after he had managed to unite the country at the end of apartheid – but said he wanted to see South Africa with the help of America.

Retief Goosen might add more fuel to the fire and spoke of how difficult it was for his brother to manage outside the northern city of Polokwane – and explained how he was exposed to a “constant struggle” with people who tried to “burn down the farm and chase away”.

Although he said that despite their fear of crimes, “the boys live a big life, despite what's going on”.

The billionaire businessman Johann Rupert, also an African, pointed out that the highest murder rate in South Africa was in the townships Cape Town, where most residents are black or colored – as are known in South Africa – and are delivered in South Africa.

While Zingiswa Losi, President of the largest union of South Africa, Trump said about the devastating situation in rural areas where the black majority is.

“You will see that women, older people, are raped, killed, murdered,” she said.

She asked the delegations to solve the problem through trade – and to create employment.

“The problem in South Africa, it's not necessarily about breed, but it's about crimes.”

It is a feeling with which most South Africans would agree with.

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