The South African President says that the Trump meeting is not so dramatic

Johannesburg (AP) – The Feeling in South Africa in front of his guide Meeting with the US President Donald Trump In the White House on Wednesday there was fear and fear.

“In the mouth of the Trump -Hölle” a newspaper heading described its mission.

The South Africans were worried President Cyril Ramaphosa Supported the kind of public that Trump and Vice President JD Vance beat up, Exhibited from the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy Before the world's media three months ago.

But after he was confronted by Trump with unfounded allegations that there are widespread murders of white farmers in South Africa – and tailor -made to watch a video of A South African marginal politician Ramaphosa repeated a singing that refers to the murder of white farmers – Ramaphosa seemed to believe that the Oval Office meeting was not so dramatic.

“They wanted to see drama and something big,” said Ramaphosa afterwards. “I'm sorry that we have disappointed you a little.”

Ramaphosa is known in his home country as a quiet, measured politician who is hardly emotional.

However, in some of the toughest political negotiations with which his country was ever confronted, he was in some of the toughest political negotiations. Ramaphosa was the chief negotiator of the African National Congress Party during the talks in the early nineties who ended the end Apartheid system of white minority rule This had forced the racial regulation on South Africans for almost half a century.

After the apartheid, some of them regarded Nelson Mandela as South African President as a logical successor. However, he missed politics more than a decade later and became president in 2018.

Ramaphosa went to the meeting with Trump to correct what he said that the United States in South Africa were mishastists – and to negotiate critical new trade agreements.

Many South Africans did not want him to go to the headquarters of an administration who raised serious and false allegations against their country, including the government of Ramaphosa, that white farmers can be routinely killed in what Trump repeatedly referred to as “genocide”.

“To be honest, I don't understand why Ramaphosa is actually in the United States when Trump made it clear how he feels about South Africa,” said student Dumisani Mnisi in Johannesburg.

Ramaphosa's spokesman said that the video, the newspaper sections of Farmm Order that Trump had created, and the general confrontation in the Oval Office provided an “orchestrated show for the cameras”, and the actual business was then the meeting with closed doors.

Ramaphosa said he was pleased after this meeting and listed what he took home as the success of Washington.

He said said it would boycott. South Africa will be handed over to the Rotending G20 presidency to the United States next year. Ramaphosa said he believed that he had started to change Trump's opinion about South Africa, even though he admitted that this would probably be “a process”.

Ramaphosa said that the talks had started over several trade and cooperation areas.

And he also said that the South African delegation received Souvenirs to mark their visit to the White House, and he and Trump had exchanged gifts. They gave each other a book.

“That was good,” said Ramaphosa.

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