Trump to meet the South African President in the middle of the deterioration of relationships: NPR

Johannesburg – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will travel to Washington next week to meet President Trump in the White House on Wednesday. “

The visit comes as relationships between the The USA and South Africa are lowest Since the end of apartheid. Trump has repeatedly claimed that in South Africa “terrible things happen” and Africans invited to apply for refugee status in the USA on Monday in the USA 59 white South Africans Anyone who had been approved arrived in Washington with a state -run state aircraft.

The explanation of the Ramaphosa office states that a visit to the next week “is a platform for the reset of strategic relationships between the two countries”.

In February, Trump cut all help to South Africa in an executive regulation – a long -time ally of the United States. In the command, the fact that the South African government – a firm supporter of the Palestinians – cited – Designed Israel of the genocide For her war against Hamas in Gaza, which submitted a lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in the Hague. It was also claimed without evidence that white South African Dutch descent, known as Africans, was pursued because of their breed.

refugee The Trump administration noticed non -profit organizations gave the group who arrived on Monday an extraordinary reception that was normally given refugees-and high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to welcome them. The Africans, including children, received small American flags and were informed by deputy foreign ministers Chris Landau that “it is an honor to have them here.”

Landau moved parallels to the arrival of the Africans in “The Land of the Free” and the experience of his own family from Nazi Germany.

The spectacle left many South Africans in disbelief at home and saw Ramaphosa his strongest comments on this matter. He said the Africans group were “cowards” because they simply didn't want to live in the new South Africa that has the rule of Black Majority. He said many longed for the old days of apartheid.

He dismissed the claims of Trump and his advisor Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, that Africans have confiscated their country or are treated unjust and noticed: “We are the only country on the continent in which the colonizers stayed and we never drove them out of our country.”

Ramaphosa said he spoke to Trump about the relocations on the phone and tried to clarify the problem. The US leader got “the wrong end of the stick”.

Next week he has the chance to reorganize his argument personally.

Despite experts and data that contradict Trump's claims about South Africa, the US government continued its Broadsids against Pretoria, including the refusal to take part in G20 events that the country is organizing this year as the current president of the group. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio In addition, the new ambassador from South Africa has thrown out At the beginning of this year – accused him of being a “politician with racial bait” and hate Donald Trump.

Ramaphosa is an experienced negotiator who was instrumental in the talks who recorded the transition from apartheid to democracy in the 1990s. However, some South Africans went to social media that are concerned that Trump could intend to humiliate him, and noticed what was now infamous Oval Office meet with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy At the beginning of this year.