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South Africa's Ramaphosa visits Trump for high stick talks that could reset or worsen to tighten the connections



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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will conduct US President Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday in a meeting with high use of crucial conversations that could improve or behave that are already frosty relationships between nations.

Ramaphosa is confident that his visit could end a diplomatic feud, triggered the spout by Trump and heated up the displacement of his nation's ambassador to the United States.

There are also fears that the African nation may now lose some of its US trade privileges if the relationships between the two countries get angry.

Ramaphosa's journey comes just over a week after a group of 59 white South Africans arrived in the United States after granting the refugee status.

Trump and his ally Elon Musk, who was born and grew up in the country, claimed that the South Africans were pursued at home. On Tuesday, US Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said that it was in the US national interest to prioritize white South Africans for the resettlement of refugees, and explained to a hearing that they are “a small subgroup” that are “easier to veterinarian”.

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The Trump government sharply criticized an expropriation law that was issued in South Africa in South Africa at the beginning of this year. The law enables the government of South Africa to take land and, in some cases, not obliged to pay compensation.

Trump claimed that countries that belong to the South Africa of the whites, which are 72% of the country's agricultural country, were aimed at confiscation, and not examined claims that “a genocide takes place in South Africa”. He added that “white farmers are brutally killed” in the middle Reports on agricultural attacks.

Trump also disapproves the genocide in South Africa in front of the International Court of Justice against the US allied Israel.

Ramaphosa's office said that he would “discuss bilateral, regional and global questions” with the US President in the White House. Analysts say that the meeting could be a turning point for its enormous ties.

The United States is the second largest trading partner of South Africa, and the African nation best benefits from a US trade agreement that offers preferred duty-free access to US markets for justified Subsahara African nations.

As part of this agreement, South Africa is the most important agricultural exporter and exports two thirds of its agricultural goods to the USA. However, some US legislators want these services to be withdrawn if the trade agreement is checked this year.

The South African researcher Neo Letswalo describes the expected meeting as a “make-or-break” and one from Ramaphosa “Supreme Testicula”.

The South African leader is set up for a tight rope walk in the White House, he added and remembered a screaming match that broke out in the Oval Office between Trump, his Vice President JD Vance and the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the end of February.

“From Zelensky's meeting with Donald Trump and JD Vance, we know that the Oval Office is currently a difficult place for the next 5 years,” Letswalo, research assistant at the University of Johannesburg, told CNN.

He believes that “Ramaphosa would maintain his serenity to iron some of the misunderstandings that Trump's administrative officers have about South Africa”.

Other analysts such as Christopher Afoke Isike, professor of African politics and international relations at the University of Pretoria, believe that Ramaphosa can go through “when you consider that he is a businessman like President Trump”.

Ramaphosa plans to mitigate the soil with a potential license agreement for Starlink, a satellite internet service Ramaphosa's spokesman Vincent Magwenya, who belonged by Musk, said Reuters on Monday.

For LETSWALO, the crucial conversations between Trump and Ramaphosa could hit a wall if the White House makes expensive demands.

“A dealbreaker would be a request from Washington to Pretoria to get the state inclusion law or the Gaza case to continue the US SA relationship,” he said, adding: “It would be interesting to see how President Ramaphosa would be sovereignty and his statement not to” not be bullied by America “without the prerequisite for the proven relationship with the USA.

According to André Duvenhage, a political professor at South African Northwest University, this task could be one of the most demanding ramaphosa.

“This may be his biggest challenge in terms of everything he had to deal with in his term as President of the Republic of South Africa.”

Jennifer Hansler von CNN made the reporting.

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