South Africa Ramaphosa to meet Trump in the White House: NPR

Johannesburg – The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet Donald Trump in the White House today in order to reset the relationship between the two countries after the US President's constant attacks.

The US administration has repeatedly beaten Pretoria for what she mistakenly claimed, is the systematic persecution of White African farmers – And the South African side has repeatedly tried to correct Washington.

Without success. The list of complaints from the Trump government with South Africa is the nightmare of a diplomat. Trump cut the help for the country in February. The US government is also angry that Pretoria – a company of Palestinian allies – has brought Israel to the International Court of Justice in Den Haag in Gaza because of its war.

Many South Africans will observe today's meetings, especially after Trump's television hostility to the Ukrainian guide has been broadcast Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the oval office At the beginning of this year, headlines made the headlines worldwide.

Ramaphosa wants to use the meeting Just put Trump With regard to the racial relationships in South Africa, Trump has repeated a right conspiracy theory that a “white genocide” and the politics of its government takes place in the country.

Will Trump listen to this time? Pretoria has to try it out because an important free trade agreement depends on other economic concerns.

Nelson Mandela's main trial leader

Ramaphosa is an experienced diplomat who, as one of the main negotiators in the conversations that ended the apartheid, played a central role and led to the historical choice of Nelson Mandela to the first black president in South Africa. At the beginning of this year, the South African leader tried to enchant Trump by offering a turn in November at the G20 summit in Johannesburg.

However, Ramaphosa was unable to hide his frustration after 59 White Africa's South Africans, who had granted the refugee status by the Trump administration in the United States, was granted in the United States.

Ramaphosa said that the minority does not persecute the minority, the Africans who went for the United States were simply white people who did not want to live among the black majority.

“We are the only country on the continent on which the colonizers stayed, and we never drove them out of our country,” he emphasized after Trump repeated a right conspiracy theory that there was a “genocide” of white in South Africa.

Both Trump and Foreign Minister Marco Rubio have accused the government of doing “terrible things” and developing land without compensation that has not happened.

On Tuesday, in a performance in front of the Senate Committee on Exterior Relationships, Rubio was grilled By Senator Tim Kaine, D-VA.

Rubio repeated the unfounded claims of the administration: “They live in a country where farms are admitted and country is racist.”

Elon Muschus – the local critic

The South Africa of Trump, Elon Musk, also criticized the South African government. He has beaten up the country's positive action laws that prevent his Starlink satellite company from entering the market. On Tuesday, reports indicate that Ramaphosa could offer the Tesla billionaire a kind of contract before his meeting of the White House.

The Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, who is white and part of the South African delegation, said that he would contribute to “the securing of trade relationships … preferred trade agreements … in our economy. The loss of these advantages would be catastrophic.”

It is possible that the South Africans will take a transaction degree at the meeting. The country is rich in minerals such as Platinum and Washington could see the advantage that they counteract China's interests in the country.

A sanguine South African public

The upcoming meeting in Washington dominates the South African media, with the local newspaper leading the Sunday Times via the weekend reading “In the mouth of the Trump hell.” A sketch of recognized South African Political cartoonist, Zapiro, showed a nervous looking ramaphosa that went into the “white diploma house”.

On the streets of Johannesburg this week, NPR spoke to South Africans of all breeds who said they wished Ramaphosa well.

“Absolutely no white genocide happens,” said 36-year-old white South African Jovana Korac. In fact, she said: “The whole world is absolutely horrified by what happens in America – from civil rights to the rights of women.”

When asked what Ramaphosa Trump should say, Siya Ralo, a 42-year-old Black Barista, is Stumpf and said: “South African affairs said.”

When asked if he fears that Ramaphosa could get the same treatment as Zelensky, Ralo said: “I hope it doesn't happen and I know that Ramaphposa is a great strategist and he has backbone. I think he will earn Trump's respect.”

Another Cafe-Goer, Ernest Motsi, a 29-year-old fashion designer, said NPR, Ramaphosa should try to “find” with Trump if he could, but if not “we are a very resilient people, whatever we have from the USA, we will survive.”

If everything else fails, there is always a round golf.