Praise and dismay in South Africa about the president's meeting with Trump | South Africa

MAll South Africans praised their President Cyril Ramaphosa for remaining calm when Donald Trump attacked him in the Oval Office with a video that pretended to support his false claims of a “genocide” against White African farmers.

Others asked why Ramaphosa, the minister, golfer and a billionaire brought up to go into what he knew, would probably be a trap.

Before the encounter broadcast on television, relationships between the USA and South Africa were in a Nadir. In February, Trump signed an executive regulation that shortened the help in South Africa and accused her, “unjust racial discrimination” against Africans who ruled the country during the apartheid that suppressed the non-white majority.

The order has set up a program with which Africans were brought to the United States as refugees. The first group arrived at the beginning of this month, while the United States blocked other refugees from war areas.

“There is crime in our country. People who are unfortunately killed by criminal activities are not only white people. The majority of them are black people,” said Ramaphosa to Trump, who came back: “The farmers are not black.”

Ramphosa later returned to Trump's split claims and said: “These are concerns about which we are willing to speak to them.”

“President Ramaphosa did well to maintain a quiet behavior, and he has well held up to the facts as possible,” the political journalist Pieter du toit told Reuters.

Some social media users noticed Ramaphosa when Trump's video contained the left opposition politician Julius Malema, who sang the controversial anti-apartheid song Kill the Buren (Buer, which means that the farmer also obtains Africa in Africa).

“Cyril cannot even contain laughter … Yhoooooooo Cupcake,” wrote a user on X with a popular nickname for South Africa, which was spreading for the first time in 2017 when it appeared in the leaked e -mails by alleged Lord of the then deputy president. (Ramaphosa admitted that he had an affair and suggested that the e -mails were moderate, but now answer the nickname.)

The video of the White House ended with an aerial view of white crosses that came out a rural road that said that Trump marked the graves of “over 1,000 white farmers”.

The crosses were actually built as a temporary protest after the murder of the white couple Glenn and Vida Rafferty on their farm in 2020.

Another picture that Trump presented as proof of a “white genocide” was actually a still video that was recorded in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

“These are all white farmers who are buried,” said Trump when he swung an expression with a picture of corpse bags that were lifted into a grave. On Thursday, however, Reuters reported that the picture was actually a report from a report from the agency on February 3, in which the consequences of the fights against the DRC Army and the M23 rebels supported by Rwanda were shown.

Almost 2,300 farmers, their families and workers have been killed in South Africa since 1990. According to the transvaal agricultural Union, a conservative, mainly African Farmers group, cited by AFP. Last year, the South African police recorded more than 26,000 murders. Experts say that the often fatal armed robberies do not appeal to people for their money and their valuables.

The presence of golfers Ernie Els and the repetition of Gooses sometimes seemed to heat Trump to South Africa, describing them as “friends”.

Many South Africans were less impressed.

Some marked that Els' comment “two mistakes no real” comment with the shortcomings of the democratic black governments seemed to compensate for, while others raised the eyebrows to him and thanked the USA for the support of the War regimmer of Apartheid with Angola. Goosen spoke about his brothers' constant struggle to prevent her farms from being adopted, even though he added that his family had a “big life” in South Africa.

At a press conference after the Oval Office's meeting, reporters questioned why the golfers had participated and whether they had previously been informed. Ramaphosa said there was no time and added: “It is what it is … These golfers are patriotic South Africans.”

Johann Rupert, the white founder of the luxury goods group Richemont, to which Cartier belongs, was praised by many South Africans for the fact that all races suffer from violent crimes.

However, the billionaire is also a lightning section that saw dissatisfaction with the scale inequality of the country with its inclusion in the delegation of some as surrender of the forces of racism and capitalism.

And it did not decide to inform South Africans, who are finely set to the racial dynamics that Trump Ramaphosa, although he repeatedly interrupted, did not speak about Rupert or the white golfers.