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Trump Confronts S. African Leader
- President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at a May 2025 White House meeting over claims of violence against white farmers and land seizures in South Africa.
- Trump based his claims on unverified footage and asserted a white farmer genocide, while Ramaphosa disputed these allegations and emphasized the absence of land seizures and government policy against such acts.
- The meeting occurred amid ongoing trade talks aimed at resetting US-South African relations and following Trump’s suspension of aid and offering refugee status to about 59 white South Africans claiming persecution.
- Experts and South African officials rejected Trump’s accusations as baseless, noting high crime affects all races and that South Africa’s multiparty democracy protects minority freedoms, while Trump played videos of opposition figures chanting hostile slogans.
- The confrontation highlighted the lowest point in US-South African relations since apartheid ended in 1994 and underscored conflicting narratives on land rights, violence, and racial tensions in South Africa.
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Trump confronts S. African leader
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a White House meeting to forcefully confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, accusing the country of failing to address Trump’s baseless claim of the systematic killing of white farmers.
·Billings, United States
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Trump and the Rift in South Africa: The History and Reality of the "Rainbow Nation": Asahi Shimbun
On the 21st, US President Trump will meet with South African President Ramaphosa in Washington. South Africa has reacted negatively to Trump's claim that "white people are being persecuted" in South Africa, and attention is focused on whether the two countries can repair their relationship at the meeting.
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