President Donald Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday by interpreting a video that, according to him, showed that the genocide is being committed against whites, which leads farmers to flee to the United States.
The unexpected trick converted the generally serious diplomatic scenario of the Oval office into a scenario for Trump’s statement that White South Africans are being persecuted.
With the media and Ramaphosa sometimes unable to say a word, Trump made the staff put the video on a large screen, saying that he showed the black South Africans discussing the genocide.
“They are white farmers, and they are fleeing from South Africa, and it is something very sad to see. But I hope we can have an explanation of that, because I know you don’t want that,” Trump said.
Ramophosa tried repeatedly to speak but drowned. At one point, he begged that “they talk about that very calmly.”
“Nelson Mandela taught us that every time there are problems, people must sit around the table and talk about them. And this is precisely what we would also like to talk about,” he said.
The visit of the South African leader was announced as an opportunity to soften relationships after the voices and unfounded statements of Trump’s genocide and his billionaire, the ally of those born in South Africa, Elon Musk, which was also in the oval office.
“We are essentially here to restore the relationship between the United States and South Africa,” Ramaphosa said.
He arrived at the White House with two of the best golfers in South Africa, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and the richest man in the country, Johann Rupert, in an attempt to court the US president lover of golf.
The support of the three high -profile Afrikaners in the Ramaphosa delegation occurs days after around 50 Afrikaners arrived in the United States to assume Trump’s “refuge” offer. Trump made the offer despite the fact that the United States had arrested the arrivals of asylum applicants from most of the rest of the world while taking energetic measures against migration.
It was also expected that South African president will see gifts, with reports that his government would offer Musk an agreement to operate his Internet network Starlink Satellite in the country.
The Chief of Tesla and Space X has accused Pretoria of the “openly racist” laws, a reference to the black empowerment policies after apartheid seen as an obstacle to the Starlink license.
Land Law Row
The Trump administration has worked into a series of policies in South Africa since the president of the United States began his second term in office.
He has criticized the case of South Africa accusing Israel of Genocide in Gaza in the International Court of Justice, cut out foreign help, announced tariffs of 31 percent and expelled the Pretoria ambassador after criticizing the Make America Breat Again (Maga) movement.
But the biggest problem for Trump and his team has been a law for expropriation of South African land signed in January that aims to repair the historical inequalities of the Government of White Minorities.
Musk, which has headed the Government Efficiency Department (Doge) of Trump’s cost reduction, attacked the land laws in the Qatar economic forum on Tuesday.
“Why are there racist laws in South Africa?” said.
Earth’s property is a controversial issue in South Africa, and most cultivation lands are still owned by white people despite being only 7.3pc of the population.
Ramaphosa has rejected Washington’s statement that the law will be used to arbitrarily confiscate white -owned land.
Lobby Afrikaner groups on the right have claimed that Afrikaans farmers are being killed in specific murders, but the authorities say this is unfounded.
According to police figures, most victims of the murder rate of South Africa to heaven are young blacks in urban areas.
