US President Donald Trump received Cyril Ramaphos on Wednesday in the White House of President of South Africa (Spring). AP notes that Trump has used the meeting to confront the South African president with his accusations that the Genocide of the White Population occurs in South Africa, TASR writes.
“People are fleeing from spring for concerns about their own security,” Trump said. The US President for a while dimmed lights in an oval office and released a video that, according to him, proves that the white men are occurring in South Africa. According to Trump, there are thousands of white farmers on the video. Ramaphosa said he sees the shots for the first time and would like to know where they were shot.
Voltage between leaders
Trump subsequently showed printed copies of articles in which he said he was informed about the white South Africans who were murdered. Ramaphos acknowledged that there is high crime in South Africa, but most victims are blacks. Trump interrupted him and said, “Farmers are not blacks.”
Ramaphos objected to Trump’s accusations, but said he was willing to talk about his concerns.
Efforts to improve relationships
According to AP, the South African President tried to take advantage of the meeting to improve tense relations with the US. “We are basically here to restore relationships between the US and spring,” he said. These have worsened significantly after Trump’s accession and, according to the US agency, they have been the worst since the end of the apartheid policy in 1994.
The Guardian recalls that Trump has criticized the South African Land Reform law and an international action against Israel for suspicion of genocide in recent months. Spring also accused the occupation of land to the white farmers and incite violence against them. The Spring Government claims that these claims are false and “do not recognize the long and painful history of South Africa”.
The country also abolished a large part of the humanitarian aid, expelled the South African ambassador and offered asylum asylum of the white minority of Africans.
