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South Africa’s president calls Trump’s policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners ‘racist’
PoliticsThe Guardian1mo ago

South Africa’s president calls Trump’s policy to offer refuge to white Afrikaners ‘racist’

US president is ‘truly uninformed’ for spreading claims of ‘white genocide’ in South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa tells New York Times South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa has called Donald Trump’s policy of allowing white Afrikaners to apply for refugee status in the US “racist,” saying the US president was “truly uninformed” in a rare instance of direct criticism. Ramaphosa told the New York Times that last year’s Oval Office meeting with the US leader, when Trump turned down the lights and ...

Trump’s new ambassador to South Africa arrives in country amid strained ties
PoliticsSCMP1mo ago

Trump’s new ambassador to South Africa arrives in country amid strained ties

US President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to South Africa has arrived in the country where he will seek to improve fraught ties between the two states. An embassy official told Reuters on Monday that ‌the envoy, conservative activist and writer Leo Brent Bozell III, had arrived. Bozell is expected to present his credentials to President Cyril Ramaphosa before officially taking up his post. Relations between Washington and Pretoria have deteriorated in the past year as Trump has accused...

South Africa's Ramaphosa Downplays G7 Exclusion
Worldmyjoyonline10d ago

South Africa's Ramaphosa Downplays G7 Exclusion

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed reports of his invitation to the G7 summit being withdrawn, stating that non-attendance by a non-bloc country should not be a surprise.