Ramaphosa-Trump updates: US pushes South Africa on ‘genocide’ claims

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has met Donald Trump in Washington, DC, amid tensions over Washington’s resettlement of Afrikaners, who the US president claims are the victims of “genocide”.

  • Ramaphosa’s office says Trump must prove the charge that white South Africans are persecuted if it continues to push the claim after Ramaphosa’s government has repeatedly rejected it.
  • Ramaphosa plans to discuss opportunities for Tesla and Starlink, companies owned by Trump’s ally Elon Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa and has accused Ramaphosa of pursuing anti-white policies, which the South African leader has rejected.
  • The meeting comes after the Trump administration last week welcomed a group of Afrikaners after it imposed a near-total pause on refugee admissions from elsewhere in the world.
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