In an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, Donald Trump confronts South Africa’s leader with video over discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa
Trump says white farmers are “fleeing South Africa” and plays footage showing people chanting “kill the Boer, kill the farmer”
This is the first time we’ve seen this sort of ambush in the Oval Office, reports Bernd Debusmann Jr
Responding to the footage, Ramaphosa says the chants don’t represent government policy
There were parallels with the infamous Zelensky meeting in the Oval Office, writes Anthony Zurcher, but Ramaphosa kept his composure
A group of 59 white South Africans recently arrived in the US, where they will be given refugee status
A much-anticipated meeting between South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump is over.
The encounter was at times – as expected – fiery. Trump confronted the South African leader with a video over discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa.
The meeting was also littered with golf chat. Ramaphosa told Trump he brought a 14kg golf book as a gift, while South African golfer Ernie Els told the meeting “two wrongs don’t make a right”.
Though visibly uncomfortable from the ambush, Ramaphosa remained calm, saying the chants of “shoot the Boer” shown in the video don’t represent government policy.
And upon leaving the White House, he told reporters the meeting went “very well”.
