The Presidency said the purpose of the visit is to ‘reset and revitalise bilateral relations between South Africa and the US’.
The highly anticipated meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump is currently underway at the White House in Washington, D.C., according to the Presidency.
The meeting with Trump comes just days after the US welcomed a group of 49 Afrikaners as “refugees”.
Trump falsely claimed they are being persecuted and facing a “genocide in South Africa due to their race.
The Presidency said the visit’s purpose is to “reset and revitalise bilateral relations between South Africa and the US.”
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Trump is a transactional president and may want some concessions from South Africa when he meets Ramaphosa
“President Trump approaches diplomacy and engages in a very transactional manner, with economics as the foundation and driving force behind international affairs,” retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, the president’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, explained at an event in Washington this past week.
For Trump, it’s about leverage, not friendship; dollars as much as values; and hard power versus soft.
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