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Trump and Ramaphosa to meet next week after US takes in white South Africans as ‘refugees’
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, February 20, 2025
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US President Donald Trump and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week, following Mr Trump’s absurd allegations that a “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in South Africa.
The meeting, announced on Wednesday by the South African government and set for May 21, also comes after the US welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees on Monday, the start of what the Trump administration said would be a larger relocation plan for Afrikaner farmers who, according to Mr Trump, are being persecuted in their homeland because of their race.
South Africa denies the allegations.
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