Trump and Musk meet with the White House’s South African president amid tensions
President Trump will meet with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday, while South African-born billionaire Elon Musk was present in the meeting, rigorous dialogue amid tensions between the United States and South Africa.
White House officials confirm Musk will join Meeting In the case of two world leaders, Mr. Trump echoed Mr. Musk’s statement that genocide was targeted at white Afrikaners.
USA accepted 59 white Afrikaans granted them status as refugees last week. Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that the white farmers in South Africa were targets of “genocide” – the charges in South Africa have refused – and insisted that South Africa is “out of control.”
The South African government denies that white Afrikaans face racial discrimination. Ramaphosa
Ramaphosa’s office said the White House meeting will begin at 11:30 a.m. ET and will provide a “platform for resetting strategic relations between the two countries.” Mr. Trump has collected new tariff In South Africa, he owns it almost anywhere else.
The Afrikaans are Dutch whites who live in South Africa for four centuries. In addition to English, Afrikaans also have their own language, Afrikaans, which originated from Dutch and is one of the 12 official languages in South Africa.
The Trump administration is working to halt refugee admissions programs, raising multiple court challenges, so the speed-up process for the Africa Dutch is emerging.
During a tense exchange at a hearing on budget issues on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Sen. Tim Kaine, a Democratic Virginia, asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio if he was more persecuted than the Ungrikaners than the Uyghurs or Rohingyas or dissidents in Cuba, Venezuela or Nicaragua, or threatened Taliban than those who would be threatened by Taliban, and should be threatened if they would return to Afghan.
Kaine suggested the Trump administration favored Afrikaans due to their skin color and asked Rubio why the United States should prioritize Afrikaans. Rubio said the Afrikaners were “a small set”.
“It’s a new problem,” Rubio said. “The president identified it as a problem and wanted to use it as an example. But it’s different from these refugee programs that basically spend money to put people in the community and accommodate them, and it acts as a magnet.”
Kane replied: “Let me challenge you, if you want to know the Anan African government’s offer, persecution, persecution, please look at the composition of the South African government,” Kane replied. Since July 2024, there has been a national unity government. Today’s opposition party – ANC – Afrikaners, the Democratic League, is part of the government coalition. They joined the Council League a year ago, which was headed by Agriculture Minister Jan Steenhuisen and the former party leader of the International Party. My agriculture in South Africa now claims that this is a persecution of Dutch farmers in South Africa.
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