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”.
