President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa dedicated themselves to a return to the White House about the unfounded Trump statements of “genocide” against the white farmers of the South Africans.
In a rare scene at the Oval office, Trump had the attenuated lights to play videos on a television monitor that, according to him, supported his accusations. Then he raised what he said were articles of violent attacks against the farmers of the White Afrikaner.
“White South Africans are fleeing due to violence and racist laws,” Trump said.
Ramaphosa retreated, saying that the clips of speeches performed by the administration “are not government policies.”
A video is reproduced while the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa watches during a meeting with the president of the United States, Donald Trump, at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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The South African leader said Trump would be needed “to listen to the voices of the South Africans” to change their point of view.
“I would say that if there was a genocide of Afrikaner farmers, I can bet that these three gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture. I would not be with me. So he will take him to him, President Trump, listen to his stories, to his perspective. That is the answer to his question,” Ramaphosa said.
President Donald Trump meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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President Donald Trump welcomes the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House in Washington, on May 21, 2025.
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Elon Musk, a native of South Africa and the president’s main advisor during his second term, has also expressed the difficult situation of South African landowners, amplifying the “White Genocide” statements.
Musk was present for Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House. He was seen behind a sofa and did not speak during the exchange between Ramaphosa and Trump.
The dozens of Afrikaners who arrived at the US. Uu. Last week they had their accelerated requests under an executive order issued by Trump in February entitled, “addressing atrocious actions of the Republic of South Africa.”
The order argues that the South African government approved a law that allows it to “take the agricultural property of ethnic minorities of ethnic minorities without compensation” in a “shocking contempt for its” citizen rights. “Instruct that the United States will not provide help or assistance to the nation, and that the United States” promotes the resettlement of Afrikaner refugees. “
The law approved by South Africa cited by the Administration aims to address the injustices of the land established during apartheid. It establishes that the land can be expropriated in public interest and, in most cases, must be subject to compensation, whose amount must have been agreed by the owners or approved by the Court. Experts say that the law is comparable to similar legislation worldwide with respect to eminent domain.
In addition to Trump’s executive order, his administration expelled the Ambassador of South Africa Ebrahim Rasool from the United States earlier this year.
Trump has been examined by prioritizing Afrikaners while moving to restrict the immigration of Elsehwere, even from Afghanistan, Venezuela and Haiti.
The Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked to defend the position of the administration while testifying before a Senate panel on Tuesday.
“I think those 49 people who came strongly felt that they were persecuted, and all kinds of control brand that should be reviewed,” Rubio said. “The president identified him as a problem and wanted to use it as an example.”
Democratic Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia said he believed that the statement that there is persecution of Afrikaner farmers was “completely misleading” and pointed out that the United States had not let black South Africans during apartheid.
“I think the United States has the right to allow in this country and prioritize the assignment of who they want to allow you to enter,” Rubio replied.
Some of the first groups of White South Africans granted the refugee status that have flags of the United States while attending a meeting and greeting event, at the Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia, on May 12, 2025.
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Ramaphosa projected on Tuesday the optimism about the next conversations with Trump.
“We are always ready and we hope to have very good discussions with President Trump and his fellow government colleagues. We expect a really good and positive meeting, and we expect a really good result for our country, for our people, for the work in our country and good commercial relations,” Ramaphosa He said to journalists When he arrived at the South Africa Embassy in Washington.
He said that trade is “the most important thing, that is what has brought us here” and that they want to strengthen the economic ties between the two nations in a video published in X. Ramaphosa also said that he and Trump will discuss Israel, as well as Russia and Ukraine.
Ramaphosa did not mention the prioritization of the United States from the resettlement of South African White Refugees in the videos published on social networks, although it promised to protect the sovereignty of South Africa.
“We will always do our best for South Africans,” he said.
Shannon Kingston of ABC News contributed to this report.
