Trump confronts Ramaphosa over violence against white farmers
Trump made no mention of SA's long-standing epidemic of violence against both white and black people — nor violent, discriminatory history of white rule
21 May 2025 - 21:35
US President Donald Trump pressed President Cyril Ramaphosa to protect white Afrikaner farmers from violent attacks in an extraordinary Oval Office conversation in which Trump made no mention of the African nation’s long-standing epidemic of violence against both white and black people, nor its violent and discriminatory history of white rule...
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