Is Cyril walking into a Trump trap?
18 May 2025 - 00:00
President Cyril Ramaphosa will be taking the risk of his political life when he meets US President Donald Trump in Washington on Wednesday. It’ll be their first meeting since the beginning of Trump’s second term in the White House in January, when he almost immediately began a furious assault on South African “transformation” policies, including land expropriation and BEE, along with almost entirely false claims of systemic discrimination against white Afrikaner farmers...
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