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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
SACRAMENTO, USA, May 22 (Xinhua) — US President Donald Trump on Wednesday got into a dispute with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa over conspiracy theories about “white genocide” in South Africa, which the South African leader strongly denied.
During a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, D. Trump accused South Africa of “white genocide” and an unfair land grab, and then showed materials allegedly proving his accusations.
Ramaphosa, who was in Washington to improve trade terms and ease bilateral tensions, rejected Trump’s statement during the meeting. He rejected the claim that white South Africans are fleeing the country because of racist policies. According to the president, South Africa has a crime problem and most of the victims are black citizens.
News outlets were shocked by Trump’s rudeness, saying that much of the information he presented during the meeting as evidence of “white genocide” in South Africa had been “repeatedly debunked.”
“Almost all of the conspiracy theories presented at Trump’s meeting with South African President S. Ramaphosa today have been debunked, with some South Africans saying they believe the information is “propaganda from AfriForum,” an Afrikaner lobby group criticized for its white nationalist leanings,” CNN reported.
The row between the US and South African presidents comes at a time of tense relations between the two countries, which worsened after Ramaphosa signed an expropriation law in January that Trump criticised for “discriminating” against the country’s white population. –0–