US President Donald Trump on Wednesday met South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at Whit House and said he was seeking an explanation from the South African President regarding unfounded allegations of “genocide” targeting white Afrikaners.
“Generally, they’re white farmers, and they’re fleeing South Africa, and it’s a very sad thing to see. But I hope we can have an explanation of that, because I know you don’t want that,” Trump said.
Ramaphosa, however, disputed President Trump’s claim during their meeting in the Oval Office.
“If there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my minister of agriculture, he would not be with me,” Ramaphosa as saying, referring to White members of his delegation, which included South African golfers, Retief Goosen and Ernie Els, and his country’s agriculture minister, John Henry Steenhuisen.Ramaphosa urged Trump to “(listen) to their stories, to their perspective.”
Immediately afterward, Ramaphosa sat in uneasy silence as Trump directed his aides to play a short documentary composed of various video clips, including footage of South African politician Julius Malema.
Trump then remarked that the videos showed aerial footage of white crosses marking the graves of murdered white farmers.
