Overview

• President Donald Trump showed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa a video featuring inflammatory rhetoric from a fringe politician, claiming it as evidence of a 'white genocide' targeting Afrikaner farmers.
• Ramaphosa firmly denied the allegations, emphasizing that the claims are not supported by government policy or evidence, and that most crime victims in South Africa are Black.
• The meeting, intended to improve U.S.-South Africa relations, was overshadowed by Trump's focus on land reform and refugee policies, including his administration's offer of asylum to white South African farmers.
• A South African court previously ruled in February that there is no evidence of racially motivated land confiscations or genocidal targeting of white farmers, dismissing the narrative as baseless.
• Ramaphosa, accompanied by prominent South Africans including golf legends Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, sought to shift the dialogue toward trade and economic cooperation, but tensions remained high.