President Trump Meeting with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, attending South African billionaire Elon Musk for a critical conversation against tensions between the US and South Africa.
The White House official confirmed that Musk would join gathering With two world leaders, as Mr. Trump repeats Musk's statement that genocide is committed against white Africans.
US adopted Last week, 59 white Africans providing them with refugee status. Mr. Trump has repeatedly said that white farmers in South Africa were the goals of “genocide” – the accusation of South Africa rejected – and insists that South Africa is “out of control”.
The South African government denies that white Africanners have faced racial discrimination. And Ramaphos considered that the “coward” for the relocation to the USA
The Ramaphos office said the White House meeting, which started at 11:30 in the morning, offers a “platform for strategic relations between the two countries.” Mr. Trump charged new tariffs In South Africa, he has almost everywhere.
Africans are the white South African Dutch origin who lived in South Africa for four centuries. In addition to English, Africanners have their own language, Afrikaans, which has its roots on the Dutch and is one of 12 official languages of South Africa.
The presented process for Africanas comes when the Trump administration is working on the suspension of the refugee admission program, causing several court problems.
In a busy exchange during hearings on the Capitolian Hill on Tuesday, the Senator of Democratic Tim Cain from Virginia asked Secretary of State Mark Rubio, whether African -chasers will be more persecuted than Wigura or Rokhingya, or dissidents in Cuba, Venezuela, or Afchanistan.
Cain suggested that Trump's administration would prefer African -leather Africans and asked Rubio why the United States should prior to African. Rubio said Africanners were a “small subset”.
“This is a new question,” Rubio said. “And the president defined it as a problem and wanted to use it as an example. But it is different from the fact that these programs for refugees who mostly spend money to create people in the community and place them, and it acted as a magnet.”
“Let me challenge you, and I'm just going to say to the public if you want to understand the quote, the persecution, the African farmers, go to look at the South African government,” Kane replied. “Since July 2024, there is a national unity government. And today the opposition party – the Anc – the African Party, the Alliance of Democracy, is part of the ruling coalition. African.
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He contributed to this report.