Ramaphosa survives Trump nuisance layer over ‘white genocide’

Donald Trump is the political rottweiler of right-wing Afrikaner groups and has their fight against South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

They quickly celebrated the ambush of the US president of Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, with the Solidarity Movement – who had traveled through the US to lobby the Trump government – and said that the “huge problems of South Africa were placed on the international stage”.

Ernst Roets, a leading personality on the Afrikaner Right, showed his admiration to the US president.

“Donald Trump wrote history today,” he said in a message about X, before he thanked him for showing videos from fire brigade opposition politician Julius Malema sings “Shoot the Boer (Afrikaner); shoot the Farmer” – and newspaper heads of the murder of white farmers.

Jaco Kleynhans from Solidarity continued and said Trump earned a Nobel Prize for “placing the farm resort crisis on the international agenda”.

But for leading Afrikaner political columnist Pieter du Tit The ambush showed that “months and years of exaggeration, hyperbole and wrong information that was introduced by a series of South African activists in the American right-wing ecosystem had reached his mark”.

Like many South Africans, he praised Ramaphosa for his measured handling of the meeting in the White House.

Many are angry with the right -wing groups and say they have shown a lack of patriotism by lobbying the Trump government to take a heavy border against the country.

Such critics point to the fact that South Africa has a government of national unity – consisting of 10 parties from the entire racial and ideological gap to tackle the countless problems of the nation – from the high crime levels that influence all races and classes, to a unemployment rate of 32%, with black people to find the most to find.

For most South Africans, the “Rainbow Nation” could be seen in the White House and set up a united front against Trump.

The government delegation included the oldest white politician in South Africa, John Steenhuisen -the Minister of Agriculture who leads the second largest party of South Africa, the Democratic Alliance (DA).

He acknowledged that South Africa had a “real safety problem”, and added that it “required a lot of effort to get on top”.

“It will require more police resources,” he said.

But he rejected the position that most white farmers fled: “Certainly, the majority of commercial and small farmers in South Africa really want to stay in South Africa and let it work.”

Trump’s video strengthened the role of the Opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in South African politics by showing that her leader sings the song “Shoot the Boer”.

The party argues for the nationalization of Land, and Malema enjoys singing the song at his political meetings – where Trump demands why no action had been taken against him.

The song was once an anti-apartheid song and Afrikaner lobby groups tried to get it forbidden. But the Supreme Court of South Africa has ruled that a “reasonably well-informed person” would understand that when “protest songs are sung, even by politicians, the words are not meant to be literally understood, nor is the gesture of shooting to be understood as a call for weapons or violence”.

Instead, the song was a “provocative way” to promote the political agenda of the EFF – which would put an end to “land and economic injustice”.

Ramaphosa pointed out Trump that South Africa was a democracy – and although the government was “completely against” what Malema does, the EFF had the right to exist under the Constitution.

The EFF fell in fourth place in last year’s parliamentary elections, where Ramaphosa refused to give Malema political oxygen by closing a deal with him to form a coalition government after the poll could not produce an outright winner.

Steenhuisen told Trump that the DA, a center-right party that stands for a free market economy, has joined the government to keep the EFF out and to tackle the problems of South Africa.

“This government, who work together, needs the support of our allies around the world so that we can strengthen our hand, grow our economy and close the door forever on that rebel (Malema) that comes through the doors of trade union buildings (the government’s seat),” he said.

Steenhuisen and Ramaphosa keep the middle land in the South African political Right-Wing and the EFF, together with ex-president Jacob Zuma’s Umkhonto Wesizwe (Spear of the Nation) Party, are in the extreme.

Ramaphosa promised to defend unity and appeal to the name of anti-aparteness icon Nelson Mandela-the symbol of racial reconciliation in South Africa after the end of the white-minority rule in 1994.

But some Afrikaners feel that they can no longer live in South Africa, and Trump has offered them refugee status. Almost 60 of them have been resettled in the US.

Trump gave a boost to the right -wing in February, with some of those who, outside the American embassy in the capital of South Africa, Pretoria, collect with plates with the text: “Make South -Africa great” -an adaptation of Trump’s “Make America Great Again”.

The Minister of Land Reform of South Africa, Mzwanele Nyhontso, acknowledged that the meeting in the Oval Office was “uncomfortable to watch”.

“There is no genocide in South Africa … There is a crime in South Africa like in other countries and this crime affects many people,” he told the BBC’s Newshouour program.

Nyhontso welcomed Ramaphosa for retaining his calmness, instead of shooting back on Trump when he lured him in an ambush, with weapons blazing.

Some also praised the South African president for his tactics -who take famous Afrikaner golfers to the meeting to make tensions harmless.

When invited to talk, Ernie Els took out his South African passport to prove his patriotism – and spoke about his respect for Mandela after he succeeded in uniting the country at the end of apartheid – but said he wanted to see South Africa flourishing with the help of America.

Retief Goosen might add more fuel to the fire, talking about how difficult it was for his brother to farm outside the northern city of Polokwane – to explain how he had a “constant struggle” with people trying to burn the farm and chase you away “.

Although he ended with saying that despite their fear of crime, “the boys lead a great life, despite what is going on”.

Businessman of billionaire Johann Rupert, also an Afrikaner, pointed out that the highest murder percentage in South Africa was in the Townships of Cape Town, where most residents are black or colored – as people with a mixed race are known in South Africa – and are delivered to the grace of violent gangs.

While Zingiswa Losi, president of the largest trade union in South Africa, told Trump about the devastating situation in rural areas “where the black majority is”.

“You will see women, elderly, being raped, being killed, being killed,” she said.

She insisted on the delegations to tackle the problem through trade – and creating employment.

“The problem in South Africa, it’s not necessarily about race, but it’s about crime.”

It is a sentiment with which most South Africans would agree.