The American president confronts the South African leader with a claim from Afrikaners that is being prosecuted ‘

US President Donald Trump has confronted the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House with a video that, according to the US President, supports his claim that white farmers are being “prosecuted”.

The images that were shown during a press conference with the South African leader claimed to show the counts of murdered farmers. Trump did not say where it was filmed and the images were not verified by the BBC.

Ramaphosa – who seemed carefully to weigh how to respond – disputed Trump’s claim. He said that black people were much more often victims of violence in South Africa than white people.

Trump also said that he would look for a “explanation” from his guest on widespread claims of a white “genocide” in South Africa.

Ramaphosa came to the White House on Wednesday for commercial conversations to reset the American South African relations.

He had hoped to charm Trump with the inclusion of two of the most famous golfers in South Africa in the delegation. Ramaphosa also came equipped with a gift from a huge book with the golf courses of his country.

But after a warm start, the mood in the Oval Office shifted when Trump asked to lower the lighting so that a video could be played.

The film contained the voice of the leading South -African opposition figure Julius Malema who sang the song: “Shoot the Boer (Afrikaner), Shoot the Farmer”.

It also showed a field of crosses that the American president, who spoke about the images, said it was a cemetery of white farmers.

He then handed Ramaphosa what looked like printing stories from white people who were attacked in South Africa.

“What you saw – the speeches that were held … that’s not a government policy,” Ramaphosa replied.

“We have a multi -party democracy in South Africa with which people can express themselves.

“Our government policy is entirely against what he (Malema) even said in parliament and they are a small minority party, which according to our constitution may exist.”

Ramaphosa said he hoped that Trump would listen to the voices of South Africans about this issue.

The South African leader pointed to the white members of his delegation, including golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and the richest man in South Africa Johann Rupert.

“If there was a genocide, these three gentlemen would not be here,” said Ramaphosa.

Trump interrupted: “But you allow them to take land, and when they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them.”

“No,” Ramaphosa replied.

Ramaphosa did acknowledge that there was “crime in our country … people who are killed by criminal activities are not only white people, the majority of them are black people”.

While Trump pressed the issue, Ramaphosa remained calm – and tried to work his charm by making a joke about offering an airplane to the US.

He called on the name of the Nelson Mandela anti-apartheid icon and said that South Africa is committed to racial reconciliation.

When a journalist asked what would happen if white farmers left South -Africa, Ramaphosa aroused the question of his Minister of Brown Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, who said that most farmers wanted to stay.

But Trump continued to fire the Salvo’s on Ramaphosa, who avoided a screaming game with him – something that happened to the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he met Trump in the same room in February.

Earlier this month a group of 59 Blanke South Africans arrived in the US, where they received refugee status. Ramaphosa said when they were “cowards”.

Before Wednesday’s white house meeting, the leader of South Africa had emphasized that improving trade relations with the US was his priority.

The South African export to the US is confronted with a rate of 30% as soon as a break on the new import load of Trump ends in July.

The tensions between South Africa and the US arrived on days after Trump took on his second term in January.

At that time, it was that Ramaphosa signed a controversial bill with which the South African government could not expropriate private land in certain circumstances if it is considered “fair and in the public interest”.

This only served to affect the image of Africa’s greatest economy in the eyes of the Trump government -already angry about her genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

In February, the US President announced the suspension of critical help to South Africa and offered to establish members of the Afrikaner community – who are usually white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers – in the US as refugees.

The ambassador of South Africa in Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, was also deported in March after he accused Trump of “mobilizing supremacism” and trying to project “white victimization like a dog whistle”.

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