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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

Praise and dismay in South Africa over president’s meeting with Trump

A close-up shot of Cyril Ramaphosa
Cyril Ramaphosa ‘did well to … stick to the facts as close as possible’, said one political journalist. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Many South Africans have praised their president, Cyril Ramaphosa, for staying calm when Donald Trump ambushed him in the Oval Office with a video purporting to back up his false claims of a “genocide” against white Afrikaner farmers.

Others asked why Ramaphosa, who brought ministers, golfers and a billionaire with him, chose to walk into what he knew was likely to be a trap.

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