After criticizing South Africa for months, Trump will meet with its president
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met President Trump at the White House in May 2025, after months of tension over the resettlement of Afrikaners in the U.S., claims of persecution of white South Africans and Israel's war in Gaza.
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