Is it an anguishing ambush or masterful management of predictable volatility? As South Africa’s leader visits the White House, US President Donald Trump waves fists full of newspaper cuttings that he claims prove a white genocide in Africa’s powerhouse. He then pulls out screens to play a montage of video clips of a notoriously provocative opposition leader singing incendiary anti-Afrikaner songs.
Also, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said that his meeting with his US counterpart went very well. Some onlookers may have been surprised by his positive evaluation, given the rather chaotic and discourteous reception he received from Donald Trump. Earlier this month, dozens of white South Africans known as Afrikaners were received as refugees in the US, after Trump claimed that they were victims of genocide, a view widely ridiculed by South Africans of all stripes. On Wednesday, Trump dimmed the lights and displayed a collage of footage that he claims proves his concerns were valid.
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