South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pushes back against President Donald Trump's call to arrest politician for his "kill the farmer" chant, citing freedom of expression and legal processes.

South Africa has offered to buy liquefied natural gas from the United States over a 10-year period as part of proposals to secure a trade deal, according to a ministerial statement posted on the ...

The lie of a ‘genocide’ against white farmers in South Africa took centre stage when presidents Cyril Ramaphosa and Donald Trump met on 21 May. The fact is that there is no ‘white genocide’ in South ...

Professor William Beinart debunks claims of white farmers being targeted in South Africa, highlighting the historical dispossession of Black South Africans from their land. He notes land reform ...

US President Donald Trump granted refugee status to nearly 60 white Afrikaners from South Africa, citing unverified claims of a "white genocide." The US processed their asylum requests directly in ...

It appeared to begin cordially enough. Ramaphosa thanked Trump for providing his country with respirators during the COVID-19 pandemic, introduced some of South Africa’s famous golfers, and ...

The president said white crosses seen in the video showed burial sites of White farmers. In fact, they were part of a protest, filmed near Normandien, South Africa, on Sept. 5, 2020, after the ...

On March 7, 2025, Elon Musk, the South Africa-born tech billionaire who owns the space aeronautics company SpaceX and the social media platform X, claimed in a post that Starlink, the satellite ...

The Oval Office meeting went off the rails when President Trump started playing videos and repeating discredited claims about a "white genocide" in South Africa.

Untangling the “white genocide” narrative from propaganda to punchline, as South Africa’s president meets with Trump in the White House.

Why South Africa’s president could be walking into an Oval Office ‘buzzsaw’ Cyril Ramaphosa wants to talk trade. But President Trump remains fixated on his country’s racial politics.

Trump amplified false claims and pressed South Africa’s president to protect White farmers, in a meeting originally meant to focus on trade. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.