Can Mandela's former negotiator charm Donald Trump?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "However, with respect to the humanitarian crisis and its alleviation - there's agreement there with President Trump and we will focus more on what we can do together on those areas where we agree.
43% : "If the South African delegation cannot convince the Trump administration of the right of South Africa to exercise its own policy choices domestically and internationally... then the Oval Office moment will be used by Trump to humiliate Ramaphosa and to read him the riot act," the University of South Africa academic said.
41% : In February, the US president announced the suspension of critical aid to South Africa and offered to help members from the Afrikaner community, who are mostly white descendants of early Dutch and French settlers, to settle in the US as "refugees". South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, was also expelled in March after accusing Trump of "mobilising a supremacism" and trying to "project white victimhood as a dog whistle". US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Rasool was a "race-baiting politician" who was "no longer welcome in our great country".
39% : "I anticipate that this face-to-face meeting will allow for the relationship to be strengthened, for facts to be placed on the table," she said, adding that the "propaganda" that had influenced Trump would have to be tackled.
33% : " On Friday, Trump acknowledged "a lot of people are starving" in Gaza following Israel's recent blockade of humanitarian supplies to the territory - comments that have led to a "basic amount of food" entering Gaza.
28% : The arrival of the first group of Afrikaners in the US last week further inflamed the situation, with Trump again doubling down on his claims that white farmers were being "brutally killed" and their "land is being confiscated" - which has been repeatedly denied by the South Africa government.
21% : Tension ramped up days after Trump took office for his second term in January when President Ramaphosa signed into law a controversial bill allowing South Africa's government to expropriate privately owned land without compensation in certain circumstances, when it is deemed "equitable and in the public interest".
17% : The two have been at loggerheads for months, with Trump repeatedly insisting that South Africa's Afrikaner community is facing a "genocide" - a claim amplified by his close adviser Elon Musk, the South African-born tech billionaire.

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