Ramaphosa survives mauling by Trump over 'white genocide'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Trump has given a boost to the right-wing, with some of them gathering outside the US embassy in South Africa's capital, Pretoria, in February with placards that read: "Make South Africa Great Again" - an adaptation of Trump's "Make America Great Again". South Africa's Land Reform Minister Mzwanele Nyhontso acknowledged that the meeting in the Oval Office was "uncomfortable to watch".
47% : Ramaphosa pointed out to Trump that South Africa was a democracy - and while the government was "completely against" what Malema does, the EFF had a right to exist under the constitution The EFF fell to fourth spot in last year's parliamentary election, with Ramaphosa refusing to give Malema political oxygen by making a deal with him to form a coalition government after last year's parliamentary election failed to produce an outright winner.
37% : The party advocates the nationalisation of land, and Malema revels in chanting it at his political rallies - with Trump demanding to know why no action had been taken against him.
34% : "Donald Trump made history today," he said in a post on X, before thanking him for showing videos of firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema singing "Shoot the Boer (Afrikaner); Shoot the farmer" - and newspaper headlines of the killing of white farmers.
33% : Nyhontso applauded Ramaphosa for keeping his composure, rather than firing back at Trump when he ambushed him, with guns blazing.
29% : Solidarity's Jaco Kleynhans went further, saying Trump deserved a Nobel Prize for "putting the farm murder crisis on the international agenda".
28% : Steenhuisen told Trump that the DA, a centre-right party which stands for a free market economy, joined the government to keep the EFF out, and to help tackle South Africa's problems.
27% : But some Afrikaners feel they can no longer live in South Africa, and Trump has offered them refugee status.
27% : While Zingiswa Losi, president of South Africa's largest trade union, told Trump about the devastating situation in rural areas "where the black majority are".
18% : Donald Trump has proved to be the political Rottweiler of right-wing Afrikaner groups, taking their fight to South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa.

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