S.Africa's Ramaphosa Woos Trump, Musk After Tensions

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : " Musk, who leads Trump's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), lashed out at the land laws in a video appearance at the Qatar Economic forum on Tuesday.
33% : " Trump made the offer despite the United States having halted arrivals of asylum seekers from most of the rest of the world as he cracks down on migration.
31% : But the biggest issue for Trump and his team has been a South African land expropriation law signed in January that aims to redress the historical inequalities of white minority rule.
24% : Musk, the world's richest man, has been a leading proponent of "white genocide" allegations that Pretoria strongly denies, and Trump has also taken up the claims.
22% : But he will also stress to Trump that conspiracies of a "white genocide" are "patently false," his spokesman Vincent Magwenya said.
21% : South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will seek to reset ties with Donald Trump and Elon Musk Wednesday after Washington's unfounded claims of "genocide" against white Afrikaners sent relations plunging.
20% : Trump has bought into an unfounded assertion boosted by billionaire Musk that white farmers are being targeted in the country for murder.
19% : "It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about," Trump told reporters on the day the 50 white South Africans arrived.
17% : It has slammed South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, cut foreign aid, announced 31 percent tariffs, and expelled Pretoria's ambassador after he criticized Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.

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