South Africa turns to golf diplomacy to woo Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : South African golfer Ernie Els is set to join President Cyril Ramaphosa for a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Wednesday in a bid to mend fractured ties with the golf-loving US president.
58% : Accompanying them was -- Els. The golfer's presence would help South Africa's cause two-fold, a person in Ramaphosa's party suggests: Els knows and is liked by Trump; and also his life story reflects how -- far from facing a "genocide" -- many Afrikaners have thrived in the post-apartheid era.
56% : Another veteran South African golfer, the 89-year-old Gary Player, has also regularly played with Trump, who gave him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2021.
20% : Since his inauguration, Trump has cut all aid to South Africa, threatened to withdraw US support from and boycott this year's G20 summit -- which Pretoria is hosting -- and falsely accused Ramaphosa of presiding over a "genocide" of white farmers.

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