South Africa's Ramaphosa faces Trump with deals on offer and...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Ramaphosa goes into his meetings with Trump, scheduled to start at 1530 GMT, bearing offers of trade deals and investment opportunities, and accompanied by ministers, luxury goods tycoon Johann Rupert and champion golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen.
54% : Both men have played golf with Trump.
53% : GOLF CONNECTIONS South African billionaire Rupert, founder of the Richemont luxury goods group that owns brands like Cartier and an important investor in his home country, helped bring about Ramaphosa's meeting with Trump, South African media reported.
50% : Ramaphosa will offer Trump a broad trade deal, as well as specific deals such as duty-free access for Musk's Tesla electric vehicles in exchange for the firm building charging stations, and potential licensing for Musk's Starlink company.
45% : "Whether we like it or not, we are joined at the hip and we need to be talking to them," Ramaphosa said on South African state television before flying to Washington to meet President Trump.
40% : For his part, Trump is likely to demand that U.S. companies are exempted from "racial requirements", a White House official said.
37% : On Trump's side will be Vice President JD Vance, South African-born billionaire Elon Musk -- who has accused Ramaphosa of pursuing anti-white policies, which he denies -- and senior figures from the U.S. government.
34% : Attacking South Africa's land reform law aimed at redressing the injustices of apartheid and its genocide court case against Israel, Trump has cancelled aid to the country, expelled its ambassador and offered refuge to white minority Afrikaners based on racial discrimination claims Pretoria says are unfounded.
29% : Trump has accused South Africa of seizing land from white farmers and of fuelling disproportionate violence against white landowners with "hateful rhetoric and government actions".
6% : Ramaphosa-Trump White House meetings start at 1530 GMT * Trump has criticised South Africa, cut aid, expelled envoy * Pretoria rejects his attacks as inaccurate, insensitive * Ramaphosa takes two pro golfers and a billionaire with him * Deals on offer for Musk, who is also expected to attend (Adds details on Trump, Ramaphosa delegation members, paragraphs 5-8) By Nellie Peyton and Nandita Bose JOHANNESBURG/WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to the White House on Wednesday on a perilous mission to persuade a hostile Donald Trump to make deals with his country rather than scold and punish it as he has done since the start of his second term.

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