South Africa's Ramaphosa to meet Trump amid tensions over...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Seasoned diplomat Ramaphosa will therefore be treading a tightrope when he meets Trump in the Oval Office.
44% : A first group of around 50 white South Africans arrived in the United States on May 12 after Trump offered refuge to the Afrikaner minority.
36% : Trump appears to have bought into his billionaire ally's claims.
34% : But Trump and his team have also torn into a series of other policies in South Africa, a pivotal nation seen by former administrations as a crucial ally for Washington.
20% : Ramaphosa will be hoping to reset historically low relations with a crucial trading partner but will also confront Trump over what Pretoria says are false claims of persecution.
19% : The South African president will stress to Trump that conspiracies of a "white genocide" in South Africa are "patently false," his spokesman Vincent Magwenya said.
19% : "It's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about," Trump told reporters on the day they arrived.
16% : It has slammed South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, cut aid, announced 31-percent tariffs, and expelled Pretoria's ambassador after he criticized Trump's Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement.
10% : US President Donald Trump's (L) meeting with South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa (R) promises to be tense South African President Cyril Ramaphosa meets Donald Trump on Wednesday amid tensions over Washington's resettlement of white Afrikaners that the US president claims are the victims of "genocide.

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