South Africa's Ramaphosa to take golf stars to Trump meeting at White House

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : Ramaphosa's appeal to Trump's love of golf, with the potential inclusion of Els and Goosen reported by South African local media, is part of his efforts to avoid a public dressing down of the kind Trump gave to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in February.
65% : Musk has railed against affirmative action laws that would have required him to give up 30% of equity to non-white investors.
64% : Rupert has known Trump since 1996 and has played golf with the US president and Els.
50% : "Ernie Els was actually the person who, over the past month talked Trump into agreeing to the meeting," said the billionaire JohannRupert, the founder of Switzerland-based luxury goods conglomerate Richemont, which owns jewellery brand Cartier, who will also join the trip.
47% : Rupert, thought to be South Africa's richest man, told South Africa's News24 that he and Els visited Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in March 2024, months before Trump's re-election, to ask him to keep AGOA.
34% : Ernie Els and Retief Goosen reportedly part of delegation as president seeks to reset ties after white 'genocide' claims The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, is expected to take the golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen with him to meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, as the government attempts to reset relations with the US amid Trump's accusations that it is fomenting a white "genocide".
31% : Ramaphosa's spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya, did not reply to questions about the delegation to meet Trump and Rupert and Els's role.
25% : Far from being victims of a genocide, as in the telling of Trump, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, Rupert, Els and Goosen are examples of successful white Afrikaners, a minority descended from mainly Dutch colonists who ruled South Africa during its decades of apartheid, legally mandated racial segregation and discrimination in favour of white people.

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