Trump amplified false claims and pressed South Africa’s president to protect White farmers, in a meeting originally meant to focus on trade. Accessibility statement Skip to main content.

South African retail sales rose to 5.1% year on year in April after rising by a revised 1.2% in March, Statistics South Africa figures showed on Wednesday. Africa category · June 18, 2025 ...

South Africa faces criticism for high murder rates as President Donald Trump highlighted the issue in a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging his government to act against crime.

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa will begin a state visit to the United States on Monday in what his government describes as an attempt to “reset” the relationship between the two ...

Now, South Africa finds itself with more work to do to avert steep tariffs, secure a new trade agreement and set the record straight on Mr. Trump’s continued accusations of racism against white ...

Addressing the South African media on Saturday, Ramaphosa said: "There's no genocide in South Africa. That is a fact that's borne out of a lot of evidence." "I'm not worried about anything.

The Oval Office meeting went off the rails when President Trump started playing videos and repeating discredited claims about a "white genocide" in South Africa.

In February, a South Africa court said that a “white genocide” was “clearly imagined and not real.” “White farmers being killed is a fact,” Camus said.

What’s South Africa’s land law at the heart of the Trump-Ramaphosa spat? Some white Afrikaner groups say the land expropriation law targets them and could lead to violent land grabs.