SA MUST DITCH 'BEGGAR' MENTALITY

RESETTING strained relations with the Donald Trump administration topped the priority list of the South African delegation led by President Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House in Washington DC earlier this year.

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The visit was necessitated by the hostilities Trump had unleashed on South Africa, including cutting aid funding for key HIV and TB programmes and his officials not attending G20 meetings in this country on false claims of white genocide.

It was always going to be a challenge convincing Trump and his MAGA buddies that there were no attacks targeted at white South Africans when they knew very well that they were playing politics in the first place.