(22 May 2025)
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Johannesburg – 22 May 2025
1. Wide of men walking on side of road
2. Wide of shopping complex
3. Close of street sign
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Kyle Kemp, local resident:
“I did think that president (Cyril) Ramaphosa represented the country well. I thought that the delegation, especially that he took over with him was very strategic and I thought everyone in that delegation put their best foot forward for our country."
5. Wide of man adjusting jacket outside restaurant
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gift Nxumalo, local resident:
“Even though I feel like he (Trump) didn’t give enough information about the White genocide in South Africa, but he (Ramaphosa) handled the situation very well and I think he should have told him that we have a ugly history. And songs like – ‘Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer’ – are just struggle songs, struggle chants and it’s not like people are going to out and kill anyone there in the farm.”
7. Wide of women speaking to reporter
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Corlia Bellingna, local resident:
“I think there is no longer a shift between any racial groups. I work with a lot of racial groups, with a lot of people and I do believe that we shouldn’t care about what other counties think of us. But if we do get the help from other countries, we need to make sure that we actually use that to our own benefit and that it doesn’t get stolen by our own government.”
9. Wide of people walking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Asanda Ngoasheng, political analyst:
“I do think though it’s sad that he showcased that we are still in an era where in a Black man needs to be flanked by white people to be seen as legitimate, to be heard and to be listened to because we saw at times Donald Trump ignore Cyril Ramaphosa, at times interrupt mid-speech. But when it came to the white men speaking, the golfers particularly, he listened intently, even laughed and made some jokes with them.”
11. Close of taxi driving off from road intersection
12. Wide of cars and man on bicycle
STORYLINE:
South Africans expressed their support on Thursday for their President Cyril Ramaphosa after his dramatic confrontation with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump used a White House meeting to talk about baseless allegations that white farmers in his country were being systematically singled out for persecution and murder.
Instead of pushing back on Trump by himself, Ramaphosa encouraged Trump to listen to other members of his delegation, including pro golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen.
Reacting to the meeting Johannesburg resident Gift Nxumalo said he felt Ramaphosa "handled the situation very well".
Kyle Kemp, another resident, echoed similar sentiments, saying that Ramaphosa "represented the country well".
The U.S. president, since his return to office, has launched a series of accusations at South Africa’s Black-led government, claiming it is seizing land from white farmers, enforcing antiwhite policies and pursuing an anti-American foreign policy.
Ramaphosa rejected allegations of genocide in South Africa, which has a painful history with race.
Once an apartheid country, it was ruled by a white minority known as Afrikaners.
The system of racist oppression ended three decades ago, and some tension remains despite largely successful efforts at reconciliation.
AP video shot by: Sebabatso Mosamo
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