President Trump Meets With South African President Cyril Ramaphosa At The White House

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 21: South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks to journalists during a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Relations between the two countries have been strained since Trump signed an executive order in February that claimed white South Africans are the victims of government land confiscation and race-based “genocide,” while admitting some of those Afrikaners as refugees to the United States. Trump also halted all foreign aid to South Africa and expelled the country’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ebrahim Rasool. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)