John Eligon, Johannesburg bureau chief, recounts what he witnessed in the Oval Office when President Trump confronted the visiting President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa with an elaborate ...

Why South Africa’s president could be walking into an Oval Office ‘buzzsaw’ Cyril Ramaphosa wants to talk trade. But President Trump remains fixated on his country’s racial politics.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and U.S. President Donald Trump exchange words during a tense Oval Office meeting on May 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. In a surreal display of diplomatic ...

Trump hosted South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House amid tensions between the two nations over the U.S. resettlement of white South Africans.