A little musing on President Trump’s tete a tete with President Ramaphosa
Cornelius Hamelberg
Re - President Trump’s tete a tete with President Ramaphosa
True: He has so much waiting for him on his plate.
Question : How is Pope Leo XIV going to weigh in on this?
Of late, tariff’s greatest President Trump has been very worried about BRICS
gathering steam as an alternative to the mighty dollar.
It’s my hunch that he wants to soften up Ramaphosa
get him and India off the China, Russia, Iran bandwagon
(China is South Africa’s number one trade partner)
It has started with a semi-charm offensive but
could deteriorate to his trademark threats, bombast and bluster.
Some story-telling to be done.
Firstly,
after all the evil things that the evil imagination can imagine,
there's no gainsaying how firmly Joe Biden stood here, in the movie
Joe Biden vs Apartheid South Africa
About the excruciatingly painful, outstanding issue of land redistribution - with 84% of Papa’s Land still miraculously in the hands of White South Africans and Black South Africa’s patience running thin and fraying at the seams, let's hope that the nation is eventually not plunged irreversibly into chaos and anarchy about this vexing problem of redistribution, that in exasperation, due to “the law’s delay”, overnight, the warriors and war veterans do not take the law into their own hands.
You remember ,
long gone was the Lancaster House Agreement
when Mugabe’s war veterans started getting a little impatient
and started taking over some of the White farms
with sanctions and boycotts etc
the Zimbabwe dollar which
in 1981 was going at the exchange rate of
1 Zimbabwe dollar = $US 1,
within a few months plunged to
$US 1 : 1, 000, 000 Zimbabwe dollars…
But South Africa and their rand is another kettle of fish.
#Six days ago @Democracy Now the general public was intimated about South Africa’s and Trump’s so called “fake refugees”
No paradox here even if his intention is to illustrate, at least to his base ( as he warms up his base - he Trumpy the Mighty defender of White Privilege, White Rights, and against any discrimination of people of his colour or any colour - and of course 101% against any hooliganism that smells like anti-Semitism,
that South Africa must rid itself of a double standard by first cleaning up its own backyard before claiming any higher moral ground by taking Israel to the ICC for crimes against humanity
To the extent that he has succeeded in at least casting some doubt on South Africa’s racial integrity about this matter of equality
secondly,
we must congratulate Trump for his masterful choreography
of the event, for his congeniality
and most surprisingly, for a change
for being at his very best behaviour
and bringing the meeting to an amicable
conclusion, based on compromise and mutual
respect, even if a little short of what usually transpires
at the Thai massage parlour as a “Happy Ending !”
Before Apartheid was placed under arrest
if you wanna talk about background or black-ground:
Consider : Once upon a time in South Africa
there was the PAC (Pan African Congress)
whose motto was : “One settler, one bullet”
Of course,
if instead of Madiba Nelson Mandela or Cyril Ramaphosa
Trump had met radical son of the soil Julius Malema
the militant no nonsense leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters
to iron things out, in the name of spontaneous combustion
“BLACK is BLACK
I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK-
ALL Of IT ! "
Amandla !
a Trump - Malema encounter in the Oval Office
would have ended in complete & total disaster !
Amandla !
So, it’s Kudos to South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa
for not falling into “a Zelensky moment” -
unlike the warmongering Ukrainian comedian-clown-turned-President
a president who in my opinion would have been far better off playing
Manuel in Fawlty Towers, than playing eternal war president -
much better for the Ukrainian people who have now lost countless
thousands of lives because their former-comedian-turned-president-of-the-Ukrainian-War Cabinet
wants to recover every inch - and let's be real here :
How does he dream of recovering every inch
of that which God did not give to him
from the very beginning ?
He would like Uncle Sam to go and fight for him.
He obviously mis-underestimates
the destructive power of nuclear bombs
But back to reality and realpolitik :
Our Mandela-trained President Cyril Ramaphosa
was too diplomatically dexterous to fall
into the kind of boobytrap, the Zelensky moment
that Zelensky/ little hitler fell into,
nor was there a little shout & shootout with JD Vance.
Oluwatoyin Adepoju
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