Cyril Ramaphosa pushes back against Trump claim of Afrikaner “genocide”

President Donald Trump has hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting that was somewhat tense despite the jokes and attempts by Ramaphosa to defuse the situation after Trump accused the country’s government of allowing a “genocide” to take place against white Afrikaner farmers, a label that even many of those farmers reject.

Ramaphosa pushed for the meeting with Trump in an attempt…