WATCH LIVE: US President Donald Trump meets President Cyril Ramaphosa

The highly anticipated meeting between President Cyril Ramaphosa and US President Donald Trump is currently underway at the White House in Washington, D.C., according to the Presidency.

The meeting with Trump comes just days after the US welcomed a group of 49 Afrikaners as “refugees”.

Trump falsely claimed they are being persecuted and facing a “genocide in South Africa due to their race.

The Presidency said the visit’s purpose is to “reset and revitalise bilateral relations between South Africa and the US.”

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Trump’s transactional approach

Described by experts as a transactional leader, Trump is expected to seek concessions from South Africa during his meeting with President Ramaphosa.

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“President Trump approaches diplomacy and engages in a very transactional manner, with economics as the foundation and driving force behind international affairs,” retired Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, the president’s special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, explained at an event in Washington this past week.

For Trump, the meeting is expected to be about leverage, not friendship, dollars as much as values, and hard power versus soft power.

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