{"id":822110,"date":"2025-04-24T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=822110"},"modified":"2025-04-24T13:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T11:25:45","slug":"ramaphosa-and-trump-agree-to-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/822110\/ramaphosa-and-trump-agree-to-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa and Trump agree to meet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Donald Trump about relations between the two countries, which have deteriorated since the US president returned to office in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The leaders agreed to meet \u201csoon to address various matters,\u201d Ramaphosa said in a statement on X on Thursday. \u201cWe also spoke about the need to foster good relations between our two countries.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Relations between South Africa and its second-biggest trading partner have endured a cascade of actions by the US president. Trump\u2019s objections include Pretoria\u2019s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice and claims of land seizure at the expense of White farmers. South Africa hasn\u2019t confiscated any land since the end of apartheid in 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ramaphosa also said he discussed Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine with Trump. The discussions were announced as Ramaphosa hosted Ukrainian President Volodmyry Zelenskiy in Pretoria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South African and US leaders \u201cboth agreed that the war should be brought to an end as soon as possible to stop further unnecessary deaths,\u201d Ramaphosa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I spoke to President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> to discuss the peace process in Ukraine. We both agreed that the war should be brought to an end as soon as possible to stop further unnecessary deaths. <br><br>We both agreed to meet soon to address various matters regarding US-South Africa\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rEdwE6Y2XP\">pic.twitter.com\/rEdwE6Y2XP<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cyril Ramaphosa \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 (@CyrilRamaphosa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CyrilRamaphosa\/status\/1915342622194819245?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa says he and US President Donald Trump have agreed to meet, aiming to repair strained ties between the nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":814674,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1850,1293,10849,853,10022],"class_list":["post-822110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-bloomberg","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-donald-trump","tag-south-africa","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822130,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822110\/revisions\/822130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}