NATASHA MARRIAN: Cyril Ramaphosa prepares for the cauldron
Facing Donald Trump in the White House will call for all of our president’s acclaimed diplomacy
16 May 2025 - 05:00
It is legacy make-or-break time for President Cyril Ramaphosa as he heads to Washington for his first face-to-face meeting with US President Donald Trump.
He happens to be the first postdemocratic president of SA to have faced historic crises locally and abroad during his presidency — from Covid-19 associated lockdowns, inheriting a broken, captured state to the July 2021 riots, the ANC’s loss of power nationally, the situation in the Middle East, the Russia-Ukraine war and now Trump’s second term reshaping global power dynamics. It has been an eventful seven years. ..
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