US President Donald Trump has played a clip in front of President Cyril Ramaphosa that included EFF leader Julius Malema chanting the struggle song ‘Kill the Boer’ to substantiate his claim that white farmers in South Africa were being targeted.

The Equality Court in South Africa has ruled the song could be sung by members of the EFF, as it did not constitute hate speech.

President Ramaphosa responded by saying that crime was a problem in South Africa and that many people of different colours were victims of violence.

Ramaphosa appealed to the US to assist with its technology in fighting crime in the country.

Trump also presented newspaper clippings of crime in South Africa and handed it to Ramaphosa.

“When you look at the videos, how does it get worse, and these are people that are officials and they’re saying that kill the white farmer, and take their land. I have other friends in South Africa – people that have left, one in particular, who says he can’t go there – he said they take your land, and they kill you,” Trump said.

“It’s ok, and they say it’s ok to do it. We’re going to talk about it, this is all recent, these are people that recently got killed, and I don’t know how it can get any worse,” explains Trump.

President Ramaphosa told President Trump that he hoped the US leader would listen what his delegation had to say about the true situation in South Africa.

“It will take President Trump, listening to the voices of South Africans – some of whom are his good friends, like those who are here. When we have talks between us around a quiet table, it will take President Trump to listen to them. I am not going to be repeating what I’ve been saying.”

“I would say if there were Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you, these three – gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture, [John Steenhuisen] – he would not be with me. So, it will take … President Trump listening to their stories, [and] their perspectives,” explains Ramaphosa.

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