ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has described President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the United States as “mission accomplished”.

Ramaphosa led a delegation of four ministers, some business people, golf players and labour on a working visit to Washington to reset bilateral relations.

This follows erroneous genocide claims earlier by Trump as the reason for allowing some white Afrikaners to seek refugee status in the US.

This is despite the UN not having ruled that white Afrikaners should have such status.

Mbalula says the president did a good job for the country.

“I think we may want to characterise yesterday a mission accomplished because many things have been said about SA. It took the head of state to go to White House to sit down with President Trump and to put the record straight for the first time, face to face. The president must be applauded for that. He is doing it for his country. He is not doing for himself to protect the interest of South Africans and I think yesterday resetting the button meant that the diplomatic channels will actually be opened. So, it’s a great achievement for South Africa,” says Mbalula.