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South Africa is attempting to court China in the wake of the Oval Office meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump last month, in which South African President Cyril Ramaphosa argued with Trump over “genocide.”

“Thousands” of white South African refugees may be in the United States by the end of the summer as massive amounts of applications from Afrikaners — an ethnic minority in the country — continue to pour in, the Daily Caller reported.

Conservative author Michael Savage cited Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak this week on his Newsmax show, Savage Nation, in evaluating the question of whether there is in fact a “genocide” in South Africa.

Multiple reports published this week indicate that the Houthi Shiite terrorist organization based in Yemen is seeking to expand its relationship with Sunni jihadist groups across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in Somalia, particularly al-Shabaab.

Nigerian Mining Minister Dele Alake announced on Monday that his government will commission two large lithium processing plants from Chinese firms this year, one of them valued at $600 million and the other at $200 million.

A Baptist refugee charity group in North Carolina is welcoming some newly-arrived white South Africans with furnished apartments, following the departure of an Episcopal group from a taxpayer-funded refugee program due to the inclusion of said Afrikaners.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed Monday that U.S. President Donald Trump had agreed that the United States should attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, in November, after meeting last week.

Chief Rabbi of South Africa Warren Goldstein released a video Sunday in which he said President Donald Trump was right to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week about genocidal rhetoric.

South African opposition figure Julius Malema led his Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party on Sunday in chants of “Kill the Boer,” “Shoot to kill,” and “Kill the farmer,” while President Cyril Ramaphosa stayed quiet.

Afriforum, whch represents Afrikaners in South Africa, argued Sunday that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) should dismiss South Africa’s “genocide” case against Israel based on its failure to stop genocidal “kill the Boer” rhetoric.

Over 180 miners remain trapped in a South African gold mine after its hoist system was damaged in an accident.

The State Department on Thursday accused Sudan’s military of using chemical weapons during its long and brutal civil war against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The junta that rules Sudan denied the allegations and accused Washington of siding with the RSF.

The anti-American BRICS coalition largely remained silent this week as the president of one of its core members, South Africa, faced a humiliating excoriation at the White House.

Reuters noted that the image on the article was from the DRC, not South Africa — but the article delved extensively into South Africa’s racial policies.

The South African government published a draft regulation Friday allowing foreign companies to meet a 30% quota of black ownership through “equivalents” such as investing in projects aimed at economic equality.

China’s government-run Global Times propaganda newspaper defended the government of South Africa in its coverage of President Cyril Ramaphosa visiting the White House on Thursday, claiming that President Donald Trump’s evidence of normalized genocidal sentiment against white people in the country was a “conspiracy theory.”

The South African media, which initially saw President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday as a disaster, is now proclaiming it to have been a triumph.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa tried to put a brave face on his meetings with President Donald Trump on Wednesday, though he appeared to admit he made little headway, even in a private meeting.

President Donald Trump’s meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa — which featured a surprise video showing radical politicians calling for the murder of white Afrikaners — was “the most important thing to happen to South Africa since apartheid ended,” Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak said in a fiery Fox News interview.

South African politician Julius Malema, the leader of the radical Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, responded to President Donald Trump’s claims about “genocide” Wednesday by reiterating calls to kill white farmers.

President Donald Trump’s meeting Wednesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa began cordially — but when Ramaphosa protested against claims of “genocide,” Trump turned on a video.

President Donald Trump meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday, May 21.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is bringing champion golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen to the White House with him in an effort to charm President Donald Trump during their meetings on Wednesady.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio clashed with Democrats over the Trump administration’s recent acceptance of South African refugees, telling Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) that he does not “like the fact that they’re white” in a Tuesday exchange.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday that South Africa opposes the United States on “issue after issue after issue” in foreign policy.

South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa said his goal is “a really good trade deal,” but his country is violating AGOA and he is not offering compromises Trump wants.

South Africa’s visiting delegation to the United States reportedly hopes to entice former South African Elon Musk to back a trade deal by offering him lower tariffs on Teslas in return for building charging stations.

The attitude of the South African delegation seems to be that they are going to Washington to argue with Trump. If so, they may be in for a comeuppance.

John Steenhuisen, leader of the Democratic Alliance, an opposition party that entered a governing coalition with the ruling African National Congress (ANC), says Afrikaner refugees made a “mistake” by leaving.

The Trump administration is considering a plan to move one million Palestinians from Gaza — roughly half the current population — to Libya and resettle them there.

Nigeria has signed a major agreement with a Chinese arms manufacturer to build a munitions factory on Nigerian soil.

A West African terrorist group called Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin (JNIM) claims it killed 200 soldiers when it attacked an army base in Burkina Faso on Sunday.

Cooper repeated an oft-cited, but inaccurate, claim that black South Africans only own 4% of privately owned land.

The Ethiopian Finance Ministry announced on Tuesday that a two-day investment conference in Addis Ababa produced $1.7 billion dollars in investment deals, most of them from Chinese companies.

CLAIM: White South Africans — members of the Afrikaner, or Boer, minority group — do not face racial discrimination or persecution by the South African government.