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South Africans praise Ramaphosa for keeping cool amid Trump attack

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    • 88:88
      It's not in the president's (Ramaphosa's) nature to be combative. (He) looks at issues calmly, matter-of-factly. I think that's what we (should) expect of our presidents,
      Reuters
      he added
    • 88:88
      I think Trump is naive and he's dealing with America's issues. So I don't think he has time to actually verify the facts,
      Reuters
      said Kudakwashi Mgwariri, a student at the University of the Witwatersrand
    • 88:88
      He didn’t get Zelenskyed. That's what we have to hang on to,
      Reuters
      Rebecca Davis of the national Daily Maverick, herself a white South African, wrote in a column
    • 88:88
      Most importantly, the two presidents engaged,
      Reuters
      he told Reuters by telephone
    • 88:88
      Patrick Gaspard
      Today’s performance, if it does not lead to meaningful reconciliation, will only create more downward pressure on poor South Africans who struggle,
      The New York Times
      said Patrick Gaspard, the former United States ambassador to South Africa
    • 88:88
      Cyril Ramaphosa
      It really touched my heart,
      The New York Times
      Mr. Ramaphosa said
    • 88:88
      You take a look at Australia, ... they’re being inundated and we’re being inundated with people that want to get out and their farm is valueless.”
      The Independent
      he repeated
    • 88:88
      It is absolutely absurd to sit and watch the president of the most powerful country in the world telling the man who negotiated to end apartheid, who was locked up solitary confinement, that there’s White genocide in South Africa which is a lie. That is crazy,
      CNN
      Nkosi told CNN
    • 88:88
      Kallie Kriel
      It shows that the South African president and the ANC leadership cannot just simply sweep real problems that we have in the country under the carpet and think they will disappear,
      CNN
      Kallie Kriel said in a voice note
    • 88:88
      You’re damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I think they were caught completely unawares. How on earth could you have planned for that
      CNN
      Nkosi, who’s a senior research fellow at the Africa Asia Dialogues think tank told CNN
    • 88:88
      Julius Malema
      A group of older men meet in Washington to gossip about me,
      CNN
      Malema, the Economic Freedom Fighters leader, responded in his typical fiery way on X ... he said, disputing the claims of a genocide
    • 88:88
      The question now is, from a fiscal perspective, what will the tax bill look like, and will it undo all of the recent fiscal frugality by simply raising the debt level at a slower rate of pace? So I think that’s why the 10-year yield is moving higher — because investors are worried that we’re really not doing anything to slow the pace of inflation and to reduce the debt,
      National Business Review
      Sam Stovall, CFRA Research chief investment strategist, told CNBC in an interview
    • 88:88
      Sean Parnell
      The secretary of defense has accepted a Boeing 747 from Qatar in accordance with all federal rules and regulations,
      National Business Review
      said Sean Parnell, chief Pentagon spokesperson, in a statement to the New York Times
    • 88:88
      Bitcoin’s new high has been concocted by an array of favorable ingredients in the macro cauldron, namely softer U.S. inflation numbers, a de-escalation in the U.S.-China trade war and the Moody’s downgrade of U.S. sovereign debt, which has put the spotlight on alternative stores of value like bitcoin,
      National Business Review
      CNBC reported Antoni Trenchev, cofounder of crypto exchange Nexo, as saying
    • 88:88
      The idea of a ‘white genocide’ taking place in South Africa is completely false,
      The Telegraph
      said Gareth Newham, head of a justice and violence prevention program at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa
    • 88:88
      Crime in South Africa is too high. If a murder is on a farm, we call it a farm murder. But remember that same night somebody was also murdered in the little township where the farm workers came from.”
      The Telegraph
      Johann Kotzé said
    • 88:88
      I was just hoping he didn’t play,
      The New York Times
      one goalkeeper said
    • 88:88
      You and I lived in New York in the 70s. We never thought that New York could be what it became,
      Hindustan Times
      he said
    • 88:88
      I don’t know what constitutes drama in your book, but that was very dramatic for me, and for everybody else in the room,
      Hindustan Times
      he said
    • 88:88
      Emmanuel Macron
      No, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60% of the total effort,
      CNN
      Macron said