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President Cyril Ramaphosa chairs the G20 Summit in Nasrec, Johannesburg.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema has praised President Cyril Ramaphosa on how he handled the G20 tensions with the United States (US).
The US pulled out of this year’s G20 meeting after initially confirming that it would attend the meeting in Nasrec, Johannesburg.
It has also made its intentions known that it will not be inviting South Africa in next year’s G20 meeting in Miami, Florida.
Malema says that Ramaphosa has handled the matter well because it is not easy fighting America.
He says, “Ramaphosa handled this saga very well, if it was me, it would have been worse. You see, that’s the thing with diplomacy and radicalism and all of that, you ought to strike a balance. The guy handled that thing very well, very successfully, in a situation where he was confronted by serious hostility, it’s not easy to fight America, it has never been easy, but like Fidel Castro we’re not going to retreat.”
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Malema has characterised US President Donald Trump as the reincarnation of Germany dictator Adolf Hitler.
He says this is for his stance in Venezuela, the Middle East and funding the genocide in Palestine.
Tensions between SA and the US have been high since Trump’s re-election as US president.
This for his unsubstantiated claims that there are human rights abuses against white Afrikaners.
Malema says, “The onslaught on the people of Venezuela for the sole and admitted purpose of taking over Venezuela’s oil refineries, the manipulation of the electoral processes in numerous elections in Latin America, the disruptive role of Donald Trump in the Middle East, including threat to colonize the Gaza Strip after funding the genocide of Palestinians, has resulted in the EFF correctly characterizing Donald Trump as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler.”
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