South Africans split into Donald Trump's attack on Cyril Ramaphosa

Donald Trump has proven to be a political Rottweiler of a right-wing African group in battle with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

They quickly celebrated the ambush of the US President Ramaphosa in the oval office. This was a solidarity movement that toured the US to lobby the Trump administration, and welcomed the fact that South Africa “is a big issue on the international stage.”

Ernst Roetz, the main character of Africa, has shown his praise for the President of the United States.

“Donald Trump made history today,” he said in a post on X. He is grateful for the video that Firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema sang “Shooting Boer (Afrikaner) and shooting farmers,” and what appears to be attacked by a white story.

Solidarity Jaco Kleynhans went further, saying Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for “putting a farm murder crisis on the international agenda.”

However, Afrikaner's political columnist Pieter Du's ambush showed that “exaggeration, exaggeration, exaggeration and misinformation were provided by South African activists to the American right-wing ecosystem.”

Like many South Africans, he praised Ramaphosa for his measured handling of encounters in the White House, smiling as Trump frowned.

But many people are upset with right-wing groups and say they have shown a lack of patriotism by lobbying the Trump administration to hold tight boundaries against the country.

Such critics point to the fact that South Africa has a unified government of its people – to tackle countless issues in the country made up of ten parties from racial and ideological disparities – from high crime levels that affect all races and classes to unemployment rates of 32%, blacks struggle the most.

For many South Africans, “Rainbow Nation” was on display at the White House.

The government's delegation included John Steenhuisen, South Africa's most senior white politician. This is the Minister of Agriculture, heading the Democratic Alliance (DA), South Africa's second largest party.

He acknowledged that South Africa has “real safety issues,” adding that “it takes a lot of effort to get to that.”

“We're going to need more policing resources,” he said.

However, he dismissed the view that most white farmers were fleeing. “It's true that most South African commercial and smallholder farmers really want to stay in South Africa and make it work.”

Trump's video amplifies the role of the opposition Economic Freedom Fighter (EFF) party in South Africa's politics, showing its leader singing the song “Shoot the Boer.”

The party advocates nationalisation of the land, and Julius Malema enjoys singing at his political rallies.

The song was once an anti-apartheid national anthem, and African lobby groups tried to ban it. However, South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeals decided that “when a song of protest is sung by a politician, the words would understand that “when they were literally not intended to be understood, and that they were not even a gesture of shooting as a call to weapons or violence.”

Instead, the song was to end “land and economic injustice.”

Ramaphosa pointed out to Trump that South Africa is a democracy, and while the government was “completely against” what Malema said, the EFF had the right to exist under the Constitution.

The EFF fell to fourth place in last year's parliamentary elections. Ramaphosa refused to give Malema political oxygen by making a deal with him to form a coalition government after the polls didn't produce a complete winner.

Steenhuisen told Trump that the DA, a central party representing the free market economy, has joined the government to help the EFF go out and tackle South Africa's issues.

“This government works together and needs the support of allies around the world, so we can strengthen our hands, grow our economy and close the doors of rebels (malema) that pass through the doors of the coalition building (the seat of government), forever,” he said.

Steenhuisen and Ramaphosa hold the right and EFF of Afrikaner, the middle ground in South African politics.

Ramaphosa promised to defend unity and, after the end of the White Minority Rules in 1994, called out the name of the anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, a symbol of racial reconciliation in South Africa.

However, some Africans felt that they could no longer live in South Africa, and Trump provided them with refugee status. Of these, 60 have been resettled in the United States.

Trump has supported the right wing, some of which gathered outside the US embassy in Pretoria, South Africa's capital, in February, to “make South Africa great again” placard – Trump's “make America great again.”

South Africa's Minister of Land Reform Mzwanele Nyhontso admitted that meetings in the oval office were “unpleasant to see.”

“There is no genocide in South Africa… South Africa has crime, just like any other country, and this crime affects many people,” he told the BBC's News Tour program.

Nyhontso praised Ramaphosa for keeping his calm rather than coming back to Trump when he ambushed.

The South African president also praised his tactics – bringing famous African golfers to meetings to ease tensions.

When invited to talk, Ernie Elles took out his South African passport to prove his patriotism – and after he united the country at the end of apartheid, he spoke of his respect for Mandela – but he said he wanted to see South Africa flourish with the help of America.

Retief Gosen added more fuel to the fire, perhaps about how difficult it was for his brother to farm outside the northern town of Polokwane.

Despite his fear of crime, he ended by saying, “No matter what's going on, the guys are living a great life.”

Johann Rupert, a billionaire businessman who is also an African, noted that South Africa's highest murder rate is in the town of Cape Town, with most residents in black or color – as mixed race people are known in South Africa – and the mercy of violent gangs.

Jingiswa Roshi, president of South Africa's largest union, spoke about the devastating situation in rural areas where Trump has a “black majority.”

“We'll see women, elderly people, raped, killed and murdered,” she said.

She urged the delegation to address the issues through trade and create jobs.

“The South African issue is not necessarily about race, but about crime.”

That's an sentiment that most South Africans agree with.