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Ramaphosa to meet Trump on Wednesday over rising tensions

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. [AFP]

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet US counterpart Donald Trump in Washington next week at a time of strained ties between the two countries, Pretoria said in a statement released late on Wednesday.

Tensions have been rising for months over a range of policy issues, culminating this week in the United States resettling a first group of white Afrikaners that Trump claims are facing "persecution" in South Africa.

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