Simon Allison
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305 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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completely unfounded nonsense, it really could have a very real world impact, which is why our president Cyril Ramaphosa took this so seriously.
And I know this will be lost on American viewers, but from a South African perspective, the makeup of the South African delegation was really, really interesting.
So you had there Cyril Ramaphosa, who
I don't know if you know much about President Ramaphosa, Don, but he's a fascinating man with a fascinating history.
He was a trade union leader who became one of the chief negotiators at the end of apartheid.
So this is a man who has sat in the room with white supremacists who were in power and he beat them.
I don't think he was especially daunted by sitting down with Donald Trump because he's done it before and he's won.
Go on, I'm sorry.
Go on.
Next to him, he brought his agriculture minister, John Steehan Hazen, who is the leader of the opposition, the Democratic Alliance.
And
John Steenhuysen, you know, Steenhuysen and Ramaphosa, like all coalition members everywhere in the world, are in constant battle.
And the government of national unity that we have is always on the brink of collapse.
And yet Steenhuysen came to Washington, D.C.,
with Cyril, to make Cyril's case for him.
A huge sort of political sacrifice that the DA was making to say, we're putting South Africa first, because this is too important.
Also in the room, and this was a really smart move, were two golfers, Ernie Els and Ratif Ghosn, white Afrikaners, worldwide stars of the game that Donald Trump loves the most.
And you could see in the interview,
Donald Trump was sitting there, and he kept looking.
He kept looking at Ernie Els.
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