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Bloomberg
23-05-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
Short-Term Thinking Is Driving the US's Pivot Away from Africa
When South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat down for a meeting with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office this week, he was likely hoping to strengthen their relationship and boost trade between the two countries. Instead, Trump embarrassed the veteran politician in front of the world's media with a video that used out-of-context and inaccurate information to suggest that a genocide of White Afrikaner farmers is taking place in South Africa, along with seizures of their land. The genocide claim has been widely debunked, including by Afrikaner rights groups that decry murders of local farmers. (As if to head off the accusation, Ramaphosa brought two White South African professional golfers and the country's White agriculture minister to the meeting with Trump, saying, 'If there was Afrikaner farmer genocide I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here.') But that reality hasn't stopped the US from using the charges as justification to cease almost all aid to South Africa and boycott Group of 20 meetings being held in the country.
New York Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Corrections: May 17, 2025
An article on Friday about the Trump administration's approach to South Africa, relying on the account of a congressional official, referred incorrectly to the participation of Dan Dunham, an official at the National Security Council, at a meeting with members of an Afrikaner rights group this year. Mr. Dunham did not attend the meeting. An article on Thursday about the novelist Françoise Sagan misidentified the poet from whom Ms. Sagan took the title of her debut novel, 'Bonjour tristesse.' It is the second line of a poem by Paul Éluard, not Paul Valéry. An article this weekend on Page 22 about the actress Meghann Fahy misidentified the name of the fruit bouquet featured in the Netflix series 'Sirens.' It is the Delicious Party, not the Party Dipped Fruit Delight. An article this weekend on Page 86 about Coco Chanel's holiday home on the French Riviera misattributes the quote, 'You dress or not as you choose for dinner.' The line was written by the Vogue correspondent Bettina Wilson about Chanel's dinner parties at La Pausa; it was not said by Chanel. An article this weekend on Page 94 about the trio of artists known as PaJaMa refers incorrectly to the book 'Paul Cadmus: 49 Drawings.' It is a portfolio of drawings by Cadmus, not the catalog of an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth last year. Because of an editing error, an obituary on Friday about the actor Joe Don Baker misstated the year the movie 'Junior Bonner' was released. As noted correctly in a picture caption, it was 1972, not 1971. Errors are corrected during the press run whenever possible, so some errors noted here may not have appeared in all editions.
