In an Oval Office encounter in which the US president made false claims of ‘white genocide’, Cyril Ramaphosa kept his cool

• Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims ignore the reality of life and crime in South Africa

Many South Africans praised their president Cyril Ramaphosa for staying calm when Donald Trump ambushed him in the Oval Office with a video purporting to back up his false claims of a “genocide” against white Afrikaner farmers.

Others asked why Ramaphosa, who brought ministers, golfers and a billionaire with him, chose to walk into what he knew was likely to be a trap.