By Simon Nare
President Cyril Ramaphosa will not be sending a delegation to the US to explain the mischaracterisation of the country by Afrikaans group, which has strained diplomatic relations between the two countries, according to presidential spokesperson Vincent Magwenya.
He told reporters during a briefing on the president’s schedule on Thursday that there was nothing to explain to Donald Trump’s administration because there were no land grabs in the country as the US president believed.
Magwenya said South Africa would rather focus on taking the damaged diplomatic relations forward, and if the US had genuine concerns, the government was available to address them.
“The president is on record to say he does not want to send a delegation to the US that will go to explain ourselves because there is nothing to explain. There is no land grabs in South Africa. We are not engaged in sinister relations with
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