South Africa Sends Its Apartheid Peacemaker to Trump’s Washington

Roelf Meyer remembers what it felt like to walk into a room where the other side did not trust you. In the early 1990s, he was the face of a crumbling government — a white Afrikaner minister sent to negotiate the end of the system his own party had built. His counterpart was Cyril Ramaphosa, […]

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African Governments Must Rethink Engagement in Trump’s Washington D.C.

By Kevin Nolan – SVP and Director of Public Affairs – KARV and Liz Grossman – Co-Founder – Baobab Consulting President Trump’s first Oval Office meeting with an African leader, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, inevitably prompted a myriad of responses across global media, with such illustrative descriptors ranging from ‘ambush’ and ‘openly hostile’ to […]

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