Here’s a cartoon from Friday’s South African daily newspaper Die Burger (‘The Citizen’).
‘Would you mind if one of my caddies tried?’
(The caddies are Ernie Els and Retief Goosen— professional South African golfers who were part of the delegation to the White House. )
The sidebar comment in the corner is:
‘It looks as if Cyril stayed out of the rough’.
AGOA stands for the African Growth and Opportunity Act agreement, signed in 2000, which allowed tariff-free exports to the United States for 32 African countries.
On April 2, Trump had slapped a 31 % reciprocal tariff on South Africa (now on the 90-day pause). The USA’s universal 10 % tariff on overseas goods remains in place, also for South Africa.
From aljazeera.com:
While the two countries did not confirm a trade agreement at Wednesday’s meeting, Ramaphosa told reporters afterwards that the discussion was “a great success”. He added that he presented a framework for a trade deal to Trump, and the two agreed to continue having discussions to figure out the specifics of this deal.