(Ret.) Col. Chris Wyatt: Trump will 'Zelensky' Cyril & issues warning for Afrikaners

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As strained relations between South Africa and the United States continue to hog the headlines, US Intelligence Analyst retired Colonel Chris Wyatt warns that President Cyril Ramaphosa will have to cut a deal with President Donald Trump to repair the discord. “I think that he's going to have to make some kind of concession vis-a-vis Afrikaners or minority South Africans of some sort.” However, that could cost Ramaphosa support in his own party. “I think that Ramaphosa is in a difficult spot and I can't wait to see what comes from this conversation between Trump and Ramaphosa because it could go well, it could be a disaster or it could be a complete disaster and I'm concerned that we might be a complete disaster. If Ramaphosa goes to America and tries to lecture Trump, he'll be shown the door like Zelensky was.” Meanwhile, Wyatt also warns Afrikaners who want to gain refugee status in America, to keep quiet about their plans. “…there are people with malicious intent on the left and the right politically in South Africa who are not happy about this refugee programme, Afrikaners who don't like it and others on the other side of spectrum who don’t like it. So my advice to those people is to shut your mouths, loose lips, sink ships, World War II phrase…you have to have what we call operational security in the military.” Wyatt further decribes the unprecedented racial tension he has witnessed on his latest visit to South Africa. “This whole situation with the refugee programme causing all kinds of consternation and it's emboldening people. But it's not just the refugee programme. In my view, it's also the expropriation without compensation.”
2 May 2025 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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