Trump’s ‘opposite of apartheid’ crusade contrasts with Reagan’s approach
Mihaela Chircă
CNN — The 40-year arc of US relations with South Africa goes something like this: ► In 1984, President Ronald Reagan wrote in his diary that Desmond Tutu was “naive” for pressuring him — unsuccessfully — to support sanctions to pressure South Africa to end apartheid. Reagan refused to confront South Africa’s White regime in that way. ► In 2025, President Donald Trump cut aid to South Africa back in February and then ambushed post-apartheid South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with right-
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