00:00Well, South Africa's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom says he hopes President Ramaphosa's visit to the U.S. will reset relations between the two countries.
00:08He's been speaking to CGTN's Lee Jan-Hwa.
00:11I expect, hopefully, hopefully, that of course we will reset the relations,
00:19that there is an understanding of these difficult issues that have emerged,
00:26amongst which is whether there is genocide in South Africa or there isn't any genocide,
00:34whether the claim to refugee status by some certain people is justified or is not justified.
00:44I mean, if we could have that understanding, we have taken the position in South Africa
00:50that we would be cool, we would continue to make sure that there are delegations that go to America
00:59to explain these positions, wherever there's been falsification of positions.
01:06Hopefully, they can be clarified by our interventions, such as the one you have of the president.
01:12But not only that, the president has been, even before that, sending envoys and so on,
01:18to talk to not just President Trump and the Republicans in power,
01:25but the congressmen and women who wield a lot of power in terms of decisions that are made policy-wise in America and otherwise.
01:36So, our conviction is that we will continue this diplomatic approach,
01:42which is really to explain our position, and our position is very clear.
01:48We have to build from the past of apartheid.
01:53We have to build a unified nation, both black and white, in South Africa,
01:59that is disregarding all the tendencies of the past,
02:05amongst which was discrimination of any group, race, or any discrimination based on race, gender, or sex.
02:16We uphold those, because in South Africa, we know practically what that means.
02:21We have suffered decades and decades of that kind of attention.
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