Al Arabiya editor: South Africa & US often at odds

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00:00South Africa needs investment, and so will Ramaphosa sit there.

00:03So is he going to go to the White House and get what he wants?

00:07I think maybe Ali can talk more about the politics,

00:10but South Africa has been consistently on the other side

00:15compared to the United States of America for the last many years now.

00:20When it comes to the problem with Russia, they haven't been aligned.

00:23When it comes to the problem in Gaza, they haven't been aligned.

00:26When it comes to the G20 politics, they haven't been aligned.

00:30So he could not expect Trump to be completely friendly.

00:34Now, at the same time, South Africa is a very inspiring country for the world.

00:41Maybe not for the current generation as much as it was for the last 30 years.

00:47Unfortunately, South Africa did not live up to the dream we all had in 1994

00:53when the fall of the apartheid brought so much positivity to this world.

01:00Having said this, and I go to South Africa a lot,

01:04it's a country that is much more appeased in real life.

01:10I mean, of course, the biggest problem is corruption and crime.

01:13We all know this.

01:14But it's a country that somehow many in this country

01:17still believe in the idea of the Rainbow Nation.

01:20And I get to the South Africa a lot of people say,

01:23OK, I don't know if he really is a community in Australia.

01:24If we can get to the South Africa,

01:26we're going to have one close California hopper

01:27and we're going to have somebody that遇ств us 16 جoto

01:30to take out the up root system.

01:32We're going to have four national proposals.

01:35So I think that that it's been hub how many times

01:37are the only thing that other people play out.

01:39And there they are less than having people

01:41to be able to survive in the field.

01:42Because it's a country have been not been rakene.

01:44From a country about it now,

01:45we're like people who were carga trzeba