Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
Freight News, Eugene Goddard
Despite all the noise and drama following Trump’s provocative stunt in the Oval Office, when he played an inflammatory video about farm murders in South Africa, Steenhuisen described the trade meeting that was held behind closed doors thereafter as constructive and optimistic.
“The meeting was never going to be easy. It wasn’t going to be a cake walk. It was always going to be tough, but I do think we left Washington in better shape than when we went in,” he told 702.
Ahead of the visit, there was clear agreement that South Africa needed to restore and rebalance its import-export relationship with the country’s second-biggest trading partner.
To that extent, he said a lot of preparation had been done behind the scenes by his own department along with the departments of ministers Parks Tau (Trade, Industry and Competition), and Ronald Lamola (International Relations and Cooperation), as well as Khumbudzo Phophi (Presidency).
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