{"id":49953,"date":"2026-11-04T12:49:47","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49953"},"modified":"2026-11-04T12:49:47","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T10:49:47","slug":"sa-hails-new-political-era-after-us-midterms","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-hails-new-political-era-after-us-midterms\/","title":{"rendered":"SA hails new political era after US midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South African (SA) President Cyril Ramaphosa said on \u200bWednesday that the results from midterm elections in the United \u200cStates (US) would usher in a new era in world relations, after millions of voters delivered a scathing rebuke to President Donald Trump.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Relations between S\u200bA and the US are at a low point.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This \u200bweek Trump&#8217;s administration moved to end SA&#8217;s duty-free \u2060access to the US market, after last year cutting financial \u200baid and expelling its previous ambassador to Washington.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trump has targeted the \u200bcountry largely due to what he says is its persecution of white people, which SA says is a false narrative spread by fringe \u200bgroups.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;We have seen that the Democrats have taken control of \u200bthe Senate and of the House, and the people of America have spoken. \u200cI \u2060do think that this is going to introduce a new era in world relations,&#8221; Ramaphosa told reporters after casting his vote in SA&#8217;s municipal elections taking place on Wednesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ramaphosa said Monday&#8217;s announcement that \u200bSA would \u200bbe suspended \u2060from Washington&#8217;s African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade initiative from January &#8220;is indeed a negative for us&#8221; and that the focus \u200bshould be on negotiating a bilateral trade agreement \u200bwith \u2060the US.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Whilst we are sad that we&#8217;ve been removed from AGOA, our trade relations with the US continue,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ramaphosa \u2060said SA had been working to secure \u200bnew export markets and &#8220;diversification has now become the order of the day&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":30059,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-49953","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"'The results from midterm elections in the US would usher in a new era'","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49955,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49953\/revisions\/49955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}