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Despite Washington’s visa restrictions and diplomatic hostility, the South African president is taking a high-powered delegation to California to seek technology investment, with a possible encounter with Elon Musk.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is headed to Silicon Valley in California to court America’s tech giants in defiance of President Donald Trump’s efforts to blacklist his country. The week-long visit, scheduled for 15-21 November, will take him to California, with Washington notably absent from the itinerary. However, the presidency has not ruled out a possible stop in the US capital.
