President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to hold talks at the White House next week.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will visit the White House next week, his office said Thursday, days after the arrival in the U.S. of the first group of White South Africans, having been granted refugee status under a new Trump administration policy.

President Cyril Ramaphosa called the white South Africans “cowardly” for leaving for the United States. President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa said the white South Africans who left for the United States after being granted refugee status by President Trump were “cowardly,” as tensions mount between the two countries.