Darlene Superville, a White House correspondent, is currently under fire for describing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as an unidentified leader.
Superville, who is currently in France covering President Donald Trump’s activities at the ongoing G7 summit, tweeted a picture with the caption, “ World leader bear hug before the group photo @ #G7Summit in Biarritz, France. @EmmanuelMacron @narendramodi @JustinTrudeau and one unidentified leader.”
The tweet which didn’t go down well with South Africans currently has 2400 replies as the time of failing this report.
Many have been asking her to take it down but rather than do so, Superville tweeted with a caption of the South African leader, hours later.
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World leader group hug before the group photo at #G7Summit in Biarritz, France. @EmmanuelMacron @CyrilRamaphosa @JustinTrudeau @narendramodi
https://twitter.com/dsupervilleap/status/1165990050783551490?s=20
Superville has worked at the White House for more than eight years. She was among members of a five-person team assigned to cover the presidency of Barack Obama.
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World leader bear hug before the group photo @ #G7Summit in Biarritz, France. @EmmanuelMacron @narendramodi @JustinTrudeau and one unidentified leader. pic.twitter.com/Ij9PsYrV2j
— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) August 25, 2019
Below are some reactions to her initial tweet:
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https://twitter.com/NMadzenga/status/1165887853575966725?s=20
https://twitter.com/AlastairMcA30/status/1165852241242152960?s=20
Ahhh – @dsupervilleap an ignorant @WhiteHouse journalist… unsurprisingly so…
— Maggs Naidu ᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@maggsnaidu) August 26, 2019
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Darlene, darling, that's our whole honourable president, Cyril Ramaphosa. We love him, you have p*ssed of an entire country.
Advertisement— Gillian Faichnie (@GillianF) August 26, 2019
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https://twitter.com/EloquentTash/status/1165873614866046976?s=20
She can identify all the white men but she is unaware of the only African and black president in the picture. Shame shame
Advertisement— Charles Mwania (@carlmwania) August 26, 2019
That's @CyrilRamaphosa
🇿🇦He sold nuclear technology to Iran
🇿🇦All SO responsible for #FarmMurders
🇿🇦his goverment is All SO discriminating aganst minority
equivalent to the apartheid gov
🇿🇦25 years of serving #SouthAfrica has made him one of the richesthttps://t.co/MMM3IXAvAH— Matt (@PrimevalAfrica) August 26, 2019
https://twitter.com/SibusisoMtungwa/status/1165848255818846208?s=20
Wow unidentified leader, you didn't bother to find out who he is?
— what’s next? (@Buzz_OnYa) August 26, 2019
No guys this reporter is disrespecting our president. We might differ with President Cyril Ramaphosa on our domestic affairs but outside of our borders he is our president and must be respected.
— Azania (@azania1023) August 26, 2019
The "unidentified leader" is President @CyrilRamaphosa – the president of the mighty Republic of South Africa!
The beautiful land of diverse and great people! pic.twitter.com/L71t7bPFLc
— Monwabisi Kete 🇿🇦 (@MonwabisiKete) August 26, 2019
And that one unidentified leader happens to be BLACK. You clearly had no interest in identifying him. Trashy behavior
— Black & Blessed ❤❤✌ (@Mama_Bridgie) August 26, 2019
you're exceptionally lazy and this is embarrassing for you especially in the age where you can even do a search with images. do better
— Mimi (@Msaaminahsblog) August 26, 2019
Wow the @AP really got the cream of the crop here. 😑
— Titty Mboweni* 🇵🇸 (@PearlPillay) August 26, 2019
What kind of journalism is this that lacks the professional curiosity to find out who a world leader is? Some have called it many names, I call it INCOMPETENCE laced with professional laziness! For the benefit of your followers, it is @CyrilRamaphosa the president of South Africa
— Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) August 26, 2019
Unidentified leader really?, it only takes 1min to search on Google South African president and you would've found his Twitter handle are you that lazy or you just left him out because he is African. pic.twitter.com/Fj5FxUwUAU
— Don Buthelezi 🇿🇦 (@siya6888) August 26, 2019
🤣🤣🤣
— Khaya Sithole (@CoruscaKhaya) August 26, 2019
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