Cyril Ramaphosa has said he will meet Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit next week, less than a month after the South African president was ambushed in the Oval Office.

Mr Ramaphosa said his main aim was to reset relations with the White House during the summit in Canada.

“I am going there to have bilaterals with the chancellor of Germany, the prime minister of Canada and, of course, I will also be meeting President Trump, who we met at the White House,” he told reporters in Pretoria.

He had the merest hint of a smile before addressing one of the reporters directly and breaking into laughter: “You were there when they started dimming the lights...”