By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South African President Cyril Ramaphosa heads to the White House on Wednesday on a perilous mission to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to make deals with his country rather than scold and punish it as he has done since the start of his second term.

Cyril Ramaphosa will visit the White House after relations with the U.S. deteriorated over race, Israel and trade.

U.S. aid unleashed a flood of lifesaving antiretroviral pediatric drugs. It funded doctors and data systems. It helped build an ultramodern medical facility in the center of the country, known as the Miracle Campus,

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration's cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its aid programs worldwide have been "devastating." Speaking beside South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a White House visit,