United State president Donald Trump has clashed with his South African counterpart, President Cyril Ramaphosa, over claims of white farmer violence.
The tense meeting was televised from the White House, with Trump showing print outs of news articles and reel of clips on TV around the topic, claiming that white Afrikaner farmers were facing "death, death, death, horrible death".
"White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws," Trump said, having recently opened the U.S. to several dozen white South African farmers under the status of refugees.
He also claimed Australia was being "inundated" with white farmers fleeing.
“You take a look at Australia — they're being inundated, and we're being inundated with people that want to get out, and their farm is valueless.”
Despite the confrontational tone of the talks, Ramaphosa started out friendly, saying he wanted to “reset the relationship between the United States and South Africa”.
However, both he and his country firmly rebuke the allegations, echoed by Trump, that white people are disproportionately targeted by crime, and earlier this year, the High Court in the nation's Western Cape ruled that claims of white genocide were "clearly imagined and not real" in a case earlier this year.
