South African leader and Trump to meet after ‘genocide’ allegations

FILE – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (Jerome Delay/AP, File)

US president Donald Trump and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa are scheduled to meet at the White House next week following allegations by Mr Trump — and denied by South Africa — that “genocide” is being committed against white farmers in the majority black country.

The meeting, announced on Wednesday by the South African government and set for May 21, also comes after the US welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees this Monday, the start of what the Trump administration said is a larger relocation plan for minority Afrikaner farmers who Mr Trump has claimed are being persecuted in their homeland because of their race.