A meeting meant to soothe tensions between the US and South Africa instead spiralled as President Donald Trump put his counterpart on the defensive with claims that white farmers in his nation were "persecuted". On Wednesday, a week after the US granted asylum to nearly 60 Afrikaners - a move that rankled South Africa - President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the White House to reset the countries' relations. Instead, Trump surprised Ramaphosa during a live news conference with widely discredited claims of a "white genocide" in South Africa.
He played a video showing a protest exhibit of thousands of crosses lining a road - claiming they were burial sites for murdered white farmers. Trump said he did not know where in South Africa it was filmed and the footage has not been verified by the BBC.
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