US President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday by showing him a video allegedly showing harsh treatment of white farmers.
Trump has claimed that white South African farmers are being massacred and forced off their lands.
"They're being killed, we don't want to see people being killed. The leadership of South Africa is coming to see me. There's a genocide going on, and you're not writing about them. Farmers are being killed, they're white farmers, whether they're white or black I don't care. But they're being killed and their land is being confiscated. What's happening there is terrible. We've offered citizenship to these people, to leave there and come here," Trump had previously stated at a press conference.
This is not the first time that Trump and Ramaphosa have clashed.
In 2018, during his first term, Trump received criticism from the South African government after posting what South African officials called "false information" via social media regarding the "large-scale killing of farmers" in the country.
Trump asked then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "closely study" the situation, following a report from Fox News citing that "the South African government is now usurping land from white farmers."