Are claims of a white genocide in South Africa real?

Are claims of a white genocide in South Africa real?

For context, an Afrikaner lobby group has displayed thousands of white crosses on the National Mall in Washington DC, saying they represent the victims of a genocide of white individuals in South Africa.

But South Africa's new ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer, notes that the notion of a mass attack on the white Afrikaner minority in South Africa does not exist.

Meanwhile, the Trump administration is planning to admit up to 17, 500 extra white Afrikaners as refugees over the next 12 months, according to a notice sent to Congress on Tuesday.

In practice, the BBC's North America correspondent Ione Wells explains what role the US has played in the claim of a genocide. You are now after United States.

Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. You are now after Donald Trump.

Taken together, the developments around are claims of a white genocide in South Africa real? Point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.