President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had a dramatic confrontation over baseless allegations that white farmers are being systematically targeted for persecution and murder.

Tensions rose as the South African president and golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen met President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, addressing claims of violence against Afrikaners.

Donald Trump’s interest in South Africa reached a new level this month, as his administration made a dramatic exception to its opposition to refugees and welcomed a group of white South Africans. The president repeatedly insisted that their race was irrelevant,

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s top law enforcement official said Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white farmers and he “twisted” the facts to push a false narrative about mass killings of white people in his country.