South Africa's latest crime statistics debunk claims that a genocide is being committed against white people, the country's police minister has said. The widely discredited allegation was amplified by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday,

US President Donald Trump confronted his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, over widely discredited claims of a white genocide in South Africa, during an Oval Office meeting on Wednesday.

Donald Trump has proved to be the political Rottweiler of right-wing Afrikaner groups, taking their fight to South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa.