# South Africa’s new US ambassador says white genocide does not exist

https://mins.news/en/item/74718

- BBC News, 2026-09-25 23:20 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2l8qv7zppko?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Roelf Meyer, South Africa’s new ambassador to Washington and a born Afrikaner, rejects Donald Trump’s claim that white Afrikaners are facing genocide. The Trump administration says Afrikaners are being raped, maimed, killed and driven from their property, and plans to admit up to 17,500 additional white Afrikaner refugees over the next year.

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