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Examining ‘white genocide’ claims in South Africa | BBC News

South Africa's new ambassador to Washington, Roelf Meyer, has a personal reason to challenge US President Donald Trump's assertion that there is a genocide against white Afrikaners - he is "a born Afrikaner" himself. The notion of a mass attack on the white Afrikaner minority in South Africa does not exist, he told the BBC, adding that his identity gave him the legitimacy to say so. Meyer was one of the chief mediators to end white-minority rule known as apartheid in South Africa in the 1990s, and he was appointed ambassador to the US in April, after diplomatic relations between the US and So…