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US President Donald Trump has confronted South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House with the most contentious areas of dispute between the countries, including claims of a "white genocide". The South African President has maintained there is no genocide targeting the white Afrikaner minority.

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has come to Washington to meet with US President Donald Trump - and like many such meetings in the White House, it started off on a jovial note. RAMAPHOSA: "I'm sorry I don't have a plane to give you."

TRUMP: "I wish you did. If your country offered the US Air Force a plane, I would take it."

But the meeting quickly took on a different tone.

In scenes reminiscent of Mr Trump's February ambush of Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the US President accused the South African government of overseeing a genocide of Afrikaaners, a white minority group, under a land expropriation law signed in January.

TRUMP: "But you do, which allow them to take land."

RAMAPHOSA: "No, no, no, no no."

TRUMP: "You do allow them to take the land and then when they take the land and they...

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