Claims of a white genocide are widely discredited, so how do Afrikaners feel about Trump's claims – and offer of refugee status?

Within hours of the newscast, Mr. Trump had fired off a tweet claiming that there was “large-scale killing” of white farmers in South Africa, and that he had directed the State Department to “closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations.”

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has strongly criticized white Afrikaners seeking refuge in the U.S., labeling them as cowards for abandoning their country's challenges. This condemnation follows the Trump administration's controversial decision to offer them asylum,