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South African white genocide does not exist, new ambassador to US tells BBC
Roelf Meyer tells the BBC that being a white Afrikaner gives him legitimacy to challenge Trump's claim of a genocide.
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South Africa's new ambassador to Washington has a personal reason to challenge Donald Trump's assertion that there is a genocide against white Afrikaners - he is "a born Afrikaner" himself.
"Is he talking about us?", Roelf Meyer remembers thinking, when he first heard President Trump say it.
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.
"I'm an Afrikaner from South Africa myself," Ambassador Meyer said, "and I can say that I've never experienced something of that kind."