Topping the agenda at President Donald Trump's meeting with South Africa's president at the White House this week is the extraordinary new U.S. refugee policy welcoming white Afrikaner farmers who the Trump administration claims are persecuted.

Land ownership remains an explosive issue in South Africa more than three decades after White-minority rule ended. It’s also at the center of a diplomatic row with the US, as President Donald Trump and his Pretoria-born billionaire ally Elon Musk falsely claim that the South African government is engaging in land grabs and that there’s a genocide against White Afrikaner farmers.

President Cyril Ramaphosa is set for a White House visit on Wednesday, and some fear a "Zelensky-style ambush."