US President Donald Trump says a genocide is taking place in South Africa, a claim a judge dismissed as "imaginary".

The Trump administration is resettling Afrikaners in the United States after halting admission for other refugees. Here’s what to know.

American officials welcomed a group of 59 white South Africans at Washington Dulles International Airport on Monday afternoon, in a ceremony greeting them as refugees based on the argument that they are fleeing discrimination and racially based violence in their home country.