Tuesday's raid occurred at a center that processes applications by white South Africans who have been given priority for refugee status in the U.S. by the Trump administration.

The Trump administration has been using illegal foreign labour to process the white South Africans who are being granted refugee status in the United States under a controversial new U.S. program, the South African government says.

Ideas of white racial superiority are a threat to South Africa's post-apartheid unity, its sovereignty and its diplomatic relations, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday, calling for global efforts to debunk false stories about white persecution.

Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in South Africa’s white Afrikaner minority.

South Africa’s Ramaphosa has warned that rising ideas of white racial superiority are threatening the country’s post-apartheid unity and international relations. Speaking at an ANC conference, he urged global efforts to counter false narratives of “white persecution” circulating abroad.

Minister Gayton McKenzie thanked German Ambassador to South Africa, Andreas Peschke, for defending the country amid the claims of a white genocide.