Are claims of a white genocide in South Africa real?
Thousands of white crosses have been displayed in Washington by an Afrikaner lobby group But South Africa's new ambassador Roelf Meyer says there is not a genocide.
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"the notion of a mass attack on the white Afrikaner minority in South Africa does not exist."
— Roelf Meyer , Politician
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Thousands of white crosses have been displayed in Washington by an Afrikaner lobby group But South Africa's new ambassador Roelf Meyer says there is not a genocide.
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