Senzo Mchunu: South Africa crime statistics debunk 'white genocide' claims

Of the six most recent victims of farm killings, five were black and one white, the latest figures show.

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The widely discredited allegation was amplified by US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, in an extraordinary meeting with his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa.

Trump told Ramaphosa that white farmers in South Africa were being killed and "persecuted".

On Friday, South African Police Minister Senzo Mchunu said that between January and March, five out of the six people killed on farms were black and one was white.

The white victim lived on a farm, while the black people who were killed comprised two farm owners, two employees and one manager.