US President Donald Trump and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa are set for a White House showdown next week following allegations that Cape Town is committing 'genocide' against white farmers.
The meeting announcement comes days after the US welcomed 59 white South Africans as refugees, the start of what the Trump administration said is a larger relocation plan for minority Afrikaner farmers.
South Africa denies the allegations and says whites in the majority black country are not being singled out for persecution.
Ramaphosa's office said he will be in the US from Monday to Thursday of next week, and will meet with Trump on Wednesday at the White House.
He hopes to 'reset the strategic relationship between the two countries' after months of increasing tensions.
