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GERALD IMRAY (Associated Press)

Why Trump's allegations that white people are being persecuted in South Africa have been denied

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has expanded the number of refugee places available for white South Africans, saying there have been "recent increases in the incitement of racially motivated violence" against them by their Black-led government and other political parties.

It's not clear what incitement Trump was referring to when his administration made the announcement Tuesday of 10,000 additional places for white South Africans in the refugee program this year to raise it to 17,500.

It's Trump's latest contention that minority white Afrikaners are being persecuted, which the South African government denies.

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