Some white South Africans have showed support for President Donald Trump and gathered at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria to claim they are victims of racism by their own government.

Trump and his allies have targeted South Africa, promoting the false narrative that white people are being mistreated by the nation’s post-apartheid government.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday aimed at freezing assistance to South Africa over a controversial law which allows the government to seize farmland from ethnic minorities - namely White farmers - without compensation,

U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping all aid and assistance to the country over what he called a human rights violation against a white minority group.

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa said that his country had not seized land. Ownership of land in the country has been a contentious issue for generations.

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. A new law seeks to right some of the wrongs of apartheid but has prompted claims from critics that it discriminates against White farmers.

The National Transportation Safety Board is examining "bad data" the crew of an Army Black Hawk helicopter may have relied upon prior to its deadly crash with a passenger jet outside Washington D.C. late last month, an official said.

Hundreds of white South Africans gathered at the US embassy in Pretoria on Saturday to support Donald Trump, and protest at what they claim is racism by their own government.

About a thousand people gather outside the US embassy in Pretoria to show support for President Donald Trump after he hit out at the "injust" treatment of white South Africans.