The South African government has criticised the US's decision to prioritize refugee applications from white Afrikaners, saying claims of a white genocide have been widely discredited and lack reliable evidence.
It highlighted an open letter published by prominent members of the Afrikaner community earlier this week rejecting the narrative, with some signatories calling the relocation scheme racist.
The limited number of white South African Afrikaners signing up to relocate to the US was indication that they were not being persecuted, it added.
On Thursday, the administration of US President Donald Trump announced its lowest refugee annual cap on record - to just 7,500.
The exact figures of the number of white Southerners who have been admitted through the US scheme are not available.
South Africa's latest crime statistics do not indicate that more white people have fallen victim to violent crime than other racial groups.
Most private farmland is owned by white South Africans who make up just over 7% of the population. Several months ago, South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled after accusing Trump of 'mobilising a supremacism' and trying to 'project white victimhood as a dog whistle.'
President Trump held up a photo purporting to show body bags containing the remains of white people in South Africa, but was later revealed to have come from the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of miles away. The White House did not comment on the claim that the image had been misidentified.
