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(L-Top)TOPSHOT - Johan (R), embraces his wife Bianca, as with their children Zane (2nd R) and Marcus pose for a portrait while on an evening stroll in Orania, on May 29, 2024. Established in 1991 after the abolition of the racial laws, Orania is protected under South Africa's constitution, which ensures the right to self-determination.The town was developed on land acquired by a group of Afrikaner families, led by the son-in-law of Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid. It was set up to preserve the "culture" of the Afrikaners -- descendants of the Dutch and French-Huguenot Protestant settlers who came to South Africa in the 17th century. Prospective residents of Orania submit an application, get vetted and the default requirement is one has to be Afrikaner. South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) is losing ground, according to a poll released on Friday, less than a week before the tightest election since the advent of democracy in 1994. The ANC, which has been in power for all of those past three decades, is still projected to emerge from the May 29 general election as the biggest party. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images) / (L-Bottom) South African internet personality and Afrikaner commentator Willem Petzer addresses a group of white South Africans supporting US President Donald Trump and South African and US tech billionaire Elon Musk gather in front of the US Embassy in Pretoria, on February 15, 2025 during a demonstration. Trump and Pretoria are locked in a diplomatic row over a land expropriation act that Washington says will lead to the takeover of white-owned farms. Trump, whose tycoon ally Elon Musk was born in South Africa, said on February 7, 2025 the law signed in January would "enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation". It allows the government, as a matter of public interest, to decide on expropriations without compensation -- but only in exceptional circumstances. (Photo by MARCO LONGARI / AFP) (Photo by MARCO LONGARI/AFP via Getty Images) / (Background) WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt talks to reporters in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on May 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. Leavitt was asked about the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act" that passed the House of Representatives earlier in the day, moving President Donald Trump's tax cuts and spending priorities one step closer to being law. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Leavitt doubles down during briefing on Afrikaners, NBC correspondent challenges documented hatred toward country’s White farmers

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt engaged in a tense exchange with an NBC News correspondent regarding the veracity and implications of a video shown by President Donald Trump to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a Wednesday meeting in the Oval Office.

Read More Leavitt doubles down during briefing on Afrikaners, NBC correspondent challenges documented hatred toward country’s White farmers