Johannesburg - U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa's leaders at the White House on Wednesday, which may be nervous amid Trump accusing the administration of allowing a "genocide" of a small number of white farmers.

South Africa strongly rejected the allegation, with Cyril Ramaphosa working to meet with Trump to save his country's relations with the United States, the lowest point since the end of apartheid in 1994.

Trump has filed a series of allegations in a black-led administration in South Africa, including that it is taking land from white farmers, enforcing anti-white policies and adopting anti-U.S. foreign policy.

Ramaphosa said he hopes to correct what he calls a destructive mistake during the meeting, the first African leader in Trump’s return to office with the White House.

Some in South Africa are concerned that their leaders may get "Zelenskyy'd", a public slammed Trump and Vice President JD Vance distributed to the Ukrainian president in February at the infamous Oval Office meeting.

The meeting follows a White House official saying Trump’s discussion with Ramaphosa could include condemning politicians who “promote genocide rhetoric” and classifying farm attacks as a priority crime. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Trump could also raise trade barriers based on South African race and needed to "stop intimidating investors."

Here's what to know before the Trump-Ramaposa meeting.

Trump’s criticism of South Africa began in early February when he accused the South African government of seizing land from white Africa Dutch farmers and seizing “grave human rights violations” against white minority members.

Trump’s allegations of abuse against Afrikaans were at the center of an executive order he issued a few days later, which cuts all our aid to South Africa.

He went further this month, claiming a "genocide" against white farmers, and the Trump administration brought a small group of white South Africans to the United States as refugees, the beginning of a larger relocation program.

Ask if the United States will be charged with genocide. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with CBS that the government believes there is evidence that white farmers were murdered and claims that some were “forcedly deleted” their property.

Some white farmers were killed during violent family invasions. But the South African government says the Trump administration misunderstood the causes of relatively small numbers of homicides. They are part of the country’s serious crime problems, not racial motivation, it said. Black farmers were also killed.

The South African government said the allegations against it were false information.

South African Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen, a white man and a member of another party in Ramaphosa, said in an interview with the Associated Press that the claim for genocide is false.

“When you misunderstand something like this and this misinformation goes away, it does have realistic consequences,” said Steenhuisen, a part of Washington’s South Africa delegation.

The White House official said Trump could also impress Ramaphosa that the South African government needs to publicly condemn the hymns of repeated apartheid era, which contain lyrics “kill farmers” and “shoot farmers.” Ethnic minority opposition parties sometimes use singing at political rallies.

South African critics (including South African-born Trump ally Ally Elon Musk) often cite it as evidence of persecution of white farmers because it uses the term Boole, referring specifically to the Dutch.

Although Ramaphosa's party does not use chanting, the government has not condemned it. A South African Dutch group said it should be marked as hate speech.

Musk has been at the forefront of criticism of his homeland, using it as an affirmative action commercial law for racists. Musk said on social media that his Starlink Satellite Internet service cannot be licensed to operate in South Africa because he is white.

South African authorities say Starlink has not been officially used yet. If so, it will be subject to the law that requires foreign companies to allow 30% of their South African subsidiaries, owned by shareholders of black or other racial groups.

According to White House officials, the Trump administration believes trade barriers and U.S. companies should be exempt from racial demands.

Bloomberg reported on Tuesday that sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said South Africa was willing to negotiate Musk's star-striped link law to avoid resistant relocation with U.S. Ramaphosa, and did not comment on any possible discussions with Musk or his representatives when asked by South African journalists in Washington, D.C.

Ramaphosa was also asked if he was worried that he might "humiliate" in Trump's public appearance. Some parts of South African media have questioned whether Ramaphosa may get "Zelenskyy'd" at the White House, referring to Trump's condemnation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of world media.

Trump has made many criticisms of Ramaphosa and senior administration officials, accusing them of doing something horrible.

Ramaphosa said the meeting will focus on trade and normal relations and he is not worried that it will become confrontational or that he will be humiliated.

"South Africa has never been humiliated, is it? South Africans are always stuck in everything with their heads high," he said.

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AP White House correspondent Zeke Miller contributed to the report.

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