Trump is boycotting the G20 over a dispute about Afrikaners. Who are they? : NPR

When the G20 meeting kicks off in South Africa this weekend, one member country will be conspicuously absent: the United States.

President Trump has decided that the U.S. will completely boycott the conference over what he considers the discriminatory treatment of Afrikaners by the South African government. They are the largest subset of the country's white minority, and Afrikaners ran South Africa's government for much of the 20th century and famously oversaw the racist system of apartheid until 1994.

Trump has repeated false claims that the South African government is stealing land from white farmers and that there is an ongoing "white genocide" and "extermination" of Afrikaners, even taking the unprecedented step of offering refugee status to Afrikaners who want to flee. The first 5