PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa will fly out to meet US President Donald Trump next week.
His office said the much-anticipated meeting was important as relations between the two countries are strained.
Ramaphosa's working visit will be from Monday, 19 to Thursday, 22 May.
The Presidency confirmed that on Wednesday, 21 May, he will meet with President Trump at the White House in Washington DC to discuss bilateral, regional and global issues of interest.
"The President's visit to the US provides a platform to reset strategic relations between the two countries," said his spokesman, Vincent Magwenya.
The Trump administration received 49 Afrikaners from Mzansi as "refugees" in the US on Monday, 12 May.
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The group left in response to Trump's controversial and unfounded claim early this year that South Africa was "confiscating land and treating certain classes of people very badly".
The ANC said it supports Ramaphosa's upcoming meeting with Trump to engage on issues.
"As a country, we must never stop engaging in shuttle diplomacy, and government must do that work, engaging with anyone who tampers with our sovereignty or has misgivings about our country. In particular, the notion circulating in the US, that there is genocide and the killing of a particular race group in our country, is a complete distortion and must be dispelled," said ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula.
He said since Trump's inauguration, the party has received reports that the two presidents have spoken over the phone, but this will be the first time they meet in person.
Mbalula said the meeting comes amid a wave of negative and distorted developments that Mzansi people have all read about in the media.
"It is worrisome that the President of the US seems to believe those distortions."
