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US President Donald Trump said he would not invite South Africa to attend next year’s G-20 summit in Miami and planned to “stop all payments and subsidies” to the country, as relations between Washington and Pretoria continue to deteriorate.
Trump repeated claims without evidence in a social media post that South Africa is committing genocide against white Africans and expropriated land without compensation and criticized the way a recent global summit was run.
“South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,” Trump said. “South Africa has shown the world that they are not a country worthy of membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them with immediate effect.”
The US boycotted the G-20 meeting in South Africa over the weekend and sent a diplomatic note warning Pretoria against adopting the leaders’ declaration. South Africa stepped forward and ratified the document soon after the meeting began.
Trump’s feud with South Africa reached a high point in May when he attacked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House with a video supporting his claims that white farmers were being targeted.
The incident derailed Ramaphosa’s visit to Washington, which was aimed at improving relations with the US and persuading Trump to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the campaign against white South Africans.
South Africa also rejected a US request for Mark Dillard, the US charge d’affaires in South Africa, to attend the leaders’ summit and receive a formal G-20 handover, saying Ramaphosa would not attend along with a lower-level official. Instead, the transfer took place quietly between diplomats at South Africa’s Foreign Ministry in Pretoria on Tuesday.
South Africa was preparing for Trump to interrupt him at the Miami summit, and officials there are worried the US might try to isolate the country from the grouping altogether. Any change in membership will require consensus among the G-20 countries, as happened before the 2023 summit in India, when the African Union was inducted as a full member.
It is unclear what effect Trump’s threat to cut payments to South Africa will have. Trump had already suspended aid to the country in an executive order in March.
With the assistance of S’Thembile Cele.
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