Blitz Bureau
NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump said on November 26 that he will not invite South Africa to attend next year’s G20 Summit in Miami, Florida, and will halt all US aid to the country.
“At my direction, South Africa will not be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth Social. He added that the United States would “stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.”
Trump has repeatedly claimed that white people in South Africa are being killed and their farms are being seized at random — allegations the South African government has repeatedly rejected. Trump also criticised South Africa for refusing to hand over the G20 presidency to a senior US diplomat at the summit’s closing ceremony over the weekend.
South Africa termed US President Donald Trump’s statement of not inviting the African nation to attend the next year’s Group of 20 (G20) Summit in Miami as “regrettable”.
Ramaphosa said that South Africa is a member of the G20 “in its own name and right” and its G20 membership is at the behest of all other members. The South African President made it clear that the country will continue to participate as a full, active and constructive member of the G20 and called on members of the G20 to reaffirm its continued operation in the spirit of multilateralism, based on consensus, with all members participating on an equal footing in all of its structures.
As for the charge about not handling over the G20 presidency to a senior US diplomat at the summit’s closing ceremony, South Africa said, “As the United States was not present at the summit, instruments of the G20 Presidency were duly handover to a US Embassy official at the Headquarters of South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation.”
