President Trump will not invite representatives from South Africa to attend next year’s G-20 summit in Miami, claiming that the country is carrying out a “genocide” of white farmers.
The announcement comes after US officials largely boycotted this year’s G-20 summit in Johannesburg, which concluded on Sunday, over the same allegations Trump leveled against the South African government on Truth Social Wednesday.
“At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony,” Trump wrote.
“Therefore, 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,” the president continued. “South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere, and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.”
Trump has accused the South African government of allowing white farmers to be murdered. REUTERS
Trump noted that the US did not attend this year’s G-20 “because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers.”
“To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them,” he added.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has vehemently denied that a genocide is taking place against white farmers.
Trump hosted Ramaphosa at the White House earlier this year and played for him a five-minute video detailing purported evidence of crimes against humanity.
South Africa hosted this year’s summit of the world’s top 20 economic powers. POOL/AFP via Getty Images
The president has offered some white minority South Africans – Afrikaners – refugee status in the US over the alleged humanitarian crisis.
Next year’s G20 summit will coincide with the nation’s 250th anniversary and will mark the first time the US has hosted the forum since 2009.
The event is slated to take place at the president’s own golf resort — Trump National Doral Miami.