{"id":320037,"date":"2025-11-29T06:07:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320037\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T06:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T06:07:15","slug":"tensions-rise-as-trump-says-south-africa-wont-be-invited-to-2026-g20-ramaphosa-responds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/320037\/","title":{"rendered":"Tensions rise as Trump says South Africa won\u2019t Be Invited to 2026 G20; Ramaphosa responds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The United States did not attend last week\u2019s G20 summit in South Africa, the first time the global economic gathering was hosted by an African country.<\/p>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The United States did not attend last week\u2019s G20 summit in South Africa<\/a>\u2014the first time the global economic gathering was hosted by the country and by the African continent.<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump said Friday on X that the U.S. delegation skipped the summit because, in his view, \u201cthe South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Rights Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers.\u201d He added, \u201cThey are killing white people and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Those claims\u2014long disputed and not substantiated by independent data\u2014were swiftly rejected by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n

Trump further announced that when the U.S. hosts the 2026 G20 summit in Miami, South Africa \u201cwill NOT receive an invitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa\u2019s office called Trump\u2019s remarks \u201cregrettable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve heard talk of Poland being invited instead of South Africa,\u201d said Dr. Phiwokuhle Mnyandu, Assistant Director of the Center for African Studies at Howard University. \u201cIt may appear South Africa is being replaced, but several European leaders\u2014including Germany\u2019s chancellor\u2014have stated clearly that no G20 member can simply be excluded.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nA Year of Strained U.S.\u2013South Africa Relations <\/p>\n

Tensions between the two nations escalated earlier this year after President Ramaphosa signed legislation allowing for the seizure of private land without compensation under certain limited conditions. The law is intended to address deep economic inequalities rooted in apartheid, but critics\u2014including U.S. officials\u2014say it disproportionately targets White landowners.<\/p>\n

WUSA9\u2019s Larry Miller reported from Johannesburg in 2022<\/a>, where both Black and White farmers described the complex history and high-stakes future of land reform.<\/p>\n

\u201cI support land expropriation without compensation,\u201d said Phori Ntsane, a young Black farmer in Pretoria. \u201cMy worry is what we do with the land we have currently.\u201d<\/p>\n

White farmers expressed concern that uncompensated land seizures could destabilize the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve paid for my land by working very hard for it,\u201d said farmer Koos De La Rey. \u201cI didn\u2019t inherit it. I started with nothing, worked long days for many years, and paid for the land I own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outrage over alleged discrimination against White South Africans prompted the Trump administration to grant asylum to a group of applicants earlier this year. A plane carrying the refugees landed at Dulles International Airport in May.<\/p>\n

Trump also said he would halt all U.S. payments and subsidies to South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States is more important to South Africa than the country is economically,\u201d Dr. Mnyandu said.<\/p>\n

The U.S. is South Africa\u2019s second-largest trading partner, but South Africa is considered a vital strategic ally as Washington works to strengthen diplomatic, security, and economic engagement across the African continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa and the United States are indispensable to one another,\u201d Dr. Mnyandu added.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The United States did not attend last week\u2019s G20 summit in South Africa, the first time the global…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-320037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}