South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa hits again after Donald Trump says US will not invite it for G20 summit

[ad_1] South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has described as "regrettable" the announcement by US President Donald Trump that South Africa wouldn't be invited to participate in subsequent 12 months's G20 summit in Florida.

In a social media publish, Trump stated South Africa had refused at hand over the G20 presidency to a US embassy consultant eventually week's summit in Johannesburg.

"Due to this fact, at my path, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invite to the 2026 G20, which can be hosted within the Nice Metropolis of Miami, Florida subsequent 12 months."

Members of the G20 – a gathering of the world's largest economies - don't want an invitation however can probably be barred by visa restrictions.

Trump boycotted the Johannesburg summit due to a widely discredited claim that South Africa's white minority is the victim of large-scale killings and land grabs.

Ramaphosa stated in a press release that the US had been anticipated to take part within the G20 conferences, "however sadly, it elected to not attend the G20 Leaders Summit in Johannesburg out of its personal volition". He nevertheless famous that some US companies and civil society entities have been current.

He stated that for the reason that US delegation was not there, "devices of the G20 Presidency have been duly handed over to a US Embassy official on the Headquarters of South Africa's Division of Worldwide Relations and Cooperation".

The low-key handover seems to have additional angered Trump, who has been vital of the South African authorities's home and international insurance policies.

He has prior to now claimed {that a} white genocide was going down in South Africa, and on Wednesday he stated the federal government was "killing white folks and randomly permitting their farms to be taken from them".

The South African authorities has constantly rejected such claims as extensively discredited and missing dependable proof.

Ramaphosa stated it was regrettable that regardless of efforts to reset relations with the US, Trump continued "to use punitive measures towards South Africa based mostly on misinformation and distortions about our nation".

Within the Fact Social publish on Wednesday, Trump stated South Africa had "demonstrated to the world they weren't a rustic worthy of membership anyplace" and introduced a cease to "all funds and subsidies to them, efficient instantly".

South African officers have known as for solidarity and urged different G20 members to defend the integrity of the gathering and the rights of all its member states.

The G20 summit, which was for the primary time held in Africa, ended with a joint declaration committing to "multilateral co-operation" on local weather change mitigation and financial inequality.

The declaration was adopted regardless of objections from the US, which has accused South Africa of weaponising its management of the group this 12 months.