Overview
- In a post on X, the president said South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20 in Miami and declared U.S. payments and subsidies to the country stopped effective immediately.
- He justified the move by alleging human rights abuses against Afrikaners, claiming whites are being killed and farms seized in South Africa.
- He also claimed the United States skipped the Johannesburg summit because South Africa refused to hand over the G20 presidency to a U.S. representative at the closing ceremony.
- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called the decision regrettable and said the presidency instruments were handed to a U.S. Embassy official at South Africa’s foreign ministry, adding his country will continue to participate as a full member.
- A Chicago Sun-Times column by Marc H. Morial criticized the boycott as an abdication of leadership and referenced a reported Oval Office episode involving fake videos shown to President Ramaphosa.