WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump stated Wednesday that he’s barring South Africa from collaborating within the Group of 20 summit subsequent yr at his Miami-area membership and can cease all funds and subsidies to the nation over its therapy of a U.S. authorities consultant at this yr’s world assembly.
Trump selected to not have an American authorities delegation attend final weekend’s summit hosted by South Africa, saying he did so as a result of its white Afrikaners had been being violently persecuted. It’s a declare that South Africa, which was mired for many years in racial apartheid, has rejected as baseless.
The Republican president, in a social media put up, stated South Africa had refused at hand over its G20 internet hosting tasks to a senior consultant of the U.S. Embassy when the summit ended.
“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,” Trump posted on Reality Social.
“South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere,” he stated, “and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.”
South Africa stated it thought of the U.S. resolution to nominate a neighborhood embassy official for the G20 handover an insult. The ceremony as a substitute occurred at its Overseas Ministry constructing after the summit “as the United States was not present at the summit,” a press release from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s workplace stated.
The assertion stated Ramaphosa “noted the regrettable statement by President Donald Trump on South Africa’s participation in the 2026 G20 meetings.”
It additionally pushed again in opposition to Trump’s extensively rejected claims that Afrikaner farmers are being killed and having their land taken away, saying that Trump “continues to apply punitive measures against South Africa based on misinformation and distortions about our country.”
In some methods, Trump views subsequent yr’s G20 summit as private, on condition that he introduced it will likely be at his golf membership in Doral, Florida.
This yr’s summit in Johannesburg, the primary held in Africa, was boycotted by america, a G20 founding member and the world’s largest economic system. The assembly’s declaration, giving extra consideration to points that have an effect on creating nations, went unsigned by Washington, and the Trump administration expressed its opposition to South Africa’s agenda, particularly the components that target local weather change.
The U.S. has now taken over the rotating presidency of the G20, leaving the long-term impression of the South African declaration unclear.
Trump has claimed that white Afrikaner farmers in South Africa are being killed and that their land is being seized. The South African authorities and others, together with some Afrikaners themselves, say Trump’s claims are the results of misinformation.
South Africa has been a goal for Trump since he returned to workplace at the beginning of the yr, along with his administration casting the nation as anti-American due to its diplomatic ties with China, Russia and Iran.
Final month, the Trump administration introduced it will limit the variety of refugees admitted yearly to the U.S. to 7,500, with a lot of the spots reserved for white South Africans. Trump had suspended the refugee program on his first day in workplace in January. Since then solely a trickle have entered the nation, largely white South Africans. In Might, the administration welcomed a group of 59 white South Africans as refugees.
Afrikaners are South Africans who’re descended primarily from Dutch but additionally French and German colonial settlers who first got here to the nation within the seventeenth century.
Afrikaners had been on the coronary heart of the apartheid system of white minority rule from 1948-1994, resulting in many years of hostility between them and South Africa’s Black majority. However Afrikaners will not be a homogenous group, and a few fought in opposition to apartheid.
There are an estimated 2.7 million Afrikaners in South Africa’s inhabitants of 62 million.
AP author Gerald Imray in Johannesburg contributed to this report.
