Trump says US to boycott South Africa G20 summit over white ‘genocide’

Trump calls it a ‘disgrace’ that South Africa is hosting the G20, reiterates debunked claims of a ‘genocide’ against achromatic farmers.

President Donald Trump has said nary United States officials volition be this year’s Group of 20 (G20) acme successful South Africa, citing the country’s attraction of achromatic farmers.

Writing connected his Truth Social level connected Friday, Trump said it was a “total disgrace that the G20 volition beryllium held successful South Africa”.

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“Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and besides French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their onshore and farms are being illegally confiscated,” Trump wrote, reiterating claims that person been rejected by authorities successful South Africa.

“No US Government Official volition be arsenic agelong arsenic these Human Rights abuses continue. I look guardant to hosting the 2026 G20 successful Miami, Florida!” helium added.

Since returning to the White House successful January, Trump has repeatedly claimed that achromatic South Africans are being persecuted successful the Black-majority country, a assertion rejected by South Africa’s authorities and apical Afrikaner officials.

Trump had already said connected Wednesday that helium would not be the acme – which volition spot the heads of states from the world’s starring and emerging economies stitchery successful Johannesburg connected November 22 and 23 – arsenic helium besides called for South Africa to beryllium thrown retired of the G20.

US Vice President JD Vance had been expected to be the gathering successful spot of the president. But a idiosyncratic acquainted with Vance’s plans told The Associated Press quality bureau that helium volition nary longer question to South Africa.

Tensions archetypal arose betwixt the US and South Africa aft President Cyril Ramaphosa introduced a caller law successful January seeking to code onshore ownership disparities, which person near three-quarters of privately owned onshore successful the hands of the achromatic number much than 3 decades aft the extremity of apartheid.

The caller authorities makes it easier for the authorities to expropriate land, which Ramaphosa insists does not magnitude to confiscation, but creates a model for just redistribution by allowing authorities to instrumentality onshore without compensation successful exceptional circumstances, specified arsenic erstwhile a tract has been abandoned.

Shortly aft the instauration of the Expropriation Act, Trump accused South Africa of “confiscating land, and treating definite classes of radical VERY BADLY”.

“The United States won’t basal for it, we volition act,” helium said.

In May, Trump granted asylum to 59 achromatic South Africans arsenic portion of a resettlement programme that Washington described arsenic giving sanctuary aft radical discrimination.

The aforesaid month, erstwhile Trump met with President Ramaphosa successful the White House, helium ambushed him with the assertion that a “genocide” is taking spot against achromatic Afrikaners successful his country.

Ramaphosa denied the allegations, telling Trump “if determination was Afrikaner husbandman genocide, I tin stake you, these 3 gentlemen would not beryllium here”, pointing to 3 achromatic South African men contiguous – nonrecreational golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and South Africa’s richest man, Johann Rupert.

South African historiographer Saul Dubow, prof of Commonwealth past astatine the University of Cambridge, antecedently told Al Jazeera that determination is nary merit to “Trump’s phantasy claims of achromatic genocide”.

Dubow suggested that Trump whitethorn beryllium much aggravated astir South Africa’s genocide case filed against Israel successful the International Court of Justice implicit its warfare connected Gaza.

Nonetheless, the Trump medication has maintained its assertion of wide persecution. On October 30, the White House indicated that astir caller refugees admitted to the US volition beryllium achromatic South Africans, arsenic it slashed the number of radical it volition admit annually to conscionable 7,500.

“The admissions numbers shall chiefly beryllium allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa pursuant to Executive Order 14204 and different victims of amerciable oregon unjust favoritism successful their respective homelands,” the White House said.