{"id":125435,"date":"2025-11-27T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-says-south-africa-will-not-be-invited-to-2026-g20-in-miami\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:05:54","slug":"trump-says-south-africa-will-not-be-invited-to-2026-g20-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/trump-says-south-africa-will-not-be-invited-to-2026-g20-in-miami\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says South Africa will not be invited to 2026 G20 in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 27 \u2013 President Donald Trump has announced that South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20 Summit, scheduled to take place in Miami, Florida, intensifying a diplomatic standoff that has simmered for weeks following Washington\u2019s boycott of the 2025 G20 Summit in Johannesburg.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a lengthy post on his Truth Social platform, President Trump accused the South African government of \u201chorrific Human Rights Abuses\u201d against white farmers, repeating claims that South African authorities and Afrikaner leaders have strongly rejected as unfounded.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are killing white people and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them,\u201d Trump wrote, adding that mainstream media organisations were ignoring what he called \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

He further alleged that South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a senior U.S. representative at the close of the leaders\u2019 summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

Trump also said the U.S. would halt all payments and subsidies to South Africa \u201ceffective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, the Presidency of South Africa issued a statement rejecting Trump\u2019s remarks as \u201cregrettable,\u201d \u201cmisinformed,\u201d and \u201cdemeaning.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the 2025 G20 Summit\u2014which the United States chose not to attend\u2014had been widely recognised as one of the most successful in recent years, with leaders affirming the importance of multilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n

According to Pretoria, the official instruments of G20 leadership were handed over to a U.S. Embassy representative at South Africa\u2019s Department of International Relations and Cooperation headquarters, meeting diplomatic requirements after Washington skipped the summit.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa is a member of the G20 in its own name and right,\u201d the Presidency said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa is a sovereign constitutional democratic country and does not appreciate insults from another country about its membership and worth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The statement emphasized that Trump\u2019s claims about the killing of white South Africans were \u201cmisinformation and distortions\u201d, noting that Ramaphosa\u2019s administration had made repeated efforts to restore constructive diplomatic relations with Washington.<\/p>\n

Tensions escalated earlier in November when Trump first announced that no U.S. government officials would attend the Johannesburg summit, calling it a \u201ctotal disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAfrikaners are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s government has consistently rejected these claims, pointing to national crime data that shows attacks on farmers\u2014white and Black\u2014are part of broader rural insecurity, not targeted racial persecution.<\/p>\n

Prominent Afrikaner organisations have also dismissed assertions of systematic \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

On November 23, at the conclusion of the G20 Summit in Johannesburg, President Ramaphosa formally closed the meeting by striking the traditional gavel.<\/p>\n

South Africa declined a U.S. request that he hand over the ceremonial leadership to a junior embassy representative\u2014an unusual proposal in G20 practice.<\/p>\n

The summit, hailed by participants as a major success, was overshadowed only by the absence of the United States, which had accused Pretoria of racial discrimination against white farmers, claims widely criticised as inaccurate.<\/p>\n

South Africa says it will continue to participate in G20 processes and expects the group\u2019s members to uphold the principles of multilateralism, collaboration, and equality.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa will continue to participate as a full, active and constructive member of the G20,\u201d the Presidency said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on all members to reaffirm multilateralism and consensus.\u201d<\/p>\n

For now, the rift between Washington and Pretoria appears set to deepen, with both sides signaling no intention of backing down<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov 27 \u2013 President Donald Trump has announced that South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20 Summit, scheduled to take place in Miami, Florida, intensifying a diplomatic standoff that has simmered for weeks following Washington\u2019s boycott of the 2025 G20 Summit in Johannesburg. In a lengthy post on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}