"President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year's global meeting. Trump chose not to have an American government delegation attend last weekend's summit hosted by South Africa, saying he did so because its white Afrikaners were being violently persecuted. It is a claim that South Africa, which was mired for decades in racial apartheid, has rejected as baseless."
""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 Truth Social. "South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere," he said, "and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.""
President Donald Trump announced that South Africa will be barred from the 2026 G20 summit in Miami and ordered an immediate stop to U.S. payments and subsidies, citing the treatment of a U.S. government representative. The U.S. did not send a delegation to the recent summit, with Trump alleging violent persecution of white Afrikaners. The United States criticized South Africa for not transferring G20 hosting responsibilities to a senior U.S. Embassy representative. South African officials described the U.S. appointment as an insult and conducted the handover at the Foreign Ministry. President Cyril Ramaphosa called the measures regrettable and rejected claims about Afrikaner killings and land seizures.
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