{"id":89351,"date":"2025-09-07T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/trump-snubs-south-africa"},"modified":"2025-09-07T18:40:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T18:40:33","slug":"trump-snubs-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/trump-snubs-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Trump snubs South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Donald Trump said he would not attend this year\u2019s Group of 20 leaders\u2019 summit in Johannesburg in November, after months of attacks on South Africa\u2019s government over unfounded claims it\u2019s carrying out a genocide on White Afrikaners.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that Vice President JD Vance would represent the US instead. \u201cHe looks forward to it, but no, I won\u2019t be going,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Doubts had persisted about whether Trump would participate in the summit. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested in May that Trump would not join the meeting, accusing South Africa of being \u201cconsistently unaligned\u201d with US policy.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s fight with South Africa reached a boiling point in May when he ambushed President Cyril Ramaphosa with a video purporting to back up his claims that White farmers are being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>The incident derailed Ramaphosa\u2019s visit to Washington, which was intended to mend ties with the US and persuade Trump to stop floating the conspiracy theory about a campaign against White South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa, after the meeting, sought to put a positive spin on the ordeal, expressing confidence that he would see the US president at the gathering of leaders representing the world\u2019s largest economies. T<\/p>\n<p>Rump on Friday announced his plans to hold next year\u2019s G-20 summit at his Doral resort in South Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The president has seldom turned down a spot on the world stage. Trump attended each of the first three G-20 summits during his first term, with the fourth being held virtually during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He has used the forums to hold talks with China\u2019s Xi Jinping and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin, as well as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attacks on South Africa date back to shortly after his second inauguration. In February, Trump signed an executive order halting assistance over what he falsely claimed were rights violations stemming from a new land-expropriation law.<\/p>\n<p>The US has given South Africa more than $8 billion in bilateral aid over the past two decades.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between Washington and Pretoria have been ongoing following South Africa\u2019s refusal to condemn Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, and for its case in the International Court of Justice alleging Israel\u2019s war in Gaza is a genocide against Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s administration has offered refugee status to White Afrikaners, a group that it claims is persecuted under Black ownership and employment-equity laws intended to address racial inequities stemming from decades of apartheid rule.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. President Donald Trump said he would not attend this year\u2019s Group of 20 leaders\u2019 summit in Johannesburg in November, after months of attacks on South Africa\u2019s government over unfounded claims it\u2019s carrying out a genocide on White Afrikaners. 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