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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he has ordered South Africa not to be invited to the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Miami, Florida next year and has ordered a halt to financial aid to the country.
“On my instructions, South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 Summit in the great city of Miami, Florida,” Trump wrote on the Truth Social social network.
He added that the US would “immediately cease all payments and subsidies” to South Africa.
The American leader has repeatedly claimed that white citizens are being murdered in South Africa and that their farms are being randomly confiscated. The South African government has repeatedly denied these accusations throughout the year.
On Wednesday, Donald Trump also criticized South Africa for refusing to hand over the G20 presidency to a senior American diplomat at the summit's closing ceremony last weekend. South Africa had previously stated that it would be an insult to President Cyril Ramaphosa to hand over the presidency to a lower-ranking American official.
Tensions between Washington and Pretoria escalated shortly after Donald Trump returned to the presidency in late January. In February, he signed an executive order freezing American aid to South Africa, claiming that the Land Expropriation Act, recently signed by President Ramaphosa and allowing land to be seized in the public interest with compensation, "discriminates" against the country's white population.
Pretoria officials rejected the White House's accusations, noting that the aid freeze order "lacks factual accuracy and fails to acknowledge South Africa's deep and painful history of colonialism and apartheid."
In February, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on social media that he would boycott the G20 summit in Johannesburg.
In March, Washington expelled then-South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasul, further straining bilateral relations. The expulsion followed the ambassador's remarks criticizing Donald Trump.
In May, during a meeting with the South African president at the White House, D. Trump began discussing the conspiracy theory of “white genocide” in South Africa.
S. Ramaphosa, who arrived in Washington to improve trade terms and ease tensions in bilateral relations, strongly rejected D. Trump's claims that white South Africans are leaving the country because of racist policies, noting that the majority of crime victims in his country are black.
Earlier this month, D. Trump announced that no one from the American government would attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg. –0–
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