Trump says no US official will attend G20 in South Africa, cites ‘human rights abuses’

Trump says no US official will attend G20 in South Africa, cites ‘human rights abuses’


US President Donald Trump says no American official will
attend the G20 summit in South Africa later this month, citing “human rights
abuses” taking place in the former apartheid country.

 

The G20 meeting is scheduled to be held in Johannesburg from
November 22 to 23.

 

Trump had earlier said South Africa should not be in the G20
at all and hinted that he would send Vice-President JD Vance instead of
attending himself.

 

However, the US president’s latest announcement rules out
the possibility of JD Vance’s attendance.

 

 

Trump said it is “a total disgrace” that the G20 will be
held in South Africa, noting that he looks forward to hosting the next meeting
in Miami, Florida.

 

“Afrikaners (people who are descended from Dutch settlers
and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and
their land and farms are being illegally confiscated,” he said.

 

“No U.S. Government Official will attend as long as these
Human Rights abuses continue. I look forward to hosting the 2026 G20 in Miami,
Florida!”

Since returning to office in January, Trump has repeatedly
accused South Africa of discriminating against the white minority and
perpetuating a “genocide” against the Afrikaners.

 

In May, he confronted South African President Cyril
Ramaphosa in the Oval Office over the claims.

 

But the evidence Trump presented was found to be false. He
had shown a screenshot of a Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of
Congo and claimed it was proof of mass killings of white South Africans.

 

The South African government has insisted that the claim of
a white genocide is “widely discredited and unsupported by reliable evidence”.

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