G-20: Accusing it of ‘abusing’ the Whites, Trump to boycott Summit in South Africa
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Accusing South Africa of ‘ill-treatment’ of White farmers, US President Donald Trump has said he will not attend the Group of 20’s annual Summit in that country, the media reported on Saturday.
President Trump said on Friday that no US government officials would attend the G-20 Summit scheduled on November 22 and 23, 2025, in Johannesburg.
In May 2025, Trump confronted the visiting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House with the purported “evidence” of the Whites’ “genocide.”
The US President had already announced he would not attend the annual summit for heads of state from the world’s 20 leading and emerging economies. Vice President J.D. Vance was scheduled to attend in Trump’s place, but he too would not travel to South Africa for the event.
“It is a total disgrace that the G-20 will be held in South Africa,” Trump said on his social media site Truth Social. He also cited “abuses” of Afrikaners, including violence, death, and confiscation of their land and farms.
The Trump administration has long accused South Africa of allowing persecution of attacks on minority White Afrikaner farmers. As it restricted the number of refugees admitted annually to the US to 7,500, the administration indicated that most would be White South Africans who, it claimed, faced discrimination and violence at home. Some reports suggested the Whites of South Africa are claiming to be discriminated against to easily emigrate to the USA.
But Pretoria expressed surprise, because White people in South Africa generally have a much higher standard of living than its Black residents, more than three decades after the 1994 end of the hated apartheid system of White minority rule.
President Ramaphosa said he’s told Trump that information about the alleged discrimination and persecution of Afrikaners is “completely false.” Nonetheless, Washington continued to criticize Pretoria.
Earlier this week, during an economic speech in Miami, Trump said South Africa should be thrown out of the G- 20.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also boycotted a G-20 meeting for Foreign Ministers because its agenda focused on diversity, inclusion and climate change efforts.
