President Donald Trump said Wednesday that officials from South Africa would not be invited to next year’s summit of leading rich and developing nations in Miami, just days after this year’s meeting wrapped up with barely any U.S. presence.
“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. South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The Group of 20 consists of 19 countries, plus the European Union and the African Union. This year’s summit was held in South Africa, with no high-level U.S. officials in attendance following Trump’s baseless claims of a “white genocide” against Afrikaners, the white ethnic minority that ruled South Africa during apartheid.
The claims were boosted this year by tech mogul Elon Musk — a South African native — who spent the first few months of Trump’s second term serving as an adviser to the president and overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.
In May, Trump hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House for what devolved into a tense meeting that included Trump’s playing a video on TV screens in the Oval Office with a montage of clips that he said backed up his claims of genocide. Ramaphosa and other South Africans have vigorously denied the genocide claims.
The Trump administration welcomed white South Africans after Trump issued an executive order that said the United States would help with resettling “Afrikaner refugees escaping government-sponsored race-based discrimination, including racially discriminatory property confiscation.”
South African officials have also denied that their government was seizing land from Afrikaner farmers.
“That is not government policy,” Ramaphosa said in May.
Trump repeated his claims in Wednesday’s Truth Social post.
“The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them,” he wrote.
Next year’s G20 meeting will be held at Trump National Doral, a resort in Florida owned by Trump’s family business.
Tara Prindiville contributed.
