Former US President Donald Trump has announced that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 summit in Miami, escalating a diplomatic rift following tensions at this year’s Johannesburg G20 meeting. Trump also declared that all US financial support and subsidies to South Africa would be halted with immediate effect.
Trump did not attend the Johannesburg summit, stating that he refused to send a US delegation due to what he claimed was violent targeting of white Afrikaners—an allegation that South Africa has strongly rejected as baseless. According to Trump, the dispute intensified when South African officials declined to hand over the symbolic G20 host responsibilities to a senior U.S. Embassy representative after the summit concluded.
Posting on Truth Social, Trump wrote:
“South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20… South Africa has shown they are not worthy of membership anywhere, and we are stopping all payments and subsidies to them immediately.”
The 2024 G20 summit was historic as the first held on African soil. The United States refused to sign the final joint declaration, objecting particularly to climate commitments and developmental priorities emphasised by developing nations.
Despite the boycott and unsigned declaration, the US formally began its rotating G20 presidency on Monday. Traditionally, South Africa would have passed a ceremonial wooden gavel to the incoming host nation. However, South Africa declined to hand over the gavel to what it described as a “junior-level” US representative, since no high-ranking American officials were present.
Trump has previously stated that the 2026 G20 summit will be hosted at his Doral golf resort near Miami, raising questions about the diplomatic and logistical implications of barring a member nation from the forum.
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