By Admin 
US President Donald Trump made a big announcement on Friday (07 November) saying that no American government official will participate in the G20 summit to be held in South Africa this year. He cited the reason for this that the South African government is allegedly mistreating white farmers (Afrikaners). Trump called this move a ‘compulsion for justice’, while the South African administration termed his allegations as completely baseless and false.
Trump wrote on the social media platform Truth Social, “It is shameful that a prestigious event like the G20 is being hosted in a country that is treating its own citizens, especially white farmers, with injustice. Confiscating land and committing violence on them is a gross violation of human rights.”
Earlier it was decided that Vice President JD Vance would represent America in this summit in place of Trump, but now he too will not go. According to a senior Trump administration official, this decision has been taken after Trump’s direct approval.
US President Donald Trump posts, “It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa. 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… pic.twitter.com/oUKxCZwgNl
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) November 8, 2025
South Africa retaliated
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rejected Trump’s claims and said that this is a political propaganda, which is being spread to tarnish the image of the country. He said, “It has been three decades since apartheid ended in South Africa. Here all citizens have equal rights, and white citizens are still among the most prosperous classes of the country.”
Ramaphosa also claimed that Trump is repeatedly trying to mislead people through false figures and reports. At the same time, some African diplomats have described Trump’s statement as inciting racial politics.
Demand to remove South Africa from G20
Trump recently said in a speech in Miami that South Africa should be expelled from the G20 due to allegations of “human rights violations”. He said that until the atrocities against white farmers do not stop, America will not sit with this country on any global economic forum.
This dispute has come to the fore at a time when the G20 Summit 2025 is going to be held in Johannesburg in late November, in which the leaders of the world’s top economies are going to come together to discuss global development, climate crisis and geopolitical stability.
Understand the root of the dispute
The Trump administration has long accused the South African government of ignoring land grabs and violent attacks against white farmers. In the same year, the US government announced changes to its refugee program to give priority to white South Africans.
On the other hand, South Africa says that these attacks are not ethnic but criminal incidents which are being presented as an issue of apartheid. After this dispute, there is a possibility of further bitterness in the relations between the two countries before the G20 summit.
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