South African President Cyril Ramaphosa dismissed on Sunday U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to exclude Pretoria from next year’s G20 summit, reaffirming South Africa’s status as a founding member of the group.<\/p>\n
Washington boycotted the Group of 20\u00a0leaders’ summit\u00a0held under South Africa’s presidency in Johannesburg on November 22-23, with Trump repeating allegations,\u00a0widely discredited, that the host country’s Black-majority government persecutes its white minority.<\/p>\n
Trump said last Wednesday that South Africa would\u00a0not be invited\u00a0to the summit to be held in Florida next year because it had refused to hand over the G20 presidency to a senior representative of its embassy who was at the closing ceremony. Pretoria says it handed over the rotating presidency to a U.S. embassy official.<\/p>\n
“South Africa is and will remain a full, active and constructive member of the G20,” Ramaphosa said in a state of the nation address on Sunday.<\/p>\n
He also described as “blatant misinformation” Trump’s repeated claims that South Africa was committing “genocide against Afrikaners” – descendants of Dutch settlers – and confiscating land from white citizens.<\/p>\n
Ramaphosa noted that despite the diplomatic rift, U.S. businesses and civil society groups engaged actively in G20-related events in Johannesburg in November.<\/p>\n
“We value those constructive ties and will continue to work within the G20 framework,” he said, signalling Pretoria’s intention to maintain dialogue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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