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Trump calls it a \u2018disgrace\u2019 that South Africa is hosting the G20, reiterates debunked claims of a \u2018genocide\u2019 against white farmers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n President Donald Trump has said no United States officials will attend this year\u2019s Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa, citing the country\u2019s treatment of white farmers.<\/p>\n Writing on his Truth Social platform on Friday, Trump said it was a \u201ctotal disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa\u201d.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cAfrikaners (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 confiscated,\u201d Trump wrote, reiterating claims that have been rejected by authorities in South Africa.<\/p>\n \u201cNo US Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue. I look forward to hosting the 2026 G20 in Miami, Florida!\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Since returning to the White House in January, Trump has repeatedly claimed that white South Africans are being persecuted in the Black-majority country, a claim rejected by South Africa\u2019s government and top Afrikaner officials.<\/p>\n Trump had already said on Wednesday that he would not attend the summit \u2013 which will see the heads of states from the world\u2019s leading and emerging economies gather in Johannesburg on November 22 and 23 \u2013 as he also called for South Africa to be thrown out of the G20.<\/p>\n US Vice President JD Vance had been expected to attend the meeting in place of the president. But a person familiar with Vance\u2019s plans told The Associated Press news agency that he will no longer travel to South Africa.<\/p>\n Tensions first arose between the US and South Africa after President Cyril Ramaphosa introduced a new law in January seeking to address land ownership disparities, which have left three-quarters of privately owned land in the hands of the white minority more than three decades after the end of apartheid.<\/p>\n The new legislation makes it easier for the state to expropriate land, which Ramaphosa insists does not amount to confiscation, but creates a framework for fair redistribution by allowing authorities to take land without compensation in exceptional circumstances, such as when a site has been abandoned.<\/p>\n Shortly after the introduction of the Expropriation Act, Trump accused South Africa of \u201cconfiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe United States won\u2019t stand for it, we will act,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n In May, Trump granted asylum to 59 white South Africans as part of a resettlement programme that Washington described as giving sanctuary after racial discrimination.<\/p>\n The same month, when Trump met with President Ramaphosa in the White House, he ambushed him with the claim that a \u201cgenocide\u201d is taking place against white Afrikaners in his country.<\/p>\n Ramaphosa denied the allegations, telling Trump \u201cif there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you, these three gentlemen would not be here\u201d, pointing to three white South African men present \u2013 professional golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and South Africa\u2019s richest man, Johann Rupert.<\/p>\n South African historian Saul Dubow, professor of Commonwealth history at the University of Cambridge, previously told Al Jazeera that there is no merit to \u201cTrump\u2019s fantasy claims of white genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n Dubow suggested that Trump may be more angry about South Africa\u2019s genocide case filed against Israel in the International Court of Justice over its war on Gaza.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, the Trump administration has maintained its claim of widespread persecution. On October 30, the White House indicated that most new refugees admitted to the US will be white South Africans, as it slashed the number of people it will admit annually to just 7,500.<\/p>\n \u201cThe admissions numbers shall primarily be allocated among Afrikaners from South Africa pursuant to Executive Order 14204 and other victims of illegal or unjust discrimination in their respective homelands,\u201d the White House said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump calls it a \u2018disgrace\u2019 that South Africa is hosting the G20, reiterates debunked claims of a \u2018genocide\u2019 against white farmers. President Donald Trump has said no United States officials will attend this year\u2019s Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa, citing the country\u2019s treatment of white farmers. 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