Pretoria (ANN)-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. Washington boycotted the Group of 20 leaders’ summit held under South Africa’s presidency in Johannesburg on November 22-23, with Trump repeating allegations, widely discredited, that the host country’s Black-majority government persecutes its white minority.
According to daily Maverick report say The South African government has formally asked other G20 countries to object to its exclusion from next year’s G20 at the first sherpas meeting of the US G20 on Monday, 15 December.
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) sent an official “note verbale” on Wednesday, 10 December, to the embassies and high commissions of the G20 countries, with this request.
The note said that the US government had officially informed SA on 4 December that it was “not invited to participate in any G20 events during its presidency, including meetings of the sherpas, working groups, ministers as well as the 2026 Leaders’ Summit.
“The United States of America further conveyed that it will forego the troika format during its G20 presidency.”