Trump excludes South Africa from 2026 G - 20 Summit

● On November 26, 2025 US President Donald Trump posted that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G-20 Summit in Miami, Florida USA.

● The US assumes G20 leadership from December 1, 2025 to November 30, 2026. The US boycotted the G-20 Summit 2025 which was held in Johannesburg, South Africa.

● The reason given by Trump is that South Africa refused to give G20 presidency symbols to US Embassy official at the Johannesburg summit’s end. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called the exclusion “regrettable” and unfair saying they handed them over the symbol quietly at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation office.

● Trump accused South Africa of “horrific human rights abuses” against white Afrikaners and farmers alleging violent farm killings and forced land seizures of white farmers under the guise of land reform.

● The Trump administration views these policies as persecution of the white minority, echoing apartheid era (Apartheid was a system of institutionalized racial segregation and discrimination in South Africa that lasted from 1948 to 1994) reversal concerns amid South Africa’s efforts to address historical land inequities from colonial dispossession.

● South Africa’s land reform focuses on restitution, redistribution and tenure security under its Constitution with recent laws like the Preservation and Development of Agricultural Land Bill aiming for equitable access without broad seizures.