US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that no US official will attend the G20 summit in South Africa, citing “human rights violations” against white farmers.
Trump described it as a “shame” for the meeting to be held in a place where Africans are slaughtered and killed, and their lands and farms are confiscated.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote: “It is an absolute disgrace that the G20 is being held in South Africa. Afrikaners (people descended from Dutch settlers, as well as French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their lands and farms are being illegally confiscated.”
Vice President J.D. Vance was supposed to attend the meeting instead of Trump. However, an anonymous source familiar with the vice president’s plans said he would no longer travel to South Africa, The Guardian reported.
He also said he looked forward to hosting the 2026 G20 summit in Florida.
Trump added: “No US government official will attend as long as human rights violations continue. I look forward to hosting the G20 in 2026 in Miami, Florida!”
Trump’s position on Africans
Trump has long been vocal about violence against Africans in South AfricaHe accused the African government of allowing the persecution and attacks of minority white African farmers.
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He described it as “genocide”, a term not used by any major human rights body, international institution or local political party in South Africa, including those representing the white community.
Receiving refugees in the United States
The US government has put the number of refugees at 7,500, and says most of them are white South Africans who face discrimination in their homeland.
The South African government denies these allegations
The South African government has denied allegations of mistreatment, and was surprised by the accusations because whites in the country generally enjoy a much higher standard of living than black residents, more than three decades after the end of apartheid white minority rule, The Guardian reported.
Who are the Africans?
As explained by the South African History Online, a non-profit organization, Afrikaners are descended mostly from Dutch (34.8%), German (33.7%) and French (13.2%) settlers who arrived in South Africa in the mid-17th century. Over time, this group – also known as the Boers (i.e. “farmers”) – developed a unique cultural and linguistic identity rooted in the Afrikaans language, closely related to Dutch.
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