US EditionTrump Wipes South Africa’s G20 Website Clean Ahead of Next Year’s US Presidency
The Trump administration excluded South Africa from the G20 summit, citing policy differences and rejecting its agenda, marking the first exclusion in the bloc’s 20-year history.
- On Monday, President Donald Trump launched the US G20 presidency by wiping the South Africa-hosted website, replacing it with a black-and-white `Miami 2026` image and showing errors for South African users.
- Last month, Trump refused all US attendance at the Johannesburg summit, denouncing the post-apartheid government's treatment of the white minority, and said South Africa will not be welcome at the Doral golf club in Florida.
- The administration rejected the South African presidency's agenda, which included a `just energy transition` and debt sustainability, while the State Department said the US will prioritise three core themes.
- This would be the first time a member has been excluded in the G20's two-decade history, affecting the bloc that represents the vast majority of the global economy.
- Political context shows Trump's climate change skepticism and fossil-fuel support clash with South Africa's government denial of systemic abuse amid far-right genocide allegations against the white Afrikaner community.
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The next G20 summit, organised by the United States, is to be held in Miami in 2026. Donald Trump has already affirmed that South Africa will not be invited
Explainer: Why Trump banned S. Africa from 2026 G20 – and the truth behind ‘white genocide
Trump has barred South Africa from the 2026 G20 summit, citing debunked “white genocide” claims, escalating tensions tied to Pretoria’s ICJ genocide case against Israel and broader diplomatic rifts.
The U.S. government launched the U.S. presidency of the G20 this afternoon, withdrawing from the block the information about South Africa, host country of this year which will not be invited to the next year's meeting. The G20 site went on to display a black and white picture of Trump, accompanied by the words “Miami 2026” and “The Best Is Yet to Come” (“The Best Still to Come”, in free translation of English).
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