Trump To Abstain from G20 South Africa Amid Tariff Turmoil

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Trump, Ramaphosa Slugfest Shadow over G20 in South Africa

By TRH News Desk

New Delhi, April 12: US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he would be skipping G20 South Africa meetings, including Leaders’ Summit in November this year. Trump offered the alibi of the alleged “land grab of the white population” for skipping G20 meeting in South Africa.

Trump’s announcement came in a post on his social media platform ‘Truth Social’. Trump’s statement came also amid South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaking strongly against unilateral imposition of tariffs by the US. Ramaphosa posted video statements to make a case for strengthening multilateralism and also the World Trade Organisation (WTO).

“How could we be expected to go to South Africa for the very important G20 Meeting when land confiscation and genocide is the primary topic of conversation,’ Trump said in a post on ‘Truth Social’.

The US President alleged that “they (the South African government) are taking the land of white farmers and then killing them and their families”.

Trump since becoming President of the US has been hitting out South Africa for ‘Expropriation Act’, which was passed by South African parliament. Trump began attacking South African government after his billionaire aide Elon Musk alleged that land of the “white population is being forcibly taken in South Africa”.

Ramaphosa in a series of statements a few months ago had explained that the law passed by parliament aimed at “equitable access of the public to land in just manner”. The South African President had also chided Trump, saying that “South Africa is a Constitutional democracy”.

Trump now is throwing the gauntlet to South Africa seemingly by derailing the G20 leadership. Since assuming charge of the US, Trump has also walked away from the Paris Accord and the World Health Organisation (WHO).

In the leadership of Ramaphosa, South Africa is emerging as an assertive global voice. Last year, South Africa dragged Israel to the International Court of Justice for “genocide” in Gaza.

While Trump seeks to derail G20 in South Africa, China has given a call to ensure that the “US doesn’t act with impunity in wielding tariff sticks and using them indiscriminately”.

Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi told the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mariono Gross that there should be a “global response to the US on tariffs”. China and South Africa are close partners within the G20.

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