U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to boycott the upcoming G20 Summit in South Africa unless the country addresses what he described as a “genocide” against white Afrikaners.
Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, Trump criticised South African leadership and international media for allegedly ignoring violent attacks on white farmers.
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“South African leadership is coming to see me, I understand, sometime next week, and we are supposed to have a G20 meeting there or something. I don’t know how we can go unless that situation is taken care of,” Trump said.
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His administration recently welcomed 49 Afrikaners who fled South Africa and are seeking refugee status in the U.S.
Trump Accuses Media of Ignoring White Farmer Killings
The U.S. president was particularly critical of what he perceives as a media blackout on the alleged violence.
“White farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspapers and the media and television media don’t even talk about it,” he said.
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“If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it; that would be the only story they’d talk about. And I don’t care who they are. I don’t care about their race or their colour. I don’t care about their height, their weight. I don’t care about anything. I just know that what’s happening is terrible. I have people who live in South Africa, they say it’s a terrible situation taking place.”
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The U.S. president also claimed that the U.S. has extended citizenship to some of those who escaped the violence.
Ramaphosa Pushes Back, G20 Summit Still on Track
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has dismissed Trump’s allegations. During remarks at the Africa CEO Forum, Ramaphosa said he personally told Trump in a phone call that “claims that white people are murdered in South Africa” are not true.
Despite tensions, South Africa is preparing to host the G20 Summit in November, where it will hand over the presidency of the group to the U.S.
Still, members of Trump’s former cabinet have already begun boycotting official G20-related meetings. They’ve echoed Trump’s concerns, pointing to land reform policies and reports of violence against white South Africans as reasons for their absence.
All G20 leaders, including Trump, have been formally invited to attend.
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