South Africa's Cyril Ramaphosa hits back after Donald Trump says US won't invite it for G20 summit

The US boycotted the G20 summit in Johannesburg over widely discredited claims of persecution of the white minority.

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In a social media post, Trump said South Africa had refused to hand over the G20 presidency to a US embassy representative at last week's summit in Johannesburg.

"Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year."

Members of the G20 – a gathering of the world's biggest economies - do not need an invite but can possibly be barred through visa restrictions.

South Africa's presidential spokesman Vincent Magwenya said they "should by now accept" at the highest level of political leadership that "there won't be a reset of the relationship" between the two countries despite the efforts they had undertaken.