South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has pushed back against Donald Trump’s move to bar South Africa from the 2026 G20 summit in Miami, rejecting U.S. “insults” and defending Johannesburg’s 2025 G20 as a major multilateral success. Ramaphosa’s office says G20 instruments were properly handed to a U.S. embassy official after Washington skipped the leaders’ summit by choice, and accuses Trump of imposing punitive measures on the basis of “misinformation and distortions” about alleged white genocide.
