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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rachel Savage in Johannesburg

South Africa hits back at ‘punitive’ Trump move to bar it from G20 meeting in Florida

Several people walk past screen that shows Ramaphosa holding gavel in front of backdrop that reads: G20 South Africa 2025
The South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, appears on a large screen officially closing the G20 leaders' summit in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday. Photograph: Jérôme Delay/AP

Donald Trump has said that South Africa will not be invited to G20 events in the United States when it presides over the forum next year, a measure the African nation described as “punitive”.

The US president repeated widely discredited claims that South Africa is “killing white people”, extending a diplomatic row between the countries after the US boycotted the summit in Johannesburg last weekend.

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