Donald Trump reiterated on Truth Social that the United States will continue to boycott the G20 meetings in South Africa. The summit, which brings together heads of state from countries with the world’s 20 largest economies, will be held in Johannesburg Nov. 22-23. It will be the first G20 summit ever hosted on the African continent.
The U.S. president has claimed–without providing evidence–that land expropriations and killings of white farmers are taking place in the country. “They are confiscating land and killing them and their families,” he wrote, calling the situation a “genocide.” Trump criticized the Land Redistribution Act, which aims to correct apartheid-era injustices by allowing the government to seize and redistribute land deemed unused. According to Trump, this law is resulting in the killing of white farmers, an accusation he also extended to the media, which he said was guilty of ignoring the problem.
In his post, Trump also mentioned and openly criticized Julius Malema, a radical leftist South African politician known for his controversial speeches in which he allegedly incited violence in the name of “revolution.”
Despite Trump’s accusations, facts demonstrate that since the end of apartheid in 1994, the South African government has never confiscated private land. The South African Foreign Ministry spokesman reiterated that the country’s Constitution guarantees the rights of all people, regardless of race or social status. In the same post, Trump confirmed that his administration has already frozen U.S. aid destined for South Africa and offered an expedited procedure to obtain U.S. citizenship for affected farmers.
