Cyril Ramaphosa responds to Trump’s G20 summit boycott

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa criticized US President Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the upcoming G20 summit in Johannesburg, stating that “boycott politics doesn’t work.” Trump announced no US officials would attend due to unfounded claims of white persecution in South Africa, which Ramaphosa dismissed as a loss for the US. He emphasized that the summit would proceed and criticized the US for abandoning its significant global economic role. South Africa’s government has refuted claims of a “white genocide” and stated that land confiscation occurs with compensation.

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