President Cyril Ramaphosa defies Trump’s unprecedented G20 boycott, hosts a historic Johannesburg summit without the US, and secures a landmark Global South declaration — exposing deep cracks in US-South Africa relations and the future of multilateralism.
South Africa’s Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola has fiercely rejected U.S. accusations of anti-white racism, declaring that Pretoria will never seek Washington’s “approval” for its post-apartheid redress policies. Days after President Trump barred South Africa from the 2026 G20 summit over ...
As Johannesburg hosts the first-ever African G20, President Trump’s boycott has sparked an “empty chair” crisis. Ramaphosa refuses to symbolically hand over the presidency to a low-level diplomat, while the White House slams claims of a U.S. rethink as “fake ...
