South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has publicly rejected threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to exclude South Africa from the upcoming G20 summit, stressing that South Africa is a founding member and a member "in its own name and right." The confrontation follows Trump's boycott of the G20 summit in Johannesburg and his repeated "untrue statements" about an alleged "white genocide" and land confiscation from white people in the country. Ramaphosa accused the U.S. stance of being influenced by a "sustained campaign of disinformation" that undermines South Africa's national interests and relations with key partners. The escalating friction is also fuelled by other South African policies that have angered the Trump administration, including Black Economic Empowerment laws designed to redress apartheid's legacy, and South Africa's genocide case against Israel.
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