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State Secretary of the United States, Marco Rubio, said he would skip a group of 20 (G20) conversations in South Africa in the middle of escalating saliva between Washington and Pretrija due to the controversial Land Expropriation Act.
Rubio’s announcement on Wednesday came after the days after US President Donald Trump threatened to reduce assistance to South Africa due to the adoption of legislation, allowing the Earth’s seizure without compensation in certain circumstances.
South Africa, which holds the G20 until November 2025, should host a meeting of foreign ministers from February 20 to 21 in Johannesburg.
“South Africa does very bad things. Expressing private ownership. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, [and] sustainability. ‘In other words: dei and climate change, “Rubio said in the post on X.
“My job is to improve American national interests, not taxpayers’ money or throw anti -Americanism.”
I will not attend the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.
South Africa does very bad things. Expressing private ownership. Using the G20 to promote “solidarity, equality and sustainability.” In other words: dei and climate change.
My job is to improve American national interests, not …
– Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) 5th February 2025
Rubi’s announcement was greeted with embarrassment to the critics of Trump’s administration.
“This showing weakness harms our national security and economy, and used China,” said Andrew Bates, who was a senior deputy secretary of the White House under the management of former US President Joe Biden, in the post on X.
“If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.”
Ian Chong, an associate professor for international relations at the National University of Singapore, said Rubio’s announcement was aligned with the distrust of the Republican Party according to the multilateral international institutions in Trump’s ERA.
“The world has recently seen Trump’s administration with Paris climatic agreements, the World Health Organization and denial of financing certain organizations in the UN system,” Chong told Al Jazeera.
“Rubio did not attend the G20 in accordance with this trend. Keep in mind that during Trump’s first term, the United States kept meetings on the appeal body of the World Trade Organization. This effectively stopped the WTO complaint mechanism. “
On Monday, Trump accused the management of South African President Cyril Ramaphos of “seizing the land” and harassing “certain classes of people”, which encouraged the turnover of the transmitter.
Ramaphosa said that the law is not a “deprivation instrument”, but part of the “constitutional mandate legal procedure” that will provide public access to the land in a “fair and fair way”.
According to the Law last month signed by Ramaphos, the government can take away the land without compensation where it is “righteous and righteous and in public interest”, as is the case where the property is not used.
Ramaphos and his African National Congress defended legislation as needed to mitigate huge inequality owned by land arising from legacy Rasist Apartheid system.
The Democratic Federation (Da), the main opposition party of South Africa and a member of the Government of the National Unity led by Anc, opposed the law, warning that undermine assets and could scare foreign investment.
However, that most of his support distracts the white, Indian and colored (multidate) South Africans, he expressed “deep concern” because of Trump’s threat to reduce help and said it was a misconception that the earth could be seized “arbitrarily”.
The ownership of the land is a sensitive and polarization question in South Africa because of the history of blacks who forced their countries and denied access to property.
While Black South Africans make up more than 80 percent of the population, they have only 4 percent of privately owned agricultural land, according to the Government’s audit implemented in 2017.
White South Africans, mostly originally from British and Dutch immigrants, hold about three -quarters of the country, despite making just over 7 percent of the population
Trump’s threat to reduce the funding of the African country comes because its administration has frozen almost all the side of help and most of the U.S. International Development Agency (USAID) staff on administrative leave.
Washington awarded about $ 440 million in South Africa in South Africa in 2023, according to the latest Government data.
