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The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he will exceed a group of 20 (Group of Twenty) in South Africa, amid an increasingly dispute between Washington and Bretoria due to the controversial land confiscation law.
Rubio’s announcement on Wednesday came days after US President Donald Trump threatened to reduce aid to South Africa because of its approval of its legislation, allowing the seizure of the ground without compensation in certain circumstances.
South Africa, which bears the presidency of the Group of Twenty until November 2025, is scheduled to host a meeting of foreign ministers from February 20 to 21 in Johannesburg.
“South Africa does very bad things. Parking private ownership. Using G20 to enhance“ solidarity, equality, (and) sustainability. In other words: Dei and climate change, Rubio said in a post on X.
“My mission is to enhance the national interests of America, not wasting taxpayers’ money or anti -America.”
I will not attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg.
South Africa does very bad things. Private ownership confiscation. Using G20 to enhance “solidarity, equality and sustainability”. In other words: Dei and climate change.
My mission is to enhance the national interests of America, not …
Secretary of Marco Rubio (Secrubio) February 5, 2025
Rubio’s announcement was received by the Trump administration’s critics.
Andrew Bates, who served as the first deputy press secretary at the White House under the management of former US President Joe Biden, said in a post at X.
“If you are not on the table, you are on the list.”
Ian Chung, associate professor of international relations at the National University of Singapore, said that the declaration of Rubio is in line with the lack of confidence in the Republican Party of multilateral international institutions in the Trump era.
“The world has recently witnessed that the Trump administration withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreements, the World Health Organization, and to withhold funding for some organizations in the United Nations system,” Chung told Al Jazerara:
“Rubio does not attend the Group of Twenty in line with this trend. He noticed that during the first period of Trump, the United States has blocked the appointments of the World Trade Appeals Authority. This effectively stopped for the World Trade Organization call mechanism.”
On Monday, Trump accused the administration of South African President Cyril Ramavusa of “land confiscation” and ill -treatment of “certain groups of people”, which led to Disbruice from Pretoria.
Ramavusa said that the law was not a “confiscation tool”, but it is part of a “constitutionally designated legal process” that would guarantee the public’s arrival in the lands “in a fair and fair manner.”
Under the law signed by Ramavusa last month, the government may seize the land without compensation where “fair and fair and in the public interest”, as is the case in cases where it is a property, and where it was unable to reach an agreement with the owner.
Ramavusa and the African National Conference defended the legislation as necessary to alleviate the huge differences in the ownership of the lands caused by the legacy of the racist system in the apartheid.
The government has not yet raised any land under the law.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), the main opposition Party in South Africa and a member of the National Unity Government led by the African National Congress Party, opposed the law, and warned that it undermines property rights and could scare foreign investment.
However, DA, which attracts most of its support from South Africa whites, Indians and color (multi -ethnic), expressed “deep concern” about Trump’s threat to reduce aid and said it is a misconception that the Earth can be seized “arbitrary”.
Land ownership is a sensitive and attracted issue in South Africa because of the history of blacks who are forced on their lands and are deprived of access to property.
While South Africa makes more than 80 percent of the population, only 4 percent of agricultural lands owned are private, according to a government review conducted in 2017.
South Africa, whites, who often descended from British and Dutch settlers, possesses about three quarters of the Earth despite the formation of more than 7 percent of the population a little.
Trump’s threat to cut financing to the African country comes, where his administration has placed a freezing on almost all foreign assistance and put most of the United States Agency for International Development (the United States Agency for International Development) on an administrative vacation.
Washington allocated about 440 million dollars to help in South Africa in 2023, according to the latest government data.
