US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not take part in an upcoming G20 meeting in South Africa, he said on Wednesday after President Donald Trump threatened to reduce funding for the African country.
South Africa organizes a meeting of the Foreign Minister of the G20 countries in Johannesburg from February 20 to 21. The country will hold the G20 presidency until November.
Trump said on Sunday, without quoting evidence that “South Africa Land confiscated” and “certain classes of people” very bad “were treated.
The billionaire Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, who is close to Trump, also accused South Africa in the past few days of “openly racist property laws”, which indicates that white ones were the victims.
President Cyril Ramaphosa defended South Africa’s land policy after Trump’s threat and said that the government had not confiscated a country and the politicians aimed to ensure that the public has just accessed the public.
Not chosen, but authorized by the US President Donald Trump to shorten state waste, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, stands in a growing resistance to his disguise of federal jobs and departments in what a democratic senator described as a “illegal power class” .
Land ownership controversial
The question of landowners in South Africa due to the inheritance of the colonial and apartheid epochs, when black people were expropriated by their countries and the property rights were refused.
White landowners still have three quarters of ownership in South Africa, with four percent black citizens. About 80 percent of the country’s population are black compared to around eight percent, which are white, according to the latest land test, from 2017.
In part to remedy this imbalance, Ramaphosa signed a law last month that enabled the state to exprude the country “in the public interest”.
“South Africa does very bad things. Designs private ownership. With G20 to promote solidarity, equality and sustainability. In other words: Dei and climate change,” said Rubio in his contribution about X, without giving details.
In response to Rubios Post, the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that “there is no arbitrary expropriation of land (or) private property. This law is similar to the significant domain laws.”
The Trump administration has tried to reduce diversity, justice and inclusion programs in the US government. Legal groups say that the programs help to treat inequalities from marginalized groups. Trump calls the anti-merit.
South Africa also requires that foreign companies offer historically disadvantaged groups 30 percent of equity if they want to operate in the country. The Starlink satellite service of Musk has so far been refused a license for the operation in South Africa during lengthy negotiations.
Democratic Senator Chris Murphy criticizes Muschus:
This is not complicated to understand.
Elon Musks Starlink was denied a license in South Africa, and so he was a revenge campaign to make her reverse her decision.
Our foreign policy is now only a billionaire business tactics. What a heartbreaking corruption. https://t.co/jzznoedu0n
Musk was shown in the USA by the Trump administration as a “special government agent”, although he was obvious in view of his status as CEO of several companies that are subject to federal regulation, including Tesla, SpaceX and X.
For example, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) examined whether Musk broke the securities laws in 2022 when he bought shares on Twitter, as well as statements that he made on social media regarding his startup startup from Hirnchip Neuralink, What some claimed were misleading.
Nevertheless, Musk and a team who works as a Department of Government Efficiency – which is not a formal federal department despite its name – have access to program information, with Musk attacking the expenditure for foreign aids from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)).
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Causes regarding public health when the financing stops
The freezers in the US expenditure on foreign help, since Trump took office on January 20, have caught charity and governments around the world.
The South African Minister of Health Aaron Motoaledi informed the parliament there on Wednesday that the officials who meet with the US embassy staff had to meet according to information after they had not warned the Trump administration. It would freeze crucial financing for the world’s largest national HIV/AIDS program. South Africa has the world’s highest number of people with HIV with around eight million people, and the United States finance around 17 percent of its program by the emergency plan for AIDS relief (Pepper) of the President, which was launched by the government of George W. Bush became.
Jean Kaseya, Head of Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on Thursday that the organization would reach Rubio to pronouncement pandemy in the Congo Reuters.
“When I got the information about the break … I was alerted,” said Kaseya. “How can we react to all current outbreaks if we have no financing?”
Rubio also said in his post that he did not want to codd “anti -Americanism” but did not explain in more detail.
The United States under Joe Biden criticized South Africa after launching a case in South Israel attacks in December 2023.
The South African government of the African National Congress Party has long compared Israel’s politics in Gaza and in the West Bank with its own history in accordance with Apartheid Regime of the Rule of the White Minority.
The origins of G20, an outgrowth of the group of seven intergovernmental forum, to which Canada belongs part of the 1999 date.
The first G20 in which State Heads took part in Washington was in 2008, weeks after the global financial crisis. Toronto was the guest city of the fourth summit in 2010.
While boycotts were threatened in the past, the lack of US participation would be a big change.
In 2022, Janet Yellen, Canada’s Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland and some others, a G20 meeting in Washington went to protest against the participation of Russia that had just started the invasion of Ukraine.
