South Africa Reports

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦 The United States has sent out invitations to G20 members for the first Sherpa meeting of its presidency of the forum but left out South Africa, according to South Africa's Department of International Relations.

🇺🇸🇿🇦 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: "Refugee admissions into the country right now are essentially at 0, with the exception of Afrikaners fleeing persecution in South Africa." @SouthAfricaReports

👨‍🌾⬜️🟧 Orania's 2025 garden-to-table festival @SouthAfricaReports

👨‍🌾⬜️🟧 Orania's garden-to-table festival this weekend 🔗 Joost Strydom

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦 US President Donald Trump says the USA did not attend the G20 Summit because the South African government is killing white people and allowing their farms to be taken. South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G20 Summit hosted in Miami, Florida. South Africa will also not be receiving any more payments or subsidies. @SouthAfricaReports

🇺🇸🟧 CNN visits Orania: "No cheap labour, if we want a future we must build it ourselves" and "we need a homeland for Afrikaners." - Joost Strydom 📎 Joost Strydom

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦 US Warns South Africa Not to Issue G-20 Statement at Summit The US formally warned South Africa against pushing for a joint statement at this weekend’s Group of 20 summit in Johannesburg that the Trump administration is boycotting. In the diplomatic communication delivered on Nov. 15, the US said it would neither participate in preparatory talks before the summit, nor the gathering of world leaders this weekend. It will block any outcome framed as a consensus G-20 position because South Africa’s priorities “run counter to US policy views,” according to a copy of the document. “The US opposes issuance of any G-20 summit outcome document under the premise of a consensus G-20 position, without US agreement,” it said. “If a deliverable is issued under your presidency, it will be framed solely as a chair’s statement to accurately reflect the absence of consensus.” A White House official called out the South African government for pursuing a G20 declaration against US objections, saying it’s a longstanding tradition to issue only consensus deliverables. Despite the US opposition, South Africa is pressing ahead with efforts to obtain a joint statement at the summit that ends on Sunday. @SouthAfricaReports

🇺🇸🇿🇦 The Young Republicans of Texas on X: At our convention, we passed a resolution standing in solidarity with the Afrikaner community in South Africa. The ANC-led government of South Africa should know that the world is watching, and the Afrikaners have a friend in Texas. 🔗 YRsOfTexas

We're Gonna Win | Klysi Kluisenaar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM7abuZ6uIw

🇿🇦 Five Heads of State to Skip South Africa's G20 Summit Following US President Donald Trump's announcement that the United States will be boycotting the 2025 G20 Summit, several other countries indicated that their heads of state will not be attending the summit: 🇦🇷 Argentina's Javier Milei 🇨🇳 China's Xi Jinping 🇷🇺 Russia's Vladimir Putin 🇲🇽 Mexico's Claudia Sheinbaum The 2025 G20 Johannesburg Summit is scheduled to take place next weekend. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦🪖🇷🇺🇺🇦 17 MK Party Members Trapped in Russia-Ukraine War 17 South Africans are fighting for survival on Ukraine’s frontlines after being sent to Russia by former South African president Jacob Zuma’s MK Party, believing they were training to become bodyguards. Despite raising alarms about their treatment with MK leaders—including Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla—they got no help. They then turned to President Cyril Ramaphosa. His office last week confirmed the government had received “distress calls” from the men, who were “trapped in the war-torn Donbas" region after being "lured to join mercenary forces under the pretext of lucrative employment contracts.” Zuma sent a letter to the Russian Defence Minister Andrey Belousov pleading for them to be removed from the frontlines. @SouthAfricaReports

🇺🇸🇿🇦 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: "Afrikaners have been continuously subjected to violent racial discrimination by the South African government. I applaud POTUS's decision to not waste taxpayer dollars sending our diplomats to the G20 while this heinous violence continues." 📎 SecRubio

🇺🇸🇿🇦 President Trump says that the US will boycott the G20 summit being held in Johannesburg this year over South Africa’s anti-Afrikaner policies. 📎 EUROPA

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦 US President Donald Trump says South Africa shouldn't be in the G20 Trump: "We have a G20 meeting in South Africa. South Africa shouldn't even be in the G's anymore. What's happened there is bad. I'm not going to represent our country there. It shouldn't be there." @SouthAfricaReports

🇺🇸🇿🇦 BREAKING: Trump shrinks refugee cap from 125,000 to 7,500: most slots for Afrikaners escaping anti-Whiteness. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦 Welcome to Johannesburg. This Is What It Looks Like When a City Gives Up. JOHANNESBURG—What does it look like when a city stops trying? Visit Johannesburg, where instead of providing basic public services, the government just warns residents not to expect them. Signs tell you what crime you’re most likely to fall victim to at highway exits and intersections; beware “Hi-Jacking Hot Spot” or “Smash and Grab Hot Spot.” Homeless people routinely direct traffic when the stoplights don’t work. Minibus taxis that ferry workers around the city often drive on the wrong side of the road to avoid rush hour traffic. Johannesburg, South Africa’s biggest metropolis, markets itself as a “world class African city.” It’s home to some of the continent’s biggest companies and its largest stock exchange. But private firms have gradually taken over public services, from security to healthcare to mail delivery. Insurance companies fix potholes and sponsor fire brigades to reduce claims. It’s all become a bit embarrassing for the South African government, which is set to host the G20 Summit meeting of heads of state here in November. In March, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa chided Johannesburg officials for what he called “not a pleasing environment” and told them to address a slew of issues ahead of the meeting. https://archive.is/M9jQv

🇿🇦🪖 Most South Africans now support military rule For the first time in more than 25 years of surveying South Africa, the share of citizens who support military rule is higher than the share who oppose it. Almost half of respondents would approve of the army coming in to govern the country. 📎 Afrobarometer

🇿🇦✈️ South Africa Facing Air-Traffic-Controller Crisis South Africa’s shortage of air-traffic controllers is “almost compromising service delivery” by the state-owned company that manages the nation’s airspace. Air Traffic and Navigation Services “continues to struggle to fill key positions, particularly ATCs,” Chairman Zola Majavu said in its annual report for fiscal 2025. Locally trained controllers are sought after internationally, and “the outflow of experienced personnel has outpaced the capacity of our training pipeline,” he said. ATNS — which manages 6.1% of the world’s airspace — said that international providers offer remuneration and other incentives that it isn’t able to match. The firm said 86 employees left the company in the year that ended March, with 50 of these being from the air-traffic services division. The company has launched an accelerated recruitment drive for vital roles including air-traffic service personnel, flight procedure designers and engineers. @SouthAfricaReports

🇿🇦 In one of the most recent brutal farm attacks in South Africa, the attackers tortured the elderly female victim by pouring boiling water over her face. 📎 Conscious Caracal 📝 The South African government maintains that farm attacks, during which victims are often brutally tortured before being robbed, are just "ordinary crimes"

🇿🇦 Cyril Ramaphosa admits Expropriation Act is unconstitutional President Cyril Ramaphosa has admitted under oath that article 19 of the Expropriation Act is unconstitutional because it wrongly states that expropriation can take place before the landowner can challenge the matter in court. Ramaphosa has asked that the court to either change the wording of the article or declare it unconstitutional. In a responding statement to the respective court cases by coalition partner the DA, civil rights group AfriForum and the Vaderland Foundation, Ramaphosa admits that if you read article 19 of the Expropriation Act together with other articles, it creates a "circular process" that can declare these provisions "void" because they are so "vaguely" worded. @SouthAfricaReports