{"id":855060,"date":"2026-03-26T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=855060"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T06:33:30","slug":"united-states-deals-another-blow-to-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/855060\/united-states-deals-another-blow-to-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"United States deals another blow to South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/855111\/ramaphosa-makes-a-sudden-u-turn\/\">President Cyril Ramaphosa has denied being snubbed<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>France has withdrawn an invitation for South Africa to attend a summit of Group of Seven leaders in June following pressure from the US, President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaders of the world\u2019s richest nations are scheduled to meet in \u00c9vian-les-Bains, in southeastern France, from 15 to 17 June. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe invitation was withdrawn by the French government due to sustained pressure from the US,\u201d South African presidency spokesman Vincent Magwenya said by phone on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the communication we received from the French government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A spokesperson for President Emmanuel Macron\u2019s office didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US State Department also didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment sent via its website and by email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, an official in Macron\u2019s office said that South Africa wasn\u2019t invited to the G-7 because Kenya \u2014 where Macron plans to travel in April \u2014 is attending in its stead. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other invited countries include India, South Korea and Brazil, the official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya\u2019s principal secretary for foreign affairs said on 24 March that the East African nation had been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SingoeiAKorir\/status\/2036476007205446022?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asked to attend&nbsp;<\/a>the summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa\u2019s relations with the US have deteriorated sharply since Donald Trump\u2019s return to the White House last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The American president has falsely accused Pretoria of subjecting White farmers to a genocide and seizing their land, denounced its relations with Iran and Hamas, and rejected its Black economic-empowerment policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump boycotted a G-20 summit that Ramaphosa hosted in Johannesburg in November last year, and said South African officials won\u2019t be invited to attend this year\u2019s meeting in Miami.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has withdrawn an invitation for South Africa to attend a summit of Group of Seven leaders in June following pressure from the US, President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":815446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[6103,853,10022],"class_list":["post-855060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-france","tag-south-africa","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855060"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855113,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855060\/revisions\/855113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}