US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said he will snub the meeting of G20 foreign ministers from the world’s biggest economies in Johannesburg this month over South Africa’s attempts to promote “equality, solidarity and sustainability”.
Rubio, the US’s highest-ranking diplomat, echoed the anger of US President Donald Trump and his South African-born adviser Elon Musk over land ownership laws that replace those dating from the apartheid era.
“I will NOT attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg,” Rubio said on X: “South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change.