Marco Rubio refuses to visit South Africa for G-20 summit, accuses government of 'doing very bad things'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is refusing to be the Group of 20 (G-20) acme successful Johannesburg this year, successful protestation of the South African government's controversial onshore seizure bill.

The bill, which was signed past week, permits South African authorities to expropriate onshore "for a nationalist intent oregon successful the nationalist interest," promising "just and equitable compensation" to those impacted by the bill. Although the bulk of South African citizens are Black, astir landowners are White — and this disparity has been a taxable successful South Africa for years.

The instrumentality besides allows expropriation of onshore without compensation, but lone successful circumstances wherever it is "just and equitable and successful the nationalist interest."

The G-20 acme is scheduled to footwear disconnected connected Nov. 22 — but successful a societal media station connected Wednesday, Rubio wrote definitively that helium "will NOT" beryllium there.

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Marco Rubio is refusing to spell to South Africa for G-20. (iStock / Getty)

"South Africa is doing precise atrocious things," Rubio's X station read. "Expropriating backstage property. Using G20 to beforehand 'solidarity, equality, & sustainability.'"

"In different words: DEI and clime change," the Republican added. "My occupation is to beforehand America’s nationalist interests, not discarded payer wealth oregon coddle anti-Americanism."

President Donald Trump's medication has been vocally captious of the onshore seizure bill. In a Truth Social post, Trump called the concern a "massive Human Rights VIOLATION, astatine a minimum."

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio boards a level en way to El Salvador astatine Panama Pacifico International Airport successful Panama City connected Monday. Rubio is successful Panama connected a two-day authoritative visit.  (Mark Schiefelbein/Pool AP/AFP via Getty Images)

"It is simply a atrocious concern that the Radical Left Media doesn’t privation to truthful overmuch arsenic mention," Trump wrote successful a post. "The United States won’t basal for it, we volition act. Also, I volition beryllium cutting disconnected each aboriginal backing to South Africa until a afloat probe of this concern has been completed!"

The South African authorities has coolly responded to the Trump administration's accusations, denying that immoderate unjust confiscation has occurred.

"We look guardant to engaging with the Trump medication implicit our onshore betterment argumentation and issues of bilateral interest," South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said successful a statement. "We are definite that retired of those engagements, we volition stock a amended and communal knowing implicit these matters".

In an interrogation with Fox News Digital, South African expert Frans Cronje proposed that Trump alluded to the ongoing sidesplitting of farmers successful South Africa erstwhile helium talked astir definite classes of radical being treated "very badly." The attacks person been perpetuated against some White and Black farmers.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, left, and President Donald Trump, who has criticized the country's caller onshore laws. (Evan Vucci/AP/Rajesh Jantilal/AFP via Getty Images)

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"President Trump's caller comments connected onshore seizures successful South Africa cannot beryllium divorced from his past comments connected convulsive attacks directed astatine the country's farmers," Cronje said. "Whilst these comments person often been dismissed arsenic false, the latest South African information suggests that the country's commercialized farmers are six times much apt to beryllium violently attacked successful their homes than is the lawsuit for the wide population." 

Fox News Digital's Paul Tisley contributed to this report.