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FIRST ON FOX: The Trump administration on Friday intensified its dispute with South Africa , saying no U.S. government official will attend the G20 Summit in Johannesburg in protest of what it describes as state-backed discrimination against White Afrikaners.

"The lives and property of Afrikaners have been endangered by politicians who incite race-based violence against them, threaten to confiscate their farms without compensation, and prop up a corrupt race-based scoring system that discriminates against Afrikaners in employment," State Department Deputy Principal spokesperson Tommy Piggott told Fox News Digital.

"South Africa must immediately end all government-sponsored discrimination against Afrikaners and condemn t

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