South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says United States President Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the Group of 20 (G20) summit next weekend in Johannesburg is “their loss”.

The US has ratcheted up tensions with South Africa over widely rejected claims of persecution of white minority Afrikaners , which it vehemently denies, and its push for Israeli accountability over the genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

Speaking on Wednesday, Ramaphosa added: “The United States needs to think again whether boycott politics actually works because in my experience it doesn’t work.”

Trump on Friday said no US officials will attend this year’s G20 summit on November 22-23 of leaders from 19 of the world’s richest and leading developing economies, the European Union an

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