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South Africa will symbolically hand over the G20 presidency to an “empty chair" next week, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday, after the United States confirmed it would not send any officials to the summit in Johannesburg.

Ramaphosa, speaking during a clean-up drive in Soweto ahead of the meeting, said the gesture reflected Washington’s absence but emphasised that Pretoria still sought to stabilise relations with one of its most important trading partners.

The United States pulled out of the November 22–23 summit after President Donald Trump accused South Africa of “human rights abuses," repeating widely debunked claims that white South Africans are being “slaughtered" or forcibly removed from their land.

Trump has also said that US refugee policy this ye

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