France has buckled under US pressures, and disinvited South African president Cyril Ramaphosa from the G7 meeting.
Presidency spokesperson, Vincent Magwenya says that Pretoria has learned that the Americans had threatened to boycott the G7 if South Africa was invited. Tensions between South Africa and the United States reached an all-time high in November, after US President Donald Trump announced that South Africa would be barred from attending the next G20 summit.
His remarks followed South Africa’s refusal to symbolically pass the G20 presidency to a senior US Embassy representative at the close of last year’s summit in Johannesburg.
Pretoria has taken a principled stance on the Israeli violations in Palestine, and has focused its diplomatic and trade relations on diversification. South Africa has also spoken out against any country seeking to impose its hegemony on other nations.
