This would be PM Narendra Modi’s fourth visit to South Africa. Since 2014, the PM has attended every G20 Summit, which India hosted in 2023.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit South Africa on November 21 to attend the G20 Summit, according to sources, which would be his fourth visit to the country.
PM Modi is likely to embark on a three-day visit to South Africa, starting from Johannesburg on November 21. The Indian Prime Minister has attended every G20 Summit since 2024.
South Africa, which assumed the year-long G20 Presidency on December 1, 2024, will host the Summit in Johannesburg from November 22 to 23, the first time the meeting of G20 leaders will be held on African soil. The US will take over the G20 Presidency from South Africa on December 1, 2025, and will chair the grouping until November 30, 2026.
India hosted the G20 Summit in 2023, which was marked by a historic diplomatic effort to achieve a consensus over the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war in the New Delhi Declaration and the inclusion of the African Union (AU) in the bloc. India handed over the G20 Presidency to Brazil on December 1, 2023.
The G20 comprises 19 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkiye, the UK, and the US as well as the European Union and the African Union.
Trump Not To Attend G20 Summit In South Africa
Reports of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to South Africa came after US President Donald Trump said no American official would attend the multilateral event, calling it a “disgrace” over “human rights abuses” against the ethnic minority group of Afrikaners in the country.
“I am not going. We have a G20 meeting in South Africa. South Africa shouldn’t even be in the Gs anymore because what’s happened there is bad. I’m not going. I told them I’m not going. I’m not going to represent our country there. It shouldn’t be there,” Trump said while addressing the America Business Forum Miami in Florida earlier this month.
The Trump administration has long accused the South African government of allowing minority white Afrikaner farmers to be persecuted and attacked. As it restricted the number of refugees admitted annually to the US to 7,500, the administration indicated that most would be white South Africans, who it claimed faced discrimination and violence at home.