The handover of the G20 presidency from South Africa (SA) to the United States (US) has taken place in Pretoria, but was shrouded in secrecy.

It took place at the offices of the Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO).

It’s not yet known who attended the handover.

DIRCO is apparently busy drafting a statement to provide more clarity.

SA made it clear on Saturday that the US could not send its embassy chargé d’affaires – a relatively low-level diplomat, to receive the presidency gavel from SA President Cyril Ramaphosa at the G20 Summit in Johannesburg.

US President Donald Trump boycotted the summit because of a widely discredited claim that white South Africans are victims of large-scale killings and land grabs.

–SABC–