{"id":48646,"date":"2026-10-21T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48646"},"modified":"2026-10-21T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T11:00:10","slug":"sa-should-be-at-g20-summit-germanys-merz","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-should-be-at-g20-summit-germanys-merz\/","title":{"rendered":"SA should be at G20 summit: Germany\u2019s Merz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called on United States (US) President Donald Trump on Wednesday to invite South Africa (SA) to the upcoming summit of Group of 20 (G20) leaders in Miami.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAnyone talking about the future of the global economy must involve all major partners. Obviously, Africa belongs at the table,\u201d he told a conference in Berlin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe African Union is a member of the G20, and so is SA. That\u2019s why I urge that South Africa be represented at the G20 summit,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trump announced last year that SA would not be invited to the summit after he repeated allegations, which have been repeatedly disproved, that the host country\u2019s Black-majority government persecutes its white minority.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":35998,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-48646","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Trump announced last year that SA would not be invited to the summit after he repeated allegations.","published_date":"","news_description":"Trump announced last year that SA would not be invited to the summit after he repeated allegations.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48648,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48646\/revisions\/48648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}