Ramaphosa has repeatedly found himself in U.S. President Donald Trump’s firing line, notably over accusations, often unfounded, of violence against white minorities in South Africa.
While South Africa is not a member of the G7, its president has often been been invited to past summits, including in Canada last year.
Neither the White House nor French President Emmanuel Macron’s office immediately responded to a request for comment about the accusations.
Earlier Thursday, an adviser to Macron told reporters in a briefing that Ramaphosa and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were not extended invitations to the G7 summit.
Trump and Zelenskyy have had a notably tense relationship, highlighted by a disastrous encounter in the Oval Office in February 2025. But ties between the two appear to have improved over time, notably during a later encounter in Rome and then at a second Oval Office meeting.
The French president’s adviser denied Macron was tailoring invitations to keep Trump happy and said the invitation decisions came down to both priorities — Macron wants the G7 this year to tackle global imbalances and rising tensions between Washington and Beijing — and logistics.