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The world's biggest economy will be conspicuously absent from a meeting of the globe's 20 richest nations this weekend, as the US boycotts the G20 leader summit hosted by South Africa. Kate Bartlett reports that the Trump administration is snubbing the event over false race-based claims and what it considers the summit's DEI - diversity, equity and inclusion - agenda.
KATE BARTLETT, BYLINE: On the Johannesburg highway, workers, including Thando Ngema, are busy picking up trash.
THANDO NGEMA: We are cleaning for G20, madam, that is coming to our country.
BARTLETT: The dilapidated city is getting a last-minute makeove
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