Dangor said the US argument that if one G20 member was absent from the leaders summit, then there could be no consensus, had been voted down
Director general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said South Africa’s G20 presidency highlighted the importance of trade within WTO rules and reforming the system through local mineral beneficiation
Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya said countries understood ‘that there’s a bilateral issue between South Africa and the US, but that must not, in any shape or form, undermine or imperil the work of the G20’
President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates that all G20 members except the US had signed the declaration
In an apparent reference to US President Donald Trump’s absence, Ramaphosa warned against allowing ‘anything to diminish the value, the stature or the impact of the first African G20 presidency’
The government said it would not be handing over the G20 presidency to any junior United States official
‘There should be no bullying of one nation by another. We are all equal’ the president said after Washington warned Pretoria against pursuing a joint G20 leaders’ statement this weekend
The absence of US President Donald Trump, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin puts the spotlight squarely on President Cyril Ramaphosa and South Africa
Ramaphosa’s confirmation now places the United States back in the room for the weekend negotiations at Nasrec
The madman of the White House must be stopped in his tracks
President Cyril Ramaphosa has cast the annual forum as a test of whether multilateral cooperation still matters
Despite the positive developments, the King assured that his country remains committed to finding a solution where there are no winners or losers – a solution that preserves the dignity of all parties
He said South Africa should look for alternative markets rather than relying on America
Should the peace prize committee embrace integrity, it would have few options to either confer the 2025 award on Yemen’s Houthi or admit defeat and cancel it.
With US President Donald Trump blithely brushing aside the United Nations’ many achievements, it is worth revisiting the organization’s successes and failures over the years. While it is obvious that the world’s premier multilateral body must reform, it is equally obvious that we would all be worse off without it.
The American right-wing Christian nationalist, media personality and ally of Donald Trump’s MAGA movement was shot dead on 10 September
Democracy – government of the people, by the people, for the people – cannot prevail while wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few
The global order of years of diplomacy and peacebuilding can be flipped over by the cynical or power-hungry
Instead of replacing state capacity with grassroots action, we need to strengthen state institutions to serve the poor
Historic parallels of authoritarian states are a cautionary tale for the country known as ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’
Frustration over the gap between what citizens want and what’s being done is leading to a loss of faith in the future, in South Africa and all over the world
Donald Trump’s actions and those of his acolytes are remarkably similar to those employed by Hitler
The US president’s flipflopping does not work when it comes to dealing with any serious situation, and the Russia-Ukraine war is teaching him that lesson
Russia’s demand for Ukraine to surrender the free parts of Donbas is ‘equivalent to the US having to give up Florida’
Ndiviwe Mphothulo, a medical doctor and president of the Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, is trying to make sure the Trump administration’s funding cuts don’t collapse South Africa’s HIV programmes
Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs will be felt across Africa
Artificial intelligence will replace most jobs and create few. The future is bleak – except for the rich
The ANC secretary general said the party would not compromise on policies like black economic empowerment which have attracted the wrath of Washington
Other countries have taken the US to the World Trade Organisation, but South Africa has chosen to try to negotiate a better deal with America
The president said a support package was being finalised for firms that will be affected by the tariffs
The Israeli government, politicians and military have stated that all transfers of humanitarian aid – food, equipment, fuel, electricity and water – to Gaza must be stopped
African Development Bank warns that economic growth could drop to 0.5% next year