by Ben Phillips | Oct 25, 2025 | G20 South Africa 2025
The Mail & Guardian will host the launch of a new report that will show how inequality gaps within and between countries impact pandemics and vulnerability to a new pandemic. The launch is coming at a time of growing concern that governance, economic and social...
by Nkateko Joseph Mabasa | Oct 10, 2025 | G20 South Africa 2025
With the African Growth and Opportunity Act (Agoa) having expired on 30 September 2025, the uncertainty over its renewal has raised pressing questions about the future of South Africa’s trade relations with the US.South Africa accounts for 54% of all exports to the US...
by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze | Sep 19, 2025 | G20 South Africa 2025
The Group of 20 (G20), established in 1999, is an intergovernmental economic forum of the world’s largest economies. The 2024-25 series of meetings is an important moment for Africa. The African Union’s presence at last year’s G20 summit represented its first...
by Christiaan van Schalkwyk | Sep 13, 2025 | G20 South Africa 2025
This year’s G20 Summit must, in the same spirit as COP17 (Durban, 2011) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Johannesburg, 2002), be used by South Africa to promote sustainable climate action, internationally and domestically. The COP17 was...
by Nkateko Joseph Mabasa | Sep 2, 2025 | G20 South Africa 2025
President Cyril Ramaphosa has launched a G20 experts’ task team to advise global leaders on the effects of extreme wealth inequality and how to address it, as part of South Africa’s push to tackle the Global South inequality crisis.Chaired by Nobel prize-winning...
by Nkateko Joseph Mabasa | Aug 28, 2025 | G20 South Africa 2025
For the first time in 14 years, the G20 youth engagement group (Y20) closed its summit last week without issuing a communiqué — the set of recommendations that usually feeds into a declaration by world leaders at their annual summit, this year being hosted in...
