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 has cast the annual forum as a test of whether multilateral cooperation still matters

In his weekly newsletter, the president said the G20 must urgently address the fiscal conditions that have left low- and middle-income countries unable to build resilience or recover from shocks

President Cyril Ramaphosa said the uncertainty of the new trading regime had already harmed the country’s economy

The panel, chaired by Nobel prize-winner economist Joseph Stiglitz, will produce recommendations to help bridge the rich-poor divide

Populist parties have made considerable gains in the wake of the government’s insecurity-inducing economic policies

South Africa risks falling behind as much of the rest of the world embraces industrialisation to grow and protect economies

The American presidential hopeful’s world policies make him a bull in a china shop

This year will finally see interest rates fall. But whatever relief the Reserve Bank administers, it will have come too late for some