The Trump administration’s exclusion of South Africa from G20 meetings comes after its recent successful hosting of the bloc’s annual leaders’ summit despite Washington’s boycott

In a national address, Ramaphosa said South Africa would attend the 2026 summit in Miami despite the US president’s suggestions otherwise

South Africa’s risk is not expulsion, which the G20’s rules do not allow, but a year of disruption that could blunt the gains of its presidency

South Africa’s presidency of the bloc placed the development needs of the continent, small island states and other vulnerable regions firmly at the centre of the G20 declaration

International Relations Minister Ronald Lamola said since the US had assigned a chargé d’affaires to the handover, an equivalent level official would represent South Africa

President Cyril Ramaphosa told delegates that all G20 members except the US had signed the declaration

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

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

The need to ensure the independence of central banks was also one of the key recommendations from South Africa’s G20 finance track

The United Nations Development Programme’s Achim Steiner criticizes slow global response to Africa’s debt crisis

The unity government partner has angered the presidency by going public with proposals to Ramaphosa to rethink the agenda for South Africa’s G20 presidency

South Africa can use its G20 presidency to show how the world’s bioeconomy can be developed, from a Global South perspective