Windhoek, May 22- President Cyril Ramaphosa has confirmed to eNCA that the relationship between the United States and South Africa is back on track and President Trump is expected to attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg. The G20 Johannesburg Summit will be the twentieth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a meeting of heads of state and government to be held from22-23 November 2025 in Johannesburg South Africa. It will be the first G20 summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa and on the African continent. The summit will cost the South African government around R691 million as a host.
South Africa assumed the G20 presidency from 1 December 2024 to November 2025, approximately five years ahead of the UN Agenda 2030 deadline. There are high expectations that South Africa will lead a progressive, people-centered, development-oriented and solution-oriented presidency, in a fractured global geopolitical context, until it hands over the presidency to the United States on 1 December 2025.
South Africa’s participation in the G20 is guided by its four strategic foreign policy pillars (national interests, the African Agenda, South-South Cooperation and Multilateralism.
