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2025 G20 Johannesburg summit
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The G20 Johannesburg Summit will be the twentieth meeting of the Group of Twenty (G20), a meeting of heads of state and government held from 22 to 23 November 2025.[1] It will be the first G20 summit held in Johannesburg, South Africa and on the African continent.[2][3]

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Presidency

South Africa assumed the G20 presidency from 1 December 2024 to November 2025, approximately five years ahead of the United Nations (UN) Agenda 2030 deadline.

There are high expectations that South Africa will lead a progressive, people-centred, 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.[4]

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).[4]

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Summit topic

For the G20 to make a meaningful contribution in addressing the polycrisis confronting the world, South Africa has adopted the theme “Solidarity, Equality, Sustainability”.[5]

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This theme reflects South Africa’s intention to build on the efforts and successes of the last three G20 Presidencies of the Global South and to advance the development agenda.

Through solidarity, South Africa seeks to achieve a people-centred, development-oriented and inclusive future. In an interconnected world, the challenges facing one nation affect all nations. By promoting equality, the country seeks to ensure fair treatment, opportunities and progress for all people and nations, regardless of their economic status, gender, race, geographic location or other characteristics. Sustainability is about meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own.[4]

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Agenda priorities

South Africa will continue to use the G20 as a premier forum for economic and financial cooperation, bringing together developed and developing countries, and emerging markets to find solutions to global challenges. During the 2024 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “we will put Africa’s development at the top of the agenda when we host the G20 in 2025.”[4][6]

South Africa will use its G20 Presidency to advocate and mobilise support for developing economies in Africa and the Global South, building on the efforts and successes of the Indonesian, Indian and Brazilian Presidencies to champion the development agenda.[7] South Africa will also be using its presidency to promote global debt reform.[8]

The South African G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level outcomes and priorities, which will be expressed in the work of two "tracks", the Sherpa and Finance tracks:[4][a]

High-level priorities

  • Priority 1 – Inclusive economic growth, industrialisation, employment and reducing inequality[11]
  • Priority 2 – Food security[12]
  • Priority 3 – Artificial intelligence and innovation for sustainable development

Preparations

The South African government has budgeted R691 million (38.7 million USD) in preparation for the G20 events.[13]

Participating leaders

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Invited guests

The following country leaders have been invited to the summit:[16]

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Participating international organization guests

The following organization leaders have been invited to the summit:[16]

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See also

Notes

  1. The personal representatives of G20 leaders undertake the work of the Sherpa track, where they oversee the negotiations and discuss the points that will form the summit's agenda.[9] The Finance track is concerned with strategic macroeconomic issues. G20 member states' finance ministers and central bank heads deal with this track.[10]
  2. The president of China is legally a ceremonial office, but the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (de facto leader in a one-party communist state) has always held this office since 1993 except for the months of transition, and the current general secretary is Xi Jinping, who is also the Chinese president.
  3. It is still unclear whether Putin will participate in the leaders' meeting in person. As a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, since 2022, the International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin,[14] with South Africa being a member of the court. If there is a risk of an arrest, a representative would be sent, as was done at the BRICS summit in 2023.[15]

References

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