Cyril Ramaphosa

December 1, 2025 10:45 AM

Ramaphosa dismisses Trump’s threat to bar South Africa from 2026 G20 summit

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa dismissed on Sunday U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to exclude Pretoria from next year's G20 summit, reaffirming South Africa's status as a founding member of the group. Washington boycotted the Group of 20 leaders' summit held under South Africa's presidency in Johannesburg on November 22-23, with Trump repeating allegations, widely discredited, that the host country's Black-majority government persecutes its white minority. Trump said last Wednesd...

November 22, 2025 10:24 PM

PM Modi pushes inclusive growth at G20 Johannesburg Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated in the G20 Leaders’ Summit hosted by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in Johannesburg on Saturday, marking his 12th appearance at a G20 Summit. Addressing both sessions on the opening day, he thanked President Ramaphosa for his warm hospitality and the successful organisation of the event. Speaking at the session on “Inclusive and sustainable economic growth leaving no one behind”, he lauded the South African presidency for advancing work on...

November 16, 2025 10:13 AM

Trump snubs South Africa, boycotts G20 summit: Principled outrage or payback for feud with Ramaphosa?

In a move that's sent shockwaves through global diplomacy, U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered a full American boycott of the G-20 Summit at Johannesburg in South Africa on 22nd and 23rd November. No U.S. official will attend. Not even Vice-President J.D. Vance. President Trump offered an explanation for the boycott on his Truth Social account. In it, he accused South Africa of human rights abuses against White Afrikaners, claiming that they're being killed and slaughtered in a so-called Whi...

May 22, 2025 9:39 AM

Trump confronts South Africa’s Ramaphosa with false claims of white genocide

U.S. President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday with explosive false claims of white genocide and land seizures during a tense White House meeting that was reminiscent of his February ambush of Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy. South Africa has one of the highest murder rates in the world, but the overwhelming majority of victims are Black. Ramaphosa had hoped to use Wednesday's meeting to reset his country's relationship with the U.S., after Tru...

June 3, 2024 5:40 PM

All eyes on ANC as it discusses who to enlist to govern South Africa

South Africa was on tenterhooks on Monday for the African National Congress (ANC) to signal whom it will choose as a partner to govern the nation after it lost its majority in last week's election for the first time in 30 years of democracy. The ANC had comfortably won every previous election since the end of apartheid in 1994 but this time voters weary of joblessness, inequality and rolling power blackouts gave it just 40.2% of the vote, down from 57.5% five years ago. Its vote share was stil...

May 31, 2024 5:38 PM

What happens next in South Africa after ANC loses majority?

For the first time in South Africa's democratic era, the African National Congress (ANC) will have to seek a coalition partner to govern with after it was on course to fall well short of a majority in the national election. Here are scenarios of what could happen next in South Africa and which parties the ANC might partner with: WILL RAMAPHOSA GET OUSTED? With results in from over 60% of polling stations, the ANC had just under 42% of votes, by far its worst result since democratic elections ...