G20

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday declared global inequality as one of the most pressing threats to human progress, warning that it stunts development, wastes human potential and entrenches... 

Germany has agreed to give South Africa a new €200-million ($234-million) concessional climate loan, and the two countries will deepen cooperation in other areas like critical minerals, South... 

France withdrew an invitation for South Africa to attend a summit of Group of Seven leaders in June following pressure from the US, President Cyril Ramaphosa’s office said. Leaders of the world’s... 

With global tensions at a breaking point and contributing to higher energy prices, South Africa should focus its efforts on sustainability, as this would be a “national defence” for the country,... 

An offhand remark caught my attention in the last stages of the Brazilian presidency of COP30. Ambassador André Corrêa do Lago, the lead negotiator, acknowledged that Brazil could achieve only so... 

Washington's one-year extension of its preferential trade programme for Africa will deliver only a short-lived reprieve for the continent, analysts said, with South Africa's inclusion remaining... 

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a law extending a preferential trade programme for Africa through December 31, effective retroactively from September 30, 2025, the chief US trade... 

Dr Titus Mathe will step down as South African National Energy Development Institute (SANEDI) CEO on March 31 after being appointed as the new Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) CEO, SANEDI... 

Africa’s mineral wealth has become a focal point for the clean energy transition and advanced manufacturing and coordinated action by Africa can convert the continent’s mineral wealth into GDP... 

Mining Weekly as well several B20 and G20 visitors were this week chauffeured around Johannesburg in a platinum-catalysed hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) that journalists attending South... 

Governments and producers worldwide are reassessing waste streams as strategic assets capable of delivering meaningful metal supply with far lower environmental impact, as declining ore quality and... 

As the sun sets on 2025, South Africa’s long-awaited recovery is becoming visible like the first sliver of a waxing crescent days after a new moon. While still modest, the 0.5% GDP expansion in the... 

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on Tuesday said he is open to treating South Africa differently than other African countries if Washington extends a trade initiative with sub-Saharan Africa... 

“There's no diplomatic problem with the US, as far as I know,” Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has said during a pre-World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting breakfast, in Johannesburg, on... 

Following a combination of economic, environmental and strategic imperatives, research organisation the Sugar Milling Research Institute NPC (SMRI) has created the Sugarcane Bioeconomy Unit (SBU)... 

Eskom CEO Dan Marokane has called for South Africa’s Transmission Development Plan (TDP) to be complemented by a “regional TDP” to support the development of the grid infrastructure required to... 

The complex and multidimensional nature of life in any country means that more than one thing is invariably true at the same time. Moreover, these truths can be highly contradictory, or as Charles... 

South Africa will not bow to US pressure to change its policies on race, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola said on Thursday, after Washington confirmed that Pretoria... 

African National Congress secretary general Fikile Mbalula said the G20 Summit held in South Africa and led by President Cyril Ramaphosa was one of the “most successful”, acknowledged as such by...