By Thapelo Molefe
President Cyril Ramaphosa closed the 2025 G20 Leaders’ Summit in Johannesburg on Sunday by urging world leaders to confront global crises with renewed multilateral cooperation.
Presiding over the first G20 summit held on African soil, he said South Africa’s presidency was driven by a determination to put Africa’s development and the priorities of the Global South “at the heart of the G20’s agenda”.
He thanked G20 members and partner countries for their “steadfast support,” saying their cooperation had “reaffirmed the G20 as the premier forum for international economic cooperation”.
“This summit has taken place at a crucial moment, as calls around the world grow louder for progress on the imperatives of our time: to end poverty in all its forms, to reduce inequality within and among countries, and to take urgent action to combat climate change,” Ramaphosa said.
He said hosting the summit in Africa was significance
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