G20 Summit: a platform to promote India and South Africa's global economic vision

SOUTH Africa will host the first-ever G20 Summit on the African continent in Johannesburg in November, amid unprecedented geopolitical and economic turmoil.

- FAWZIA MOODLEY

The threat by the leader of the most powerful country in the world, US President Donald Trump, to boycott the summit may be a bit of a downer, but Pretoria is determined to host a successful event and will be banking on support from India, Brazil and other BRICS countries to achieve the goals set out for this year’s summit.

Both India, which hosted the 2023 G20 Summit, and Brazil, which was the host country in 2024, not only share South Africa's economic aspirations for the developing world and the Global South, but all three countries are also bearing the brunt of some of the harshest US tariffs in the world.