South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has told G20 foreign ministers that a commitment to multilateralism and international law is vital to solving global crises. His comments follow growing concern about the Trump's administration's "America First" policy,

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa urged the Group of 20 nations to set aside their differences and focus on tackling the world’s most pressing challenges.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s priority as Group of 20 president is overhauling the global institutions he sees as skewed in favor of the West.

South Africa is set to host Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on a state visit, President Cyril Ramaphosa confirmed on X without giving a specific date. The invite comes at the end of a week which saw Kyiv excluded from US-Russia talks on how to bring an end to the three-year war in Ukraine.

South Africa will work to “iron out wrinkles” in its relationship with the US, and the absence of Washington’s top diplomat from Group of 20 meetings in Johannesburg isn’t “a boycott,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

The unprecedented delay in the presentation of South Africa’s budget shouldn’t be seen as a crisis and wouldn’t derail the country’s 10-party ruling alliance, President Cyril Ramaphosa said.

Though the name of Donald Trump went unmentioned, everyone knew who Ramaphosa was talking about. A few days earlier, the US president had written on his Truth Social platform that South Africa was “confiscating land and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY”.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Chinese President Xi Jinping, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg on Aug.

Cyril Ramaphosa sounded the alarm about conflicts around the world at a gathering of G20 foreign ministers in Johannesburg. Among those who attended the meeting on Thursday were ministers from Russia and China.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the opening session of the G20 foreign ministers meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/)

South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa opened on Thursday a Group of 20 foreign ministers meeting with a call for "cooperation" amid geopolitical tensions and "rising intolerance".

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa described the recently adopted Expropriation Act as “not a confiscation instrument.” VOA’s Priscilla Mines explain why that is misleading.