Wef 2025: Ramaphosa Sets Out G20 Priorities In Davos Address

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called for a return to multilateralism in an address to the World Economic Forum at Davos in which he set out his priorities for the country's presidency of the G20, even as newly inaugurated US President Donald Trump sought to withdraw the US from key global agreements.

South Africa will this year begin its tenure as president of the G20 group of nations, the first African nation to assume the position after the African Union was accepted into the group as a member in 2023. Ramaphosa delivered a call for greater collaboration and collective action in the face of global challenges such as climate change, conflict and rising inequality.

This is a moment when we should harness the abundant resources we collectively possess and the remarkable technologies that human ingenuity has produced to overcome poverty, to overcome inequality, unemployment, and especially youth unemployment, and the abuse of women once and for all, he urged.

Ramaphosa announced that South Africa will focus on the themes of solidarity, inequality and sustainable development.

We will seek to get the G20 to focus more on how we can enhance solidarity through collective efforts to ensure that in the pursuit of progress in the world and progress for all: no person and no country should be left behind, he charged.