Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Botes Address at the G20–Africa High-Level Dialogue on Debt Sustainability, Cost of Capital, and Financing Reforms, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 10 November 2025

Programme Facilitator, HE Mrs Francisca Tatchouop Belobe, Commissioner for the Economic Development, Trade, Tourism, Industry and Minerals Department of the African Union Commission, HE Ambassador Claver Gatete, Executive Secretary, United Nations Econo ...

Keynote Address by Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Alvin Botes (MP), during the Second Mapungubwe Dialogues / First Edition of Diaspora Week Theme: “Promoting Socio-Economic and Cultural Rights as Forms of Reparatory Justice”, OR Tambo Building, Pretoria, 8 October 2025

It gives me great pleasure and privilege to welcome you all to this, the Second Mapungubwe Dialogues, held appropriately to coincide with the First Edition of the Diaspora Week. We gather today not merely as heirs to a sacred struggle and trustees of a ...

Keynote Address by Deputy Minister A Botes of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, during the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) Public Dialogue, “Will South Africa’s G20 be a G20 on the African continent or an African G20?”, on 7 October 2025

It is an honour to address you today, and I extend my sincere appreciation to the Southern African Liaison Office (SALO) for inviting me to speak on the pivotal question of whether South Africa’s G20 will be a G20 on the African continent or an African G2 ...

Keynote Address by Deputy Minister Alvin Botes, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, at the G20 DIRCO-Sanlam Africa Outreach Programme, “Africa in Global Economic Governance: South Africa’s G20 Presidency and the Measurable Outcomes”, 6 October 2025

SPEAKER’S NOTES ON SOUTH AFRICA’S G20 PRESIDENCY When South Africa took over the Presidency of the G20 in December last year, we announced the Theme of our G20 Presidency, namely Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability, as a response to the global unce ...

Statement by Minister R O Lamola at the Second G20 Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, “The United Nations at 80: reaffirming peace as a path to sustainable development”, New York, USA, 25 September 2025

Honourable Ministers of Foreign Affairs of G20 Members, Honourable Ministers of Foreign Affairs of invited Guest Countries, Honourable Fellow Foreign Ministers of UN Members and permanent observers, G20 Sherpas and Sous-Sherpas, Heads of Invited Inter ...

Speech delivered by Minister Ronald Lamola at the International Peace Institute’s (IPI) Annual Event on Africa and the Global Order Reform of the Global Financial Architecture: G20 Imperatives for Sustainable Debt and Inclusive Growth, New York, USA, on 24 September 2025

Your Excellencies, Ministers of Foreign Affairs, My co-host, Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is an honour and privilege to welcome you all here this evening. South Africa’s Leadership at the G20 South Af ...

Opening and Welcome Remarks by South Africa’s G20 Sherpa, the Director-General of the Department on International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Zane Dangor, at the Third Meeting of the G20 Sherpas, at the Sun City Resort, in the North West Province, South Africa, 25 June 2025

G20 Sherpas and Sous-Sherpas, Sherpas and Sous-Sherpas of Invited Guest Countries, Sherpas and Representatives of International Organisations, Directors-General, Deputy Directors-General and Senior Officials from South Africa, Ambassadors and Excellen ...

Remarks by the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Alvin Botes (MP), on the occasion of the G20 Symposium under the theme: “Advancing Youth Inclusion in the G20 Presidency Agenda”, Stable Theatre, eThekwini, 9 June 2025

We meet on the 9th of June, a month that anchors us in three powerful moments of South African history. Firstly, on this day, 09 June 2002, our country lost Peter Mokaba at the young age of 43. He was our fiery first president of the South African Yout ...

Keynote Address by Deputy President Shipokosa Paulus Mashatile on the occasion of the T20 Africa High-Level Dialogue, at CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria, 29 April 2025

Programme Directors, Mr. Mohamed El Karaksy and Ms. Pamla Gopaul, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, Honourable Alvin Botes, Chief Executive of the South African Institute for International Affair ...