section_path: Agenda priorities
section_name: Agenda priorities
paragraph_text: Agenda priorities
  
  South Africa will continue to use the G20 as a premier forum for economic and financial cooperation, bringing together developed and developing countries, and emerging markets to find solutions to global challenges. During the 2024 State of the Nation Address, President Cyril Ramaphosa stated that “we will put Africa’s development at the top of the agenda when we host the G20 in 2025.”
  
  South Africa will use its G20 Presidency to advocate and mobilise support for developing economies in Africa and the Global South, building on the efforts and successes of the Indonesian, Indian and Brazilian Presidencies to champion the development agenda.
  
  The South African G20 Presidency will drive the following high-level outcomes and priorities, which will be expressed in the work of the Sherpa and Finance Tracks