Secretary Rubio,
I have read your Substack post from 3 December 2025.
From the outset, let me extend congratulations to the United States on assuming the G20 Presidency. We offer our sincere wishes for a successful term, one that we hope will serve the cause of global unity and inclusive progress.
Your words, however, compel me to speak—not merely as a representative of a government, but as a voice from a nation whose very existence is a testament to a profound truth: that the deepest divides can be bridged. Not through dictation, but through dialogue, not through power alone, but through unwavering principle, not through unilateral action but global solidarity.
https://t.co/Mp3fojB4E2
“Holocaust researcher, when you study Auschwitz & you study the SS & the German Nazis, what they did to Jewish people & you study it & then you see we have on our screens this is what they do to Palestinians to torture them...”
A senior government official in the Presidency says “The President won't handover to a Charge' d’Affaires”
It looks like the US will have to fetch the gavel at DIRCO’s headquarters perhaps 🤔
#G20SouthAfrica
Dear @CyrilRamaphosa, what an exceptional year for our 🇪🇺🇿🇦 partnership.
One that is truly delivering for both sides, and for the greater good.
Tomorrow, we host the final pledging event of our Scaling Up Renewables in Africa campaign.
With the aim to power a clean future for the continent.
Dear South Africans: Heads of State and their delegations, multinationals, global development, and multilateral agencies are used to DRAMATIC protests outside Summits. From UNGA, COP, World Bank/IMF to G7, they know that people protest with billboards, placards, blockades.
At the G8 Summit in 2005, protestors threw red paint outside George W Bush's plenary to protest US war in Iraq. A massive protest against Tony Blair took place in Edinburgh. At Climate conferences, thousands of protestors turn up, inside and outside plenaries.
At EU Summits, world leaders are lampooned right outside the venue by angry protestors. Outside the White House, a huge statue if Trump and Epstein was displayed. At Times Square, massive billboards of protest are displayed.
None of the delegates descending on Johannesburg are going to crap their pants because of billboards.
Their foreign missions have briefed them extensively about the true state of affairs in RSA. They know the good and the bad. They will go to restaurants and the Kruger Park and see that the billboards on race laws are crap.
International Businesses have operations in some of the most unstable and volatile countries. Enough energy on Afriforum and Solidarity's billboards. On second thought, they are actually flaccid. Move on, focus.
The Inequality Report Commissioned by RSA is important. It succinctly highlights the nexus of inequality and threats to democracy. It tells us that 1% of the world's wealthiest increased their wealth by 41% in 5 years; that countries experiencing inequality have a 7x chance of seeing a reversal of Democratic norms. Now, will world leaders adopt inequality as a global emergency? That's what matters here..not some orange billboards.
For the first time, Tshwane HQ is hoisted with our national flags. To us, lovers of this great nation, the Republic of South Africa 🇿🇦 ❤️ 🇿🇦
Don't drink and drive, Tshwane!