Cyril Ramaphosa: “The United States being the biggest economy in the world, needs to be there, so it is pleasing there is a change of…”

the US' "absence is their loss" and that the boycott would not prevent the meeting from going ahead

As the government, we have put in place security and other measures to deal with any attempts to destabilise our country, whether by citizens or foreign nationals.

Sacrifice has no colour and courage belongs to no single community.

Confidence in the country’s economic prospects was under severe strain. Government and business, therefore, came together around a common purpose: to address the most immediate constraints on growth and to restore confidence in South…