Sophie Smit
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G20 takes up media-related concerns
Download a PDF of this press release here. 3 October 2025 This week, the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF) and Media Monitoring Africa (MMA) handed over the Johannesburg Declaration to Solly Malatsi, South Africa’s Minister of Digital and Communication Technologies, in Cape Town. The M20 Declaration was formally handed […]
M20 Summit wraps up after the finalisation of the Johannesburg Declaration
Download a PDF of this press release here. 3 September 2025 Over fifty global organisations have committed to the inaugural M20 Summit Declaration that aims to prioritise information integrity for the public good, among the key issues covered. Delegates, who met over two days in South Africa, contributed towards key […]
M20 Johannesburg Declaration
Read the full M20 Johannesburg Declaration here. Organisations can contact the M20 Secretariat, [email protected], to add their names to the list of endorsements at the bottom of the Declaration. Media Summit urges global prioritisation of information integrity for the public good Preamble Global and local representatives of the media attending […]
Minister Solly Malatsi: Information integrity is not a local issue, it demands global cooperation.
Chair, colleagues, editors, reporters, creators and partners — thank you. In 1976, a single photograph in South Africa changed the course of history. A news image of 12-year-old Hector Pieterson, fatally wounded during the Soweto uprising, was splashed across front pages around the globe. Suddenly the world could no longer […]
B20/M20 dinner address by Dr Kirston Greenop, Head of Corporate Citizenship at Standard Bank Group
Programme Director, members of the fourth estate, honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen – as we say in South Africa, all protocol observed. As Standard Bank Group, we are delighted to be part of SANEF’s M20 Summit and my role this evening is to deliver our message of support. We thank […]
B20/M20 Dinner Address by Cas Coovadia, B20 Sherpa
Sunday 31 August 2025 Good evening, friends, colleagues and fellow changemakers. It is a privilege to stand before you tonight – not just as a representative of B20 South Africa, but as someone who has spent a lifetime in dialogue with many of you. Some of you have interviewed me, […]
The Origins of the M20
The first M20 meeting was held online on 6 September 2023 in Delhi, convened by the editor of The Wire, Siddharth Varadarajan, with the help of an organising committee which comprised eleven editors from India and a former Judge of the Indian Supreme Court. The chair of the South African National […]