By Barbra Okafor When Papaoutai came through my feed during AFCON, I stopped scrolling. The swell of voices, the Afro Soul style, and the emotion behind it felt like a real discovery. Whoever made this, I thought, is about to have a moment. Then I looked it up. The track […]
In a bid to get media freedom and media policy on the agenda of the G20 — which is being led by the United States this year — senior lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs Dr Anya Schiffrin submitted a statement for the record last week […]
Report FID – Strengthening Information Integrity on Climate Change and Environmental Issues
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]