Parliament is Able to Host World Parliamentary Leaders for the eleventh P20 Summit in Cape Town

Parliament will host the eleventh G20 Parliamentary Speakers’ Summit (P20), at Arabella Hotel in Kleinmond exterior Cape Town, from 29 September to three October 2025. This gathering of Speakers and Presiding Officers from Group of Twenty (G20) member international locations, might be held below the theme: “Harnessing Parliamentary Diplomacy for the Realisation of Global Solidarity, Equality and Sustainability.”

In an official media launch asserting its readiness to host this worldwide occasion, Parliament stated the P20 Summit will function a platform to advertise shared accountability and historic accountability, whereas fostering new partnerships for Africa’s sustainable growth and racial justice.

“The P20 will play a key role in establishing and strengthening existing collaborations between South Africa and other African nations, as well as with countries worldwide, through the promotion of policy and legislative initiatives that will positively influence the global agenda,” the media assertion stated.

The summit programme might be preceded by the 2nd P20 Meeting of Women Parliamentarians and the P20 Young Parliamentarians Conference, which can happen concurrently at Arabella Hotel from 29 to 30 September 2025.

The internet hosting of the P20 summit varieties a part of South Africa’s Presidency of the G20, and has dominated parliamentary debates and public participation, by way of the sectoral parliaments this 12 months.

Among the build-up occasions to the P20 Summit was a symposium of Speakers and different leaders and representatives of nationwide parliaments from the African continent, which was held on the sidelines of the atypical session of the Pan African Parliament in July this 12 months.

In that symposium, the President of the Pan African Parliament, Chief Fortune Charumbira, known as on all of Africa to face with South Africa and make an enter into the G20 course of for the advantage of your complete continent. The House Chairperson for Committees and Oversight within the National Assembly Mr Cedric Frolick stated Africa should use the G20 alternative to form world insurance policies that influence on the African continent.

This 12 months’s Women’s Parliament was additionally organised according to the actions of internet hosting the P20 Speakers’ Summit.

South Africa took over the annual rotational presidency of the G20 from 1 December 2024 to 30 November 2025. P20 summits play a vital position in bringing a parliamentary perspective to world governance by elevating consciousness, constructing political assist for worldwide commitments and guaranteeing their efficient implementation on the nationwide degree.

The G20 was established in 1999 in response to the Asian monetary disaster and began as a gathering of finance ministers and central financial institution governors earlier than it was elevated to leaders’ degree in 2008 throughout the world monetary disaster. Its main goal is worldwide financial cooperation and monetary stability. It is comprised of 19 international locations, in addition to the European Union and African Union, with Nigeria and Ethiopia as observers.

Member international locations are: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Türkiye, the United Kingdom and the United States.