The purpose of this paper is to assist South Africa in identifying the policies, programmes and interventions that align with Africa’s interests to ensure that South Africa’s G20 presidency in 2025 is African-centric. The paper reviews the last six G20 presidencies (India 2023, Indonesia 2022, Italy 2021, Saudi Arabia 2020, Japan 2019 and Argentina 2018). The paper also refers to the presidencies of Germany (2017) and China (2016) in regard to their specific Africa initiatives. In reviewing the presidencies the paper explores and analyses:

• The specific projects/activities that targeted Africa;
• The themes in the G20 that will aid in transforming Africa (i.e. transformational governance); and
• Initiatives of previous presidencies that should be continued/deepened and that also connect with the priorities that the recent AU summit in Addis Ababa identified as priorities for the G20.

This analysis is intended to assist South Africa in identifying the key African initiatives and priorities it should consider for its G20 Presidency in 2025.