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U.S - Africa Relations

Regional security threats include Isis ‘franchises’ and an ‘emerging Mexican drug cartel issue’ emanating out of South Africa, says the US military.

Tourism

South Africa has secured the impressive title of the fourth-best country globally for travel in the 2025 Telegraph Travel Awards, standing as the highest-ranked African nation on the list.

G20

President Donald Trump said he may skip the G-20 summit in South Africa later this year, saying he’s open to sending someone else to the gathering of the leaders of the world’s biggest economies.

Foreign Policy

The Iranian regime continues to fuel conflict in the Middle East to fund its destabilizing activities. Today, the United States is taking action to stem the flow of revenue that the regime uses to support terrorism abroad, as well as to oppress its own people. The Department of State is imposing sanctions on 20 entities engaged in Iranian petroleum, petroleum products, or petrochemical trade and ...

Policy

The Department of State is imposing sanctions on 20 entities for their involvement in the trade of Iranian petroleum, petroleum products, or petrochemical products and is identifying 10 vessels as blocked property. These actions target a terminal operator, vessel management companies, and wholesale buyers that have collectively facilitated the export and purchase of millions of barrels of Iranian ...

Member Spotlight

Citibank N.A. South Africa is celebrating 30 years of partnership, and impact. From the bank’s foundation, Citi’s story in South Africa has been one of continuous growth and transformation. Citi has leveraged its local expertise and global network to serve as a trusted partner providing financial services that enable economic progress.

Policy

The 2025 and 2026 Appropriation Bill for all departments has been passed, with support from the DA, PA, IFP, ActionSA, BOSA, Rise Mzansi, among others, while the MK Party, EFF, and ATM rejected the bill.

The announcement was made during a sitting at the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Wednesday.

The sitting included the tabling of the Standing Committee on Appropriations’ report, a ...

Regulations

President Cyril Ramaphosa has noted the correspondence from President Donald Trump on the unilateral imposition of a 30% trade tariff against South Africa. The President has further noted that South Africa is one of a number of countries to have received this communication on 7 July 2025.

Call for Submission

The Sustainable Business COP30 (SB COP) is a private sector initiative led by the Brazilian National Confederation of Industry (CNI) to promote global private sector leadership in advancing the positive climate agenda. As part of this mission, they are looking for examples of private sector cases in any of the SB COP focus areas - Energy Transition, Circular Economy and Materials, Bioeconomy, Food ...

Foreign Policy

Published by Dow Jones Risk Journal, June 30, 2025 and reprinted with kind permission.

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