Agenda

People's Summit Agenda

A deeper dive into the sessions shaping our collective fight: interactive workshops, movement dialogues, bold ideas, artivists, inspiration and practical tools for organising across borders. Find out where to go and when and come prepared to join the fight.

Morning Breakout Sessions: Day 1 (11:00 - 12h30)

11:00 - 12:30 Gen Z UpRising

Fight Inequality Alliance

Imbizo Tent 1: Old Forte

Youth will lead us to a Just New Economic World Order – 8 prominent youth activists from Kenya, Nepal, Indonesia, and the Philippines share their lived experiences in activism, create connections across struggles, and envision the direction of youth-led movements for justice/against inequality.

Living libraries where 8 activists living books of knowledge, together they form a library that speaks and through a process of listening to and believing in their experiential viewpoints discussion that foster understanding that injustices are linked, connect & recognising interconnected struggles. In this space we will build solidarity and see to a future where youth shift the paradigms of injustice.

Magamba Network (Kick Polluters Out)

Men’s Jail Atrium – Old Forte

The session invites youth participants to co-create new ideas to Kick Polluters Out of AFCON as a unified people’s action. The group will be split into two in a simulation : Total’s PR and Media team vs The People (the 99%)These ideas will then be used to create campaign content. It will also include creating placard messages and doing a photo-op at the nearest Total Energies service station.”

Interactive Popular Education

Flipcharts, markers, projector and Sound

Fight Inequality Alliance – Moshikas Diversas & Asuntos del Sur

Imbizo Tent 4 – Old Forte

Join this interactive and creative session to learn how activists across Latin America and the Caribbean adapted the “We, The 99%” call to action into a powerful regional declaration for a new, life-affirming economy. We’ll share the collaborative process behind this milestone and explore, together with comrades from across the Global South, how this model can be used as a political organizing tool beyond the Summit. The session will also open space for South-South solidarity, inviting participants to co-create ideas for similar national or regional processes—and to end by celebrating the Latin American region through banner-making and collage.

Workshop & Training – 20 Mins introductory session – 110 Mins art making for collages.

Engage South Africa

Imbizo Tent 2 – Old Forte

A collection of youth-led stories and reflections on democracy, dignity, and justice highlighting local struggles and creative solutions led by teenagers who are often excluded from formal movement spaces..

Dialogue

Engage South Africa

Imbizo Tent 2 – Old Forte

A collection of youth-led stories and reflections on democracy, dignity, and justice highlighting local struggles and creative solutions led by teenagers who are often excluded from formal movement spaces..

Dialogue

Johannesburg Centre for Social Change

Imbizo tent 4: Old Forte Courtyard

We are creating collective strategies rooted in a sobering reality check of the world capitalist system to reclaim people’s power, build solidarity, and advance a just global economy that serves the 99% – the direct opposite of imperialist and sub-imperialist fusion being generated within the G20 in 2025 and certainly when it is hosted by the U.S. in 2026.

Dialogue

Union Against Hunger

Imbizo Tent 7 – Secure us Against Hunger (Old Forte)

The workshop will be to introduce the Union Against Hunger to the delegates for them to understand our mision and vision plus the 10 demands we have end hunger in South Africa.

Popular education workshop

Chairs for 30 – 50 delegates and 2 tables

The Campaign on Digital Ethics (CODE)

Constitution Boardroom – Old Forte

This workshop will unpack the growing threats of online disinformation and AI manipulation—and how they harm our democracy. Participants will gain practical advocacy strategies to identify, challenge, and counter disinformation in real time, using examples relevant to the South African context. The session will also build your digital literacy skills, equipping activists and civil society organisations with the tools needed to stay secure, informed, and effective in the digital age.This workshop will unpack the growing threats of online disinformation and AI manipulation—and how they harm our democracy. Participants will gain practical advocacy strategies to identify, challenge, and counter disinformation in real time, using examples relevant to the South African context. The session will also build your digital literacy skills, equipping activists and civil society organisations with the tools needed to stay secure, informed, and effective in the digital age

FILM SCREENINGS - DAY 1

Burning Rebellion

Constitution Square

– A short film aimed at building Climate Justice awareness –

00h15m short-film – 00h20m facilitated discussion

YouthCapital

Constitution Square

– A short film highlighting youth unemployment crisis in south africa, Youth from Khayelitsha Western Cape share their struggles with finding employment.

00h15m short-film – 00h20m facilitated discussion

OXFAM

Education Room – Number 4

The Rose of Marapong & The Cost of Medupi, produced by PassionSeed Communications (2023). The film highlights the lived experiences of mining-affected communities, the gendered impacts of extractives, and the urgency of a Just Energy Transition (JET) grounded in feminist

DAY 1 Exhibitions (13:00 - 13:45)

Community Art Mobilisation Project (CAMP)

Women’s Jail – East Wing

The enCAMPment is a cultural workers’ laboratory where all are invited to join in designing and producing cultural materials (posters, banners, pamphlets, stickers etc.) that support direct action and street-side visual communications to make our revolution irresistable.

Bring your ideas, your playfulness, some whimsy and a message you want to make. No formal artistic training is required.

Fight Inequality Alliance

Old Forte, Men’s Jail Prinson cells

Showcase FIA national alliance wins at the living museum of resistance – prepare graphic content/narratives about the wins from FIA national and regional alliances to be included in the exhibition. “Story tags” – visitors record a 1-min audio memory to be added to the exhibit.

Guided and self-directed

Fight Inequality Alliance

Women’s Atrium

Exhibition profiling 20 activist stories around the world as a counterpoint to the G20 summit. The exhibition will be installed and work as a passive space for people to walk through – it has engaging content with QR codes for people to find out more about each activist. 20 Large scale portraits – one of each activist.

Guided and self-directed

Needlab

Number 4

An inspiring art installation by Needlab showcasing powerful stories of community-led climate action from across the globe. Through the “Echoes of Fight & Light” series, lamps crafted from recycled paper — including shredded legal documents from real environmental justice cases — are transformed into glowing symbols of resilience, turning the words of advocacy into vessels of hope and collective power.

Self-directed

Rural Women Assesmbly

Food Justice Hub – Marquee at Old Forte

Participants will engage in a guided ‘listening to the seeds’ exercise, contribute to a growing community quilt wall of reflections, and co-create a shared space of ecological and cultural solidarity. Participants will translate this experience into art that will threated together into a guilt.

Guided

Greenpeace International

Number Four, Lower Courtyard

This monumental installation visualizes the imbalance of extreme wealth concentration. A towering stack of oversized “money bricks” — painted gold and styled as giant banknotes — rises unsteadily above scenes of decay: collapsing hospital walls, underfunded schools, and crumbling public infrastructure. The structure’s unstable foundation exposes a stark truth — that vast fortunes are often built upon the erosion of public goods and the unmet needs of communities.

Self- directed and guided

Fight Inequality Alliance + Engage South Africa

Old Forte, Men’s Jail Atrium, Wardens kitchen and Warden’s Office

Images of Youth in action reclaiming power and making the demands know in protest, visually create connections across struggles, and envision the direction of youth-led movements for justice/against inequality.

Guided and self-directed

One in Nine Campaign

Number Four Shed 1, Upper Courtyard

Interactive, living exhibition titled “We the 99% – Women, Labour and Liberation.” The exhibition will use art, sound, and collective writing to explore the intersection of gender, labour, violence, and economic justice.

Self guided

COSATU + FES South Africa

Number 4 Shed 2, Upper Courtyard

A space of memory, power, and possibility. In partnership with COSATU and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES), this landmark exhibition celebrates 40 years of women’s leadership in South Africa’s labour movement the unsung heroines whose courage, discipline, and solidarity shaped the struggle for economic justice and democracy. Through 40 powerful biographies, Herstories honours the women who organised from the shop floor to the streets who carried the weight of both bread and freedom. It’s a vivid reminder that movement-building has always been a collective act — of women, youth, and men standing side by side for justice. Visitors can look forward to an immersive experience that connects past and present drawing lessons from history while reigniting the spirit of unity and solidarity that built the labour movement. This is not just an exhibition, it’s a living archive of courage, care, and collective power.

Self-guided

Community Art Mobilisation Project (CAMP)

Women’s Jail – East Wing

The enCAMPment is a cultural workers’ laboratory where all are invited to join in designing and producing cultural materials (posters, banners, pamphlets, stickers etc.) that support direct action and street-side visual communications to make our revolution irresistable.

Bring your ideas, your playfulness, some whimsy and a message you want to make. No formal artistic training is required.

Fight Inequality Alliance

Old Forte, Men’s Jail Prinson cells

Showcase FIA national alliance wins at the living museum of resistance – prepare graphic content/narratives about the wins from FIA national and regional alliances to be included in the exhibition. “Story tags” – visitors record a 1-min audio memory to be added to the exhibit.

Guided and self-directed

Fight Inequality Alliance

Women’s Atrium

Exhibition profiling 20 activist stories around the world as a counterpoint to the G20 summit. The exhibition will be installed and work as a passive space for people to walk through – it has engaging content with QR codes for people to find out more about each activist. 20 Large scale portraits – one of each activist.

Guided and self-directed

Needlab

Number 4

An inspiring art installation by Needlab showcasing powerful stories of community-led climate action from across the globe. Through the “Echoes of Fight & Light” series, lamps crafted from recycled paper — including shredded legal documents from real environmental justice cases — are transformed into glowing symbols of resilience, turning the words of advocacy into vessels of hope and collective power.

Self-directed

Rural Women Assesmbly

Food Justice Hub – Marquee at Old Forte

Participants will engage in a guided ‘listening to the seeds’ exercise, contribute to a growing community quilt wall of reflections, and co-create a shared space of ecological and cultural solidarity. Participants will translate this experience into art that will threated together into a guilt.

Guided

Greenpeace International

Number Four, Lower Courtyard

This monumental installation visualizes the imbalance of extreme wealth concentration. A towering stack of oversized “money bricks” — painted gold and styled as giant banknotes — rises unsteadily above scenes of decay: collapsing hospital walls, underfunded schools, and crumbling public infrastructure. The structure’s unstable foundation exposes a stark truth — that vast fortunes are often built upon the erosion of public goods and the unmet needs of communities.

Self- directed and guided

Fight Inequality Alliance + Engage South Africa

Old Forte, Men’s Jail Atrium, Wardens kitchen and Warden’s Office

Images of Youth in action reclaiming power and making the demands know in protest, visually create connections across struggles, and envision the direction of youth-led movements for justice/against inequality.

Guided and self-directed

One in Nine Campaign

Number Four Shed, Upper Courtyard

Interactive, living exhibition titled “We the 99% – Women, Labour and Liberation.” The exhibition will use art, sound, and collective writing toexplore the intersection of gender, labour, violence, and economic justice.

6 AFTERNOON Breakout SESSIONS - DAY 1 (14h00 -15:45)

Young Urban Women Movement in partnership with 3. ActionAid International, Young Urban Women Movement, Fight Inequality Alliance, Akina Mama wa Afrika, Nawi Collective, Soul City Institute for Social Justice & Feminist Macro-Economic Alliance

Human Rights Board Room – Women’s Jail

A dynamic feminist economics lab that challenges the violence of neoliberalism and amplifies African feminist economic alternatives. Rooted in African thought leadership and driven by young urban women and feminist allies, it will spotlight and amplify bold, co-created propositions grounded in care, justice, and solidarity.

Hybrid particiaption with poetry and performance

The Southern Africa Migration Network (SAMIN)

Women Jail Lekgotla – Women’s Jail

This session highlights South–South migration as central to Africa’s reality, exposing how EU border regimes restrict internal mobility and shape unjust migration governance. It critiques the G20’s Northern security focus and calls for solidarity in advancing freedom of movement as part of the broader struggle for global justice.

Theatre Performance

Economic Justice Network & Tsimologong Wits University

Hillbrow Courtyard – Old Forte

The Digital Justice Jam serves as a dynamic prelude to the We the 99% People’s Summit, channelling youth creativity and digital innovation into the heart of people-centred policy dialogue. By harnessing storytelling, design thinking, data visualisation, and digital activism, the activation will generate fresh, community-rooted narratives and advocacy tools that reimagine solutions to systemic injustice.

Digital tools utilised to explore how digital tools can drive economic and climate justice

HBF, ACG20, AFRA, Indigo development & change, SAFCEI, SCAT, TCOE, WFP.

A participatory session with community films and story circles spotlighting the experiences of small-scale food producers on the frontlines of climate change, exploring how their local knowledge can shape just, resilient food systems and global policy.

Institute for Economic Justice & Black SashInstitute for Economic Justice & Black Sash

Conference Room 2 – Women’s Jail

A strategic dialogue on reimagining Universal Social Protection Floors as a transformative tool for development and justice in the Global South. The session will unpack the role of basic income security in driving equitable growth, set accountability standards for digital delivery systems to prevent exclusion, and challenge austerity narratives by showcasing progressive financing options. Together, participants will map pathways toward inclusive, rights-based social protection that advances dignity, decent work, and economic transformation.

Dialogue

Union Against Hunger

Imbizo Tent 7 – Secure us Against Hunger (Old Forte)

The workshop will be to introduce the Union Against Hunger to the delegates for them to understand our mision and vision plus the 10 demands we have end hunger in South Africa.

Popular education workshop

Johannesburg Centre for Social Change

Imbizo Tent 2 – Old Forte

This session assesses critiques of the G20, G7 and BRICS ruling classes from the standpoint of civil society. The world capitalist system is radically changing, with self-described multipolarism claiming to challenge the neo-liberal, neo-conservative and paleo-conservative ideologies, but too often contributing to status quo power. Economic injustice, climate catastrophe, and brutal geopolitical wars – especially close to home in the eastern DRC but also Sudan, Palestine and Ukraine – require collective strategies to reclaim people’s power, build solidarity, and advance a just global economy that serves the 99% – the direct opposite of imperialist and sub-imperialist fusion being generated within the G20 in 2025 and certainly when it is hosted by the U.S. in 2026.

Film Festival - Afternoon Session Day 1

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, SA; Oxfam South Africa; AIDC; COSATU; IEJ

Constitution Square

00h45m short-film -01h00 facilitated discussion

ACG20 Hendirch Boild Foundation

Education Room

Morning Sessions: Day 2 (11:00 - 12h30)

11:00 - 12:30 World Café of People's Alternatives

Fight Inequality Alliance

Imbizo Tent 1- Old Forte

An interactive solutions fair where participants rotate through regional and thematic stations — from Tax Justice and Climate Justice to Corporate Accountability — to discuss, refine, and build on ideas from the People’s Assemblies. Through small-group dialogue and collective feedback, each station will produce a bold “solution map” capturing shared strategies and alternatives for the People’s Manifesto

Workshop & Dialogue

Southern Africa Resource Watch (SAWR)

Human Rights Boardroom- Old Forte

Communities and CSOs in the Fight for Fair Tax, Trade, and Transition Finance”—will bridge voices from mining-affected communities and CSOs to collectively interrogate how fiscal and trade systems can better serve the people, not profit.

Popular Education Workshop

FIA

Share the FIA GA final declaration as part of the Commitment ceremony—coordinate with the team that will be writing the final declaration and manifesto to include the key messages presented as conclusions and commitments from the FIA Global Assembly.

Institute for Economic Justice

Conference Room – Old Forte

The session will provide a platform to discuss critical questions that these price patterns and contextual realities raise: what drove the drastic price price inflation we saw since 2022? Was it just simple economics or do certain actors profit from rising food prices? Why do food prices remain high and who benefits? What can be done to stabilise and bring down food prices? What should government be doing to regulate food prices and address hunger and food insecurity? What does a just, resilient, and nourishing food system that makes food available, accessible, and affordable to all look like? 

The session will further aim to amplify measures that are needed to address food prices in the interests of people, and that are embedded in visions and realities of a transformed, resilient, and healthy food system that delivers climate justice, nutrition, dignity and healthy lives. 

This workshop will create a space of interaction between audience members, activists, and experts to discuss and debate the question of food prices and what should be done about them, in the interests of justice, all living beings, and a nourishing future for all. It will be accompanied by a nourishing meal of indigenous food – people’s food that is nutritious, climate-resilient, affordable, and that should be expanded through local food systems that create fair livelihoods, provide affordable food, and protect the planet.

ACT Ubumbano & SIVIO Institute

Imbizo Tent 6 – Old Forte

A conversation on reclaiming people’s power through accountability. This session shares new findings from the 2025 Citizens’ Perceptions and Expectations Survey and showcases tools like the African Citizens Watch promise tracker — sparking collective strategies for citizens and organisations to hold power-holders to their word and strengthen democratic practice across South Africa.

Dialogue – Participatory engagement

Fight Inequality Alliance

Imbizo Tent 5 – Old Forte

Popular education with story circles, mapping, testimonies linking local issues to global systems to build solidarity and shared analysis across national and thematic struggles, recognizing common drivers of inequality and injustice; and Popular education with story circles

WWF

Women’s Jail Lekgotla

The Illustrative People’s Energy Plan (IPEP) presentation workshop will be focused on making an introduction to WWF’s respective partners and stakeholders on the achievements and policy recommendations that the IPEP project has achieved in finalising the report. The presentation will also highlight the need for an Integrated Energy Plan (IEP) in South Africa and how the Ideal Energy Scenario, modelled within the IPEP will provide recommendations for the National Department of Electricity and Energy to create an inclusive and holistic IEP that will benefit the whole of society. 

In addition, I would like it to be an interactive discussion with the attendees after I have finalised the presentation to find out how the attendees would like the IPEP project to be realised in South Africa as it being a policy document.

Workshop & Training

ACG20

Seed Festival Marquee

Participants will engage in a guided ‘listening to the seeds’ exercise, contribute to a growing community quilt wall of reflections, and co-create a shared space of ecological and cultural solidarity.

Workshop & training

350.org

Imbizo Tent 6: Invest in Climate – Old Forte

A town hall debate putting people’s power at the centre of South Africa’s energy future. Through live voting, debate, and dynamic discussion, activists will challenge and clarify competing visions for democratic control and social ownership of energy building consensus on the non-negotiable principles for a truly just and publicly accountable energy transition.

Townhall debate

Climate Justice Coaliton & SAFCEI

Imbizo Tent 2: End the Corruption/Illicit Financial Flows – Old Forte

Visioning exercise supporting participatory action research on ground-up green industrialisaton futures in South Africa and beyond

Workshop & training

One in Nine & EnCampment

Number 4 Upper Courtyard

The One in Nine Campaign will host an interactive, living exhibition titled “We the 99% – Women, Labour and Liberation.” The exhibition will use art, sound, and collective writing to explore the intersection of gender, labour, violence, and economic justice.

We the 99 Wall” – An interactive wall where participants can write, draw, or paste messages reflecting on how their labour, survival, and resistance connect to the global struggle of the 99%.

12 Tables for 80 Participants

Union Against Hunger & Institute for Economic Justice

Conference Room 2 – Women’s Jail

A powerful, people-centred dialogue unpacking South Africa’s food price crisis — asking who profits from hunger, why prices remain high, and what it will take to build a just, resilient, and nourishing food system for all. Blending expert insight with grassroots perspectives, the workshop invites participants to co-create strategies for fair food pricing, climate justice, and dignified livelihoods — all while sharing a nourishing meal of indigenous, climate-resilient foods.

Popular education

Women Informal Employment Globilizing and Organising (WEIGO)

Imbizo Tent 3- Old Forte Mandela Courtyard

Our session aims to make 3 contributions:

i) it highlights the role that decent work in the informal economy can play in reducing economic inequality.

ii) it seeks “un-invisibilize” the role of workers in the informal economy, and the contribution they make to the economy and society. Across four sectors – waste reclaiming, home-based work, domestic work, and street vending – we will showcase the ways in which workers in the informal economy are already showing us a pathway towards a more equitable economy.

iii) based on the realities of work in the informal economy, to make the case for policy reform, aimed at changing the way both governments and the corporate sector view and treat workers.

We aim to do this by producing an interactive exhibition space to raise visibility and understanding of the informal economy. We will also presenting worker’s solutions and demands, alongside their stories and experiences to build alliances and solidarity.

Dialogues

Ahmed Kathrada Foundation

Imbizo Tent 4 – Old Forte

This dialogue circle aims to explore how racial inequality continues to shape South Africa’s economic landscape, and to collectively imagine what a future free from racism and economic exclusion could look like. Participants will reflect on personal and collective experiences, identify key barriers to racial and economic justice, and co-develop ideas for transformation rooted in solidarity, equity, and belonging. Expected outcomes include the identification of grassroots commitments and potential collaborations for sustained racial and economic justice efforts.

Dialogues

Caritus Africa

Imbizo Tent 7 – Mandela Courtyard

To facilitate a high-level dialogue among different targets, including women , youth , civil society leaders, Un and AU bodies, and bring one voice on debt justice to the g20.

Dialogues

Magamba Network (Kick Polluters Out)

Men’s Jail Atrium

Participants will be immersed in the story of the  Kick Total Out Of AFCON campaign as youth-led digital resistance. They’ll explore how creative digital tools like memes, parody, hip-hop and satire– are used to fight the “extractive service stations” of the 1% as they resonate well with young people.

Featuring the main hero content screening  Journal Rappé – OIL UNITED vs GREEN TEAM (avec Xuman & Keyti feat Defty)

Dialogues

CSAAWU and  TCOE

Assembly Marque – Constitution Square

FILM of the slavery and exploitation in the Western Cape Winelands

FILM

The Campaign on Digital Ethics (CODE)

Education Room – Constitution Square

The “Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media” documentary follows the journey of the Social Media Victims Law Center and their fight for justice for families of victims harmed by social media. CODE will be screening this documentary to shine a spotlight on the dangers of social media, its implications on mental health and gaps in legislation in South Africa and globally. Furthermore, the documentary will highlight the positive aspects of joint advocacy campaigns and efforts which can be emulated in the regional context.

Film Screening

AFTERNOON SESSIONS: DAY 2 14H00-15H45

Financial Architecture Internation Reform & Mobilize South Africa

Constitution Boardroom – Old Forte

The session will develop a collective action plan, with a focus , specifically, connecting the mass movements present in the space, to greater actions among think tanks, that will ultimately lead to more effective and collaborative campaigning globally

Workshop

Southern Africa Resource Watch (SAWR)

Human Rights Boardroom – Old Fort

Communities and CSOs in the Fight for Fair Tax, Trade, and Transition Finance”—will bridge voices from mining-affected communities and CSOs to collectively interrogate how fiscal and trade systems can better serve the people, not profit

Popular Education Workshop

“EnCampment, MACUA/YAMUA, Vusikasilam, Q4P KAAX, AbM, ILRIG/Keep left & One in Nine “

East  Wing – Women’s Jail

CAMP invitess community organisations, members, partners, and the WE99 audience to enquire, engage, and actively participate in the Cultural Worker Laboratory to amplify the process and collaborative work that CAMP and its partners have undertaken over the past 2–3 months as part of the G20 Narrative Repair Project

Cultural Workers Lab

Institute for Economic Justcie (IEJ) and Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) , School of Economics, University of Johannesburg, Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, Khanya College & Youth Lab

Women’s Jail Lekgotla- Women’s Jail

A vibrant, youth-driven space that demystifies the economy, sparks fresh perspectives, and builds a people-centred movement for change where young people learn, debate, and co-create alternatives to the current economic system.

Roundtable Dialogue

Fight Inequality Alliance

Men’s Jail Atrium

a space for collective healing, intercultural dialogue, and spiritual-political action, where the peoples of the world can share ancestral knowledge, healing practices from the Pedagogy of Mother Earth, and strategies of decolonization and de-patriarchalization, through this space we aim to strengthen and celebrate the spiritual dimension of global resistance against the civilizational, patriarchal, and colonial system.

Ritual, art making, chanting, drumming to foster healing aand oneness

Creative Comms

Imbizo Tent 5 – Old Forte

Learn directly from frontline harm-reduction practitioners from Creative Commons NPC as they share how South Africa has transformed evidence-based harm reduction into real impact on the ground.

Discover why harm reduction is a global health priority, how the CDA’s Drug Master Plan drives change, and how these strategies help prevent HIV and HCV among women and vulnerable communities. This session also aligns with broader movement goals—quality education, civil society rights, and integrated governance.

Dialogue

Amandla.Mobi

Democracy Room – Old Forte

The purpose of the session is to share with others how individuals and communities have come together to organise for issues through petitions; as well as share knowledge and skills on how to start and run successful petitions and campaigns.

Workshop and Training

World Wide Fund (WWF) South Africa

Women’s Jail Lekgotla  – Women’s Jail

An interactive workshop inviting communities to shape the future of South Africa’s Integrated Energy Plan. Through open dialogue and reflection, participants will explore issues of energy access, clean water, community-led initiatives, and the right to say no and turning policy recommendations into people-driven action and accountability.

Workshop & training

The African CSO G20 Climate, Energy and Sustainable Finance Network (ACG20), Fossil Free South Africa, Coalition for Human Rights in Development, 350.org, Project 90by2030, WWF, CALS

Imbizo tent 6 – Women’s Jail

A dynamic African activist circle tackling the impacts of extractive energy on water and food systems. Participants will share experiences, spark dialogue, and co-create strategies for energy justice, food sovereignty, and the right to water, building solidarity and mapping joint campaigns for a post-extractivist future.

Dialogue

Women in Informal Employment Globilizing and Organising (WEIGO)

Imbizo tent 1 – Women’s Jail

Across four sectors – waste reclaiming, home-based work, domestic work, and street vending – WEIGO will showcase the ways in which workers in the informal economy are already showing us a pathway towards a more equitable economy. An interactive exhibition space to raise visibility, understanding of the informal economy and present worker’s solutions and demands, alongside their stories and experiences to build alliances and solidarity.

Worldcafe – reption set up

Commonwealth Youth Council

Education Room – Number 4

This dialogue challenges the old hierarchies of power and champions Africa’s emergence as a strategic global force. With its youthful population, vast resources, and renewed political confidence, Africa is shaping — not reacting to — the future. The CYC theme empowers young people to lead this shift through stronger governance, multilateral collaboration, and transformative ideas that put people and planet first.

Dialogue

FIA

Imbizo Tent 7 – Old Forte

Activists will sit in a circle to mimic a fireplace. We shall request one of the confirmed participants to read a meditation and grounding poem.

Around the fireplace, activists will take turns to share about how the nurture communities of care in their praxis.

After 10 contributions, we shall ask folks to sing out chants of power from their different contexts. This will create an ambience of courage and unity with close attention to the diversity of identities we have in the room.

We shall close the session with the co-lead of the session to read out the different ways in which movements are building stronger, healthier and courageous communities.

FIA

Imbizo Tent 7 – Old Forte

Activists will sit in a circle to mimic a fireplace. We shall request one of the confirmed participants to read a meditation and grounding poem.

Around the fireplace, activists will take turns to share about how the nurture communities of care in their praxis.

After 10 contributions, we shall ask folks to sing out chants of power from their different contexts. This will create an ambience of courage and unity with close attention to the diversity of identities we have in the room.

We shall close the session with the co-lead of the session to read out the different ways in which movements are building stronger, healthier and courageous communities.

Women’s Jail Lekgotla

Informing ordinary people (young people in particular) of the key economic

reasons for the current crises they face, in an easy to understand manner

  • Platforming new economic thinking so that economic alternatives are explored

and explained

  • Encouraging input from all young people toward developing a youth economic

agenda

  • Allowing for discussion and contestation of economic ideas and theories
  • Promoting a people-centred approach to analysing economic issues
  • Promoting a people-centred approach to organising and mobilising for change
  • Providing a counter-space to the exclusive G20 discussions, one that is

grounded in collective engagement and founded on democratic contribution

World Council of Churches in Partnership with Caritas Africa, Lutheran World Federation, All Africa Council of Churches, Christian Aid, Msingi Trust, Laudato Si, Jubilee USA, World Communion of reformed Churches, World Methodist council, United Society Partners in the Gospel

Conference Room 2 – Women’s Jail

An interfaith or ecumenical prayer service lifting up the theme of debt justice as linked to climate justice and people’s access to public services. To create a space for prophetic voices to speak on issues of justice. Bringing moral/ethical/spiritual reflections to bear on issues of debt, climate change and public services. Building common understanding and/or a joint call among different faith communities on the aforementioned issues. Foster solidarity with marginalized groups and inspire faith-rooted actions addressing the aforementioned issues

Ritual prayer service with hymns and scripture readings

Fight Inequality Alliance

Rose Garden Courtyard – Women’s Jail

A space for collective healing, intercultural dialogue, and spiritual-political action, where the peoples of the world can share ancestral knowledge, healing practices from the Pedagogy of Mother Earth, and strategies of decolonization and de-patriarchalization, through this space we aim to strengthen and celebrate the spiritual dimension of global resistance against the civilizational, patriarchal, and colonial system.

Ritual, art making, chanting, drumming to foster healing aand oneness

ACT Ubumbano & SIVIO Institute

Imbizo Tent 6 – Old Forte

The partner organisations, together with other Southern African civil society organisations, are working together to strengthen public accountability. Through a series of processes – community engagements around the understandings and practice of holding power holders to account; the establishment of an online national ‘promise tracker’ (African Citizens Watch); community polling on perceptions and expectations of government performance – the project hopes to provide new insights and a platform for collective work on holding the power holders to account for their obligations and commitment. The purpose of the session is to share and discuss recent outputs from this project – the 2025 Citizens’ Perceptions and Expectations Survey based on responses from 3008 citizens across the 9 provinces of South Africa, and grow the network of organisations working on accountability practice.

Gender Links (WOSSO & RWVL-SA)

Imbizo Tent 4 – Enforce Corporate Accountability – Old Forte

A collaborative dialogue for Youth and WOSSO fellows from the Global South to align feminist advocacy with the We, the 99% focus areas — from SRHR and GBV to climate, digital inclusion, and youth employment. The session introduces the PushForward4Equality campaign, highlights how feminist funding supports youth leadership, and generates actionable recommendations for the Summit declaration.

Dialogue

Closing Assembly – Plenary Tent: Reflect and Review the day.

Closing Assembly – Plenary Tent: Final reading and validation of the declaration.

FILMS FOR DAY 2

HlanganiSA; Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung; BioWatch

Constitution Square

Film Screening

01h00m film – 00h45m panel discussion

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