{"id":22646,"date":"2026-01-20T12:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T10:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-leads-the-countrys-delegation-to-2026-wef-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:35","slug":"sa-minister-leads-the-countrys-delegation-to-2026-wef-meeting","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-leads-the-countrys-delegation-to-2026-wef-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Minister leads the country&#8217;s delegation to 2026 WEF meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">World Economic Forum (WEF) leaders in government, business and civil society are gathering in Davos, Switzerland, for this week\u2019s annual meeting, being held under the theme \u201cA spirit of dialogue\u201d.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Team South Africa (SA), led by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana says the message they are taking to the world at this year\u2019s summit is more positive than last year.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Brand SA Chairperson Ipeleng Selele, who is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, says: \u201cGodongwana is leading our delegation, and we are here to simply tell the world that we came here last year, we communicated where we are with regards to our national reforms. We are here this year to share the status of where we are, the good progress that we have made, and most importantly, to have proof points, particularly around infrastructure.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAs you know, and you might have noticed, the progress that Transnet is making, also Minister of Electricity, Kgosietsho Ramokgopa \u00a0is here with us, with the Eskom team, they\u2019re also going to be talking about the reforms. I mean, the progress that they\u2019ve made, and, of course, are busy meeting with investors, engaging with investors.\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014SABC\u2014<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15107,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-22646","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Team South Africa is led by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.","published_date":null,"news_description":"Team South Africa is led by Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25872,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22646\/revisions\/25872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}