IN CONVERSATION WITH SEKOETLANE PHAMODI
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While the world’s most powerful economies meet behind closed doors
at the G20 Summit (22–23 November 2025) at the Nasrec Expo
Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, movements from across Africa
and the Global South will gather under the banner of We the 99, about
10 kilometres away at Constitution Hill, to offer human and practical
alternatives to a global economic system rigged in favour of elites and
billionaires.
From 20 to 22 November 2025, We the 99% People’s Summit for
Global Economic Justice will transform the historic Constitution Hill
into a living space of resistance, imagination, and renewal. A people’s
counterpoint to the Group of Twenty’s policies that have deepened
inequality and ecological crisis worldwide. Bringing together
grassroots movements, workers, artists, and activists from across the
globe, the People’s Summit will expose the structural injustices
sustaining the current economic order and demand a just
redistribution of wealth, power, and opportunity. It stands as a
declaration that those who bear the burdens of unjust debt, austerity,
and exploitation will no longer be spoken for, they will speak, act, and
organise for themselves. “Inequality is not a mistake, it is caused by
political choices made in boardrooms and cabinet councils by elites
and billionaires. They have deepened inequality and destroyed the
environment that sustained our communities.
We the 99, draw a Redline against this injustice - People before Profit.
The people who created this crisis cannot be the ones to fix it. Real
solutions to fix this mess must come from We the 99, who are the
Global Majority,” said Kearabetswe Moopelo of New Economy Hub,
and Programme Coordinator for We The 99 People’s Summit. “Gen Z
around the world have spoken. Young people, workers, carers,
farmers have raised their voices. People on the front line of the
climate breakdown and hit by economic inequality have sounded the
09:35
alarm that enough is enough. The global economic system is rigged
for the 1% against the rest of humanity and the planet,” said Jenny
Ricks, General Secretary of the Fight Inequality Alliance.
The Summit’s three-day programme will feature political dialogues,
movement barazas, art installations, and performances by leading
cultural activists including iPhupho L’ka Biko, DBN Gogo, The Brother
Moves On, Lebo Mashile, and Maglera Doe Boy. It will culminate in
The 99% Uprising Festival, a public celebration of collective resistance
and renewal, where art and activism meet to reimagine the world
anew. The We The 99 People’s Summit stands as a bold counterpoint
to elite decision-making, rooted in the conviction that global economic
governance must be reimagined by and for the people. Over three
days, Constitution Hill will become a living demonstration of people-
centred alternatives: spaces for learning, strategizing, and celebrating
the power of the many over the few.
at the G20 Summit (22–23 November 2025) at the Nasrec Expo
Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa, movements from across Africa
and the Global South will gather under the banner of We the 99, about
10 kilometres away at Constitution Hill, to offer human and practical
alternatives to a global economic system rigged in favour of elites and
billionaires.
From 20 to 22 November 2025, We the 99% People’s Summit for
Global Economic Justice will transform the historic Constitution Hill
into a living space of resistance, imagination, and renewal. A people’s
counterpoint to the Group of Twenty’s policies that have deepened
inequality and ecological crisis worldwide. Bringing together
grassroots movements, workers, artists, and activists from across the
globe, the People’s Summit will expose the structural injustices
sustaining the current economic order and demand a just
redistribution of wealth, power, and opportunity. It stands as a
declaration that those who bear the burdens of unjust debt, austerity,
and exploitation will no longer be spoken for, they will speak, act, and
organise for themselves. “Inequality is not a mistake, it is caused by
political choices made in boardrooms and cabinet councils by elites
and billionaires. They have deepened inequality and destroyed the
environment that sustained our communities.
We the 99, draw a Redline against this injustice - People before Profit.
The people who created this crisis cannot be the ones to fix it. Real
solutions to fix this mess must come from We the 99, who are the
Global Majority,” said Kearabetswe Moopelo of New Economy Hub,
and Programme Coordinator for We The 99 People’s Summit. “Gen Z
around the world have spoken. Young people, workers, carers,
farmers have raised their voices. People on the front line of the
climate breakdown and hit by economic inequality have sounded the
09:35
alarm that enough is enough. The global economic system is rigged
for the 1% against the rest of humanity and the planet,” said Jenny
Ricks, General Secretary of the Fight Inequality Alliance.
The Summit’s three-day programme will feature political dialogues,
movement barazas, art installations, and performances by leading
cultural activists including iPhupho L’ka Biko, DBN Gogo, The Brother
Moves On, Lebo Mashile, and Maglera Doe Boy. It will culminate in
The 99% Uprising Festival, a public celebration of collective resistance
and renewal, where art and activism meet to reimagine the world
anew. The We The 99 People’s Summit stands as a bold counterpoint
to elite decision-making, rooted in the conviction that global economic
governance must be reimagined by and for the people. Over three
days, Constitution Hill will become a living demonstration of people-
centred alternatives: spaces for learning, strategizing, and celebrating
the power of the many over the few.
