Global Eye — Season 1, Episode 14: 08/12/2025: South Africa’s G20 - Housing Woes & Trump’s Refugees

Episode synopsis

Nomsa Maseko reports from South Africa in the wake of the first-ever G20 on African soil. In two exclusive reports, Eye Investigations hears from residents of abandoned and hijacked buildings just a few kilometres from the summit location and, in the province of Free State, meets some of President Trump’s South African refugees.

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