Johannesburg metro police department had their hands full on Saturday responding to G20 road closures and a 33-car pile-up near Krugersdorp.

An anti-migrant group called Operation Dudula is blocking foreigners from public health clinics in South Africa.

A series of posters and illustrations projected onto buildings demanded urgent action on issues including climate accountability, the global debt crisis, and women’s rights.

In a break from tradition, leaders on Saturday adopted the final declaration right at the onset of the first of two days of meetings in Johannesburg, with the United States (US) absent from the talks.

JOHANNESBURG -South Africa's president said on Thursday the U.S. had signalled it might change its mind and participate in the G20 summit in Johannesburg after a boycott by the Trump administration, but the White House dismissed the report as "fake news."

One of the world's largest polluters, the United States, won't even attend this weekend's G20 summit as it boycotts over U.S. President Donald Trump’s widely rejected claims that South Africa is violently persecuting a white minority.

Fifteen women are killed every day in a country with one of the highest rates of gender violence in the world.