Africa wants to take charge of its resources: Dlamini-Zuma
Former African Union (AU) Chairperson Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma says Africa wants to take charge of the resources and agriculture. She spoke to the SABC News during the opening of the G20 Social Summit at Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Centre in Boksburg, East Rand, on Tuesday.
Dlamini-Zuma says she is very excited about the G20 coming to the African continent and South Africa for the first time.
She says, “As Africa, we want to build the Africa we want, and we want to be given the space to ensure that we take the destiny in our hands, to take charge of our resources, we take charge of our agriculture and feed ourselves as a continent. We want a skills revolution for young people, so that they can have skills, get jobs, create jobs.”
Asked about the United States (US) and President Donald Trump snubbing the Summit, Dlamini-Zuma responded by saying, “It’s their choice.”
GLOBAL SOUTH
One of the delegates attending the meeting, Healing the Nation Founder Dr. Mary Shaffer-Stevens, says the G20 is there to resolve the problems of the world, especially for Africa and the global south.
She says the Global South was robbed of its inheritance and there has to be equality.
Shaffer-Stevens says, “There is no equality because even our currency, you find that we are depending on other people’s currencies. We’ve got to use our own local currencies so that other currencies don’t control our currency and also I feel that there has got to be a health issue to be addressed, especially in the global south. Also, the global south is being subdued in the sense that they get their funding from the IMF (International Monetary Fund) at a very high rate. As a result, you find that they can’t pay back debt.”