From the president’s desk: Investment needed to make Africa a champion of economic growth

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Africa must become a continent that is thriving and prosperous, not one from which its people are dying in an attempt to leave, writes President Cyril Ramaphosa. AfricaDay2021

Last week media around the world carried heart-rending images of a young boy adrift off the coast of the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. He was clinging to a makeshift buoy made of plastic bottles and desperately trying to make it to shore.

Life is so difficult for millions of people on our continent and opportunities so few that they would risk their lives crossing the sea in pursuit of a better future. Last week, I joined several African leaders at a summit in Paris hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron on the financing of African economies in the post-Covid-19 era.

In what was described as a New Deal for Africa, leaders and international organisations recognised that we share a collective responsibility to implement financial relief measures for African countries in distress.

 

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voetsekANC

....He can not even fix SA,,,,AU os a mess....when he said Africa who does he mean because them as leadership are doing nothing

Africans are only worried about how to line their own pockets rather than fixing their country.

Preach brother preach!!

How can that happen when your members steal food parcels ment for the poor

CORRUPTION is a deadly disease to Africa! and that disease has placed Africa to where IT is today! CR has failed dismally to fight the same disease within his Party! let alone the government - THE Day AFRICA start fighting this disease I will know we are getting somewhere!

Rat, blows as it bites.

Theyeave to become slaves and a cheap labour force for other countries. Africa must fix her issues. Pressure from African continental peers _AfricanUnion

CyrilRamaphosa cant even fix SA, let alone Africa MYANC GovernmentZA RonaldLamola MbalulaFikile DlaminiZuma OscarMabuyane, sziks zsaul1 David_Makhura

He must resign then...

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