According to South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation on Saturday, the Global South’s hopes for a new global order are progressing, but the continent has not yet fully reaped the socioeconomic rewards of alliances with powerful economies.
The statements were made by Naledi Pandor during a speech at the Cape Town Conversation, a venue where thousands of delegates met to talk about global governance-related topics last week.
What these collaborations haven’t accomplished, according to Pandor, is give Africa more industrial capacity, greater access to energy, or better manufacturing capabilities.
According to the minister, Africa needs to demand that current collaborations provide these outcomes since “this is what will make Africa free.” “Our partnerships are partnerships of supplication and not partnerships for true development without these elements,” she clarified.
Pandor thinks that African executives need to pick their business partners more carefully.
“As Africa, we must create new guidelines for our interactions and make sure we accomplish goals that fundamentally change the status quo.”
She added that because of the present tensions and conflicts throughout the world, less attention is being paid to the African continent. “At the moment, there are twenty active battles. Pandor warned her audience that coups had been more common recently, particularly in her native West Africa.
According to the South African, the continent is beginning to regress from its earlier democratic accomplishments. She continued, “We also see a worrying decline in democratic practises and in the formation of institutions for the public good.”
The port city in South Africa hosted the Cape Town Conversation, which came to an end on Sunday. The yearly gathering offers a forum for debating significant and pertinent issues, such as the difficulties the Global South faces.
