South Africa president says Chinese aid is not ‘new colonialism’
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks during the high-level dialogue between Chinese and African leaders and business and industry representatives ahead of the 6th Forum of China-Africa Cooperation at the Beijing National Convention Centre in Beijing on September 3, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Lintao Zhang
BEIJING – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday delivered a stinging rebuttal to criticism of China’s development aid in Africa, following a pledge by Chinese President Xi Jinping to invest $60 billion in the continent.
Speaking at a summit on China-Africa cooperation, Ramaphosa said the meeting “refutes the view that a new colonialism is taking hold in Africa, as our detractors would have us believe.” /kga
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