TOUGH TIMES: SA faces a host of challenges as it chairs AU By Peter Fabricius
President Cyril Ramaphosa and International Relations and Co-operation Minister Naledi Pandor spelt out the tough domestic and diplomatic challenges South Africa faces when they addressed South Africa’s ambassadors to other African countries in Pretoria on Tuesday 28 January. The diplomats were gathered to consider how South Africa should use the African Union chair to advance Africa and South Africa’s interests.
South Africa would be holding all these positions at a time of “tectonic shifts in global affairs” with growing challenges to multilateralism as the global community increasingly focused on self-preservation, unilateralism and “war-baiting” rather than the good of all. “We are fighting off the possibility of a credit rating downgrade but also, we have the duty to revive a sluggish economy even as we push back a high unemployment rate in the face of continued private-sector job shedding.
“The intermittent attacks on foreign nationals who are often accused of social crime and ‘stealing South African jobs’ has become par for the course, earning our country the criticism of several countries in Africa and some civil society organisations. He noted that South Africa would chair the AU towards the end of the AU’s aspiration of “silencing the guns by 2020”.
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