South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, seems to have evoked the way the late Robert Mugabe, former Zimbabwe President, used to address western leaders.
Openly telling them bitter truths, Mugabe always seized every available space to present the global leaders as hypocrites and oppressors of the black.
Ramphosa also on Friday shunned diplomacy when he accused them of propagating imbalanced humanity during the COVID-19 war.
He said resentment towards the West still lingered over the treatment of African countries during the pandemic.
Speaking at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris, Ramaphosa described how African nations “felt like we were beggars when we needed access to vaccines”.
Ramaphosa added that “we felt like life in the northern hemisphere is much more important than life in the global south.”The
South African strongman also took aim at pledges by rich countries towards developing nations to help them adapt to climate change.
South Africa’s foreign policy under Ramaphosa is under scrutiny in the West after his recent visit to Moscow to meet President Vladimir Putin and following allegations that the country provided arms covertly to the Kremlin.
Ramaphosa led a 7-country African peace delegation to Moscow and Kyiv this month that pushed for an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which has driven up the price of food and fertiliser imports for African consumers.
