“It clearly demonstrated that Africa needs to produce its own food and medicines, to strengthen continental supply chains, and to invest in infrastructure and capacitate African institutions.
“To illustrate the extent of the challenge, the UN Economic Commission for Africa estimates that Africa imports about 94% of its pharmaceutical and medicinal needs from outside the continent at an annual cost of $16bn,” he said. Ramaphosa added that half of Africa’s people are women, and they are the dominant actors in the informal sectors of Africa’s economic landscape.
“Despite this, women only generate about a third of the continent’s combined GDP. It is important that the Intra-African Trade Fair gives special attention to African women in business, recognising their great potential as drivers of economic change across the continent.Ramaphosa added that the continent must find ways of attracting more investment into economies and, crucially, “we must encourage African businesses to invest in each other’s countries”.
“This requires that we improve the ease of doing business in our countries and provide protection for investors through strong and independent legal systems that will ensure the sanctity of contract and fair and expeditious legal processes.”
Attending Trade Fairs will not solve the problem. Urging other governments to address their problems wont solve your problems. Instead, sweep your own doorstep . Root out corruption, return the rule of law and allow business to do business, and goverment to do government.
Ramaphosa Mae a gae weitse... Marete a gae strght!!
But everywhere you go, supermarkets, restaurants, etc… you see the workers there are foreigners….please explain that. It is open border free African trade mentality and illegal immigrants that’s the problem. Please address the root cause. Liers!!
You bunch have no ideas.. Unable to trade and create jobs
Another exchange of money among themselves with meetings every with no results to the masses
Same words... no action. Every speech
Blah blah Cyrol. Zzz
Peculiar how, once the statement saying that 'we work tirelessly together to address...' is issued, all work to achieve the objective actually stops...
Totally correct Mr. President.
He must lead by an example by leaving his position to the youth
The DIRCO_ZA & HomeAffairsSA must immediately implement visa requirements on the following countries: 1 Somalia 2 Ethiopia 3 Zimbabwe 4 Mozambique 5 Nigeria 6 Malawi 7 Congo 8 Ghana 9 Build wall between Zim & RSA!!! PutSouthAficansFirst
The man can not work to address youth unemployment in his country but telling others to do so
Ít was amazing journey with you Mr Hendricksnino I never knew you were good like this because you just really make me happy and care about my family with your platform í can't stop saying this brothers and sisters never ignore coñtàct him Mr Hendricksnino
every year the same rhetoric 🙄
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