Africa must unite and do away with borders: Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta in Pretoria

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If Africa wants to be a manufacturing giant, it needs to do away with borders. This was the view of Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta on Tuesday afternoon while on a state visit to SA.

Addressing political and business leaders, Kenyatta told the gathering: “We need to see the African market as one. We need to be able to develop giants like Airbus which makes components in the United Kingdom, France and other parts of Europe.

“It has become a global conglomerate. They did not come together because they love each other — we all know how much they hate each other — but they came together to survive. Africa must come together for us to survive.”He said he was happy to hear that SAA and Kenya Airways have agreed on a strategic partnership framework towards the creation of a pan-African airline that will draw on the capabilities and advantages of the two airlines. “I am hoping to be one of your first customers,” he said.

“Kenya is SA’s largest trading partner in Africa outside the Southern African Development Community, and SA is the biggest exporter of goods to Kenya on the continent.” He said the depth and breadth of this trade and investment relationship makes Kenya a key partner for the country in East Africa.

 

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Then Kenya must lead the way so that I can see something 🤔

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They must first build industries, they can then talk about open borders to allow unrestricted movement of labour and goods.

africaupdates This muzukulu has been immunized.

If that happens we will have coup after coup because everyone wants to be president,lol

This is going to be fun to watch!

China is a manufacturing giant and it has borders. So why do we have to make away with our borders. Stop talking crap.

Imihloyo yethu he must say straight that he want to retire in South Africa

That's when African will gain respect

Kenya must lead by example 5 years pilot plan then we can talk!

He means South African borders

I should be considered for that to merge with my Dream for Afrika

Funny how when this 'borders' issue comes up, its always about our (south africa) border.

He is 100% correct

Afrophobes with their insult mode.

After what the jihadists did to his country he still want more countries to suffer such? No ways that must happen. We are happy with our brothers I theire countries, rather let's meet when we do business and return to country of origin

He must lead by example and allow people to do whatever they like there.

So that drugs and human frafficers can move freely between countries

A country without border control is a disaster. Go back to school with your hidden agenda.

Julius_S_Malema they are expressing your idea as if it is theirs...

He is mad

How you gonna close borders if land was took to the native people forcefully? Justice demands that we confiscate the ill gotten gains of imperialists and return them to the victims of imperialism.

So that SA will then inherit civil wars that are happening to most of the African countries? and Boko Haram?, no ways. They like fighting over silly things and we don't want to be part of it.

Do we have borders ?

Borders are not issue the problem in our continent is poor administration and greedy/corrupt mentality that's the problem. Borders are for economic development.

That can never happen, it will only create more problems, then everybody can come and work for slave labour pay and South Africans will go hungry and Jobless this is not America this is South Africa so stop trying to make S.A America.We know how to servive with our culture.

Total BS

He had a chibuku this one.

They must lead by example

Maybe u shud start by manufacturing first.. Africans leaders must have a clear picture of who is owning means of production bfre they preach free trade on open boarders.. We are accomplicing the growth of capitalists business.. We dnt produce anythn rona

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They should open borders for their neighbors and see what happens, especially in the East Africa. Non-stop violence

Won't happen. The system is set. People don't get it, if we stop exporting our minerals and just sell them here, refine them, clean the diamonds ourselves and sell the finished product, we would be rich. But 🤷🏾‍♂️

South Africa has been swamped by illegal immigrants and it has become a manufacturing dwarf.

I think this one is mad how border affect Manufacturing? Or they manufacture at borders?

He says that bullshit because nobody is going into his country illegally, they all leave his country illegally, he don't have an overflow foreigners in his country like we do

Nonsense. A borderless Africa will be a disaster for successful Nations. They will be overrun by people from failed states, rendering them also failed states. Stupid idea.

They only unite in South Africa

FREE TRADE can happen with boarders. Trade is not about gates, its economic & political policies that are well co-ordinated enable win-win trading.

Working together as Africa in terms of free trade it's great but the issue is when citizens of these othr African countries all flock to SA

Kenya must lead by example and open their borders!

Just open borders with Somalia and do away with Dabaab I wanna see something, don't come shit on us

PutSouthAfricaFirst 😎

He must first open the border between Kenya and the neighboring Somalia. And thereafter tell us whether the experiment works or not😀

Well spoken my brother

Out of so many countries in this continent he only tell us about this nonsense...uyanya.

Nonsense!

Uyanya lo

You want borderless Africa just to manufacture tooth pick most of these countries have like 50 to 60 years of independence/democracy they have nothing to show their people scattered around the world i guess they are still waiting for white people to colonize again

Go further: do away with intra-Africa visas, make way for free movement of goods and Africans across Africa + work towards single currency; it works in Europe, why not in Africa? Wake up, _AfricanUnion

So true

absolute bullshit

These Africans I want to smoke whatever they are smoking

Kenya must first open borders for Somalians.

If Kenya can lead by example,let them open borders first then SA will follow simple

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Thanks Mr.President Kenyatta your totally correct brother.

Tell your people to buy roll on deodorant please when they come here

These guys are quiet about what is happening in Ethopia and pushing this agenda of opening the borders.

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