South Africa promised on Thursday to tackle the prejudice fuelling a wave of dea...
CAPE TOWN - South Africa promised on Thursday to tackle the prejudice fuelling a wave of deadly riots and xenophobic attacks, as international anger over the violence overshadowed a pan-African economic conference in Cape Town.
Ramaphosa had hoped the three-day World Economic Forum would serve as a shop window for his efforts to revive South Africa’s ailing economy and boost intra-African trade. Nigeria, whose vice president had boycotted the summit on Wednesday, also recalled its High Commissioner to South Africa. Summit attendee Peter Attard Montalto, head of capital markets research at financial services research firm Intellidex, said that while private sector participation had been good, the government side “feels like a wasteland.”“That is obviously partly a function of the reaction to the xenophobic violence, but even the original guest list was not that big.”
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