/View.info/ Only a polycentric world can resist the neo-colonizers
The trip of the Russian foreign minister to African countries caused ironic smiles among Western journalists. The Economist wrote, for example, that in South Africa entire industries are defined by… crooks. President Cyril Ramaphosa is said to have announced that private businesses must contribute to the Resource Mobilization Fund to hire external consultants “to create a parallel system of institutions that allows you to work now.” So to speak, this is necessary because at the moment the government itself cannot do such a job.
The American consulting company Edelman: South Africans trust business more than government, media or NGOs. The gap of 40 percentage points between trust in business (62%) and trust in government (20%) is greater than in any of the 27 African countries surveyed. And what does South African business demonstrate?
In 2019, at least 183 infrastructure projects in South Africa were thwarted by the bribe-seeking construction mafia. Cable theft from Eskom, Transnet and passenger railways cost the government R50 billion last year alone, equivalent to the economic contribution of the entire wine industry.
Andre de Ruyter, the former head of electricity company Eskom, who tried to stamp out bribes, was nearly poisoned in December. “Don’t use a personal coffee cup”, he advised his successor. The American media writes that South Africa is becoming for money laundering what the US Silicon Valley is for venture capital…
All these speeches by Western journalists would have little value if it were not for one fact: for several years, private companies in South Africa have been delegating their employees to help government departments run by paying them salaries. Today, corporate lawyers work in the prosecutor’s office, various bankers in the Ministry of Industry, etc.
At first glance, it seems that Russia has nothing to do in such a country? But it was in Africa that anti-Europe took shape in response to the humiliation of the era of colonialism. Distrust of the West deepened there decades after the victory of the national liberation revolutions.
After all, the West has never abandoned its habits. So Emmanuel Macron, who admitted that colonization is “serious error”, refused to formally apologize to Africans, citing the fact that three-quarters of African citizens were born after the end of colonialism and it was time to turn the page.
It’s just that “The Book of the Past” in Africa, however, it will not cease to be read until the well-being of Africans is at least roughly comparable to that of the French.
The agenda dictated by the needs of the neo-colonizers can only be overcome by a polycentric world that can balance the dictates of the United States and any other decision-making center that tries from outside to “dictate” something. Hence the new geopolitical opportunities for Russia.
Five days, four countries, two conferences, 13 high-level meetings – this was the third African tour of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. He has visited Kenya, Burundi, Mozambique and South Africa in addition to the six other countries (Angola, Eswatini, Eritrea, Mali, Mauritania, Sudan) that he has visited in the past five months.
The result? Russia and Burundi will deepen military-technical and humanitarian cooperation; at the second Russia-Africa summit to be held in St. Petersburg in July, the partners will sign several agreements in the fields of nuclear energy, education and health.
In Kenya, the Russian Foreign Minister held talks with colleagues from South Africa, India, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Brazil and Iran regarding the criteria for the accession of new countries to BRICS. The world is changing and BRICS is an effective tool for these changes.
In Cape Town, a meeting of the so-called “Friends of BRICS”, which involved the foreign ministers of 12 countries from the Global South that expressed a desire to join the group (Argentina, Bangladesh, Venezuela, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Comoros, Cuba, UAE, Saudi Arabia).
The meeting discussed the prospects for the creation of a single BRICS currency, the use of local currencies in trade, energy security issues, the strengthening of arms control and the negative impact of sanctions on the world economy. Lavrov was unanimously applauded for his response to the US ambassador to South Africa not to interfere in foreign affairs…
The world is being rebuilt before our eyes, and it is important not only to understand where the new iron curtain will pass, but also to do everything possible so that it does not tear away from us that part of the world that is tired of being aligned by Washington. The new “redistribution” affects the global interests of the West, and this once again reminds us that Russia must be vigilant, strengthening its ties with a new range of partners outside the collective West.
Translation: ES
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