IN AN interview conducted during the Group of 20 (G-20) summit with China’s CCTV News, President Jacob Zuma gives what many have called his most cringe-worthy interview to date. Zuma, who was in Hangzhou with a number of South African delegates, including Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, was given the opportunity to explain how SA — the only African country in the G-20 group — would represent the rest of the continent and what Africa’s role in the G-20 was. But in the interview with leading Chinese journalist Tian Wei, he gave vague answers and did not respond to the questions at hand. Asked by Wei what the positive and negative connotations of industrialisation in Africa had been, Zuma said there had been only positives. "So what do you think is the approach that African countries, including yours, should adopt in order to have industrialisation," Wei asked, to which the president responded: "Well, there are many things that we need to do. The question of industrialisation in our o...
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