WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
DIANNA GAMES: Africa needs urgently to ditch the ego politics
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa cut a fine figure among the handful of African leaders at the big bash in Durban last week. In his closing address to hundreds of local and international delegates, Ramaphosa said Africa urgently needed a new style of leadership characterised by respect and dignity. The scourges of wastage, mismanagement and corruption should be swept away if the continent was to "transform from the continent of potential to the continent of prosperity", he added. Fine words from a man under significant political pressure from his "boss", the untransformed Jacob Zuma, who daily becomes more and more the type of Big Man Africans keep hoping they are starting to see the back of. The issue of leadership was a central theme throughout the World Economic Forum on Africa 2017, the annual gathering of international and local business people, political figures, nongovernmental organisations and others. Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe, old, frail and rambling, made a surpr...
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