Nelson Kgwete’s letter refers (Olivier distorts policy, January 17). I have a similar complaint about his comments: cherry-picking and distorting my article for points of criticism, ignoring the main thrust of my argument. My advice to Kgwete would be to develop a more holistic and fundamental picture of SA’s foreign policy. Trying to label me, he kicks off by falsely accusing me of having disdain for SA’s strong bonds of solidarity with the rest of the developing word. This is nonsense. Had he read my article more thoroughly, he would have seen that my point was just the opposite: that an Afrocentric foreign policy and solidarity with multilateral efforts to bring more equity and justice in the global financial system are the right way forward. But that this should not be done in a zero-sum fashion, as the government is wont to do. His nitpicking as to who is our biggest trading partner is similarly uninformed. Of course it is the European Union (EU), operating as a single market e...
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