FOCAC: China pledges $60 billion in aid to develop Africa
Speaking after Chinese President Xi Jinping had pledged to spend a total of US$60 billion in aid and development in Africa, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe were at pains to distinguish this relationship as different from those with its colonial masters of the past.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) in Johannesburg, Mugabe the chair of the African Union went so far as to say that China, a country that he said was once described as poor, was “doing what we expected those who colonised us yesterday to do