Africa has found Beijing’s favour

Madam,

$frica has found favour in the eyes of %eijing such that &hinese aid and business ventures in $frica have attracted some attention from the :est. I was once in a room with an $merican woman who said what &hina was doing to $frica was wrong. 6he was not speaking to me. I was eavesdropping a little bit, I guess.

The thought that occurred to me as those words reverberated in my ear canal was, ³+ow is it any different from what the :est is doing to $frica"´ 0aybe &hina is just playing the game. 0aybe &hina is playing the game so well that they are threatening the :est¶s prospects in $frica being $frica¶s largest trading partner and all. $las, I do not speak for &hina.

6ome $frican government authorities are concerned about the menace of falling into a &hinese debt-trap. $frica is slowly being tied to the yoke of &hinese debt. There is little in the way of transparency and accountability when it comes to acquiring &hinese loans.

exorbitant. MATHOKOZA MASEKO

If cutting the taxes is possible, government please do so.

TENKHO DUBE

COLLECT CAR LICENCE DISC FROM POST OFFICE NEAR YOU

Thank you (3T& for launching the motor vehicle licence discs collection. IRVIN MOTSA

:hat a relief, the queues we were experiencing at the revenue offices were frustrating.

ZANELE MABUNDZA

Thumbs up for the issue of license discs it¶s convenient. 3ost offices 'ebt is continuing to pile on and on, unabated, and the repercussions will be dreadful j la +ambantota.

$ngola was at the tippy top of every list that I saw when I was conducting the research that informs this letter.

INDEBTEDNESS

$ngola¶s indebtedness to &hina was estimated above 86 2 billion. $frica¶s second largest oil producer is using most of its oil to repay &hina. &hinese companies have built entire cities in $ngola using $ngolan oil credit-lines with &hina. 0ost notably, the cities of .ilamba, &acuaco, &apari, =ango and .m were all built and financed by the &hinese and $ngolan oil is the collateral servicing the loans. +ere¶s the kicker, older reports claim that these cities are not even occupied. They are µghost towns¶. 2ther reports state that people are standing in long queues to occupy apartment complexes there. To know for sure, let this be the year we travel to $ngola for a holiday.

M L

must come to the party because kemanje.

SIBUSISO JELE

sekuyasentjetwa

The post offices must adapt quickly to this convenient service delivery. THEMBINKHOSI THWALA

:hat a relief, the queues at the revenue offices were a huge discouragement. SIMON DLAMINI

UNESWA STUDENT HANGS HIMSELF

I don¶t blame the 81(6:$ student as suicide is never an easy decision because it comes when enough is enough. EMPERAH GOLDGUST

0ay his soul rest in peace but suicide

It s easy, take the three per cent and demand a salary review afterwards. %y so doing, you would have beaten them in their own game.

MFANASBILI PHILEMON MP NXUMALO

&ommodities will go up if we continue burning structures in the country.

TEMANHLANE MASUKU

:hether they approve the 2 . per cent bread hike or not nothing will change instead things are going to get worse because government doesn¶t

250 JOBS IN AFRICAN ALLIANCE’S 1ST CLASS SHOPPING MALL

$frican $lliance ita kahle, the problem lies with the low salaries of this country.

BEST NENE

Thank you $frican $lliance, half a loaf is better than nothing. 3lease hire more people.

CEBILE DLAMINI

:hy are ema6wati being exploited we all know the 2 people are cheap labour.

MFIHLAKALO BRIGHTWELL DLAMINI