Locked down in South Africa
By Ambassador Charles Stith
Footprint Press is pleased to announce the publication of A View from the Other Side: Locked down in South Africa by Ambassador Charles Stith. This is an important and influential commentary on the Corona Virus pandemic and how it has been handled in South Africa and the United States.
In it, Ambassador Stith raises and answers some of the most critical questions relating to Africa’s recovery from COVID-19.
Copycat responses to the pandemic
As the corona-surge in Africa became the focus of attention, OXFAM in a report, The Hunger Virus, connected the dots between the lockdown to hunger to deaths.
Stith issued this warning at Level 5 of South Africa’s lockdown. This book provides the back story and the front story about what Africa’s recovery requires.
In its report, Africa’s Pulse: Assessing the Economic Impact of COVID-19 in Africa, the World Bank cautioned Africa against ‘copycat responses’ to the corona-crisis, echoing a warning by Stith in the early days of the outbreak taking hold.
This book is a must read as the debate unfolds about where Africa goes from here in its recovery from the corona-crisis.
Here is a link to a television interview with Ambassador Charles Stith on 8th September 2020 on the SABC in a discussion on the days leading up to the American elections.
About the author
Ambassador Charles R. Stith is the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Republic of Tanzania and the founder and chairman of the African Presidential Leadership Centre in South Africa.
Appointed by President Clinton, he served as U.S. Ambassador from 1998 to 2001, beginning his term just one month after the August 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam. Because of his able and steady leadership, the embassy emerged from this traumatic period and set a new standard by promoting U.S. trade and investment in Africa.
Stith worked with the local government to enable Tanzania to become the first Sub-Saharan African country to reach the decision point for debt relief under the enhanced Heavily-Indebted Poor Countries Initiative (HIPC).
Stith is currently the executive chairman of The Pula Group, a family of companies focused on high value investment opportunities in Africa.
- PUBLISHER | Footprint Press |
- ISBN | 978-1-990972-02-7 |
- Recommended Retail Price | R250.00 |
- Classification | Viewpoint |
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