Brian Mhlanga | Senior Lecturer | Milpark Business School | Leadership Development Partitioner | DEI Facilitator | Omanga Consulting | mail me |
The need for us to work together with other nations in crucial, but how can we focus on building international relations when our own country is falling apart? Shouldn’t leaders fix their problems first, before showing off a ‘world class city’, that doesn’t exist.
The cost alone for the G20 summit is projected to us approximately R691 million to R700 million. This budget includes about R194 million for the Leader’s Summit and R497 million for the Sherpa Track meetings. The host country, South Africa, will bear these costs as part of hosting the summit, which involves significant expenditures for security, facilities, and logistics for the heads of state and their delegations.
National struggles vs global spectacle
Yet, South Africans are struggling, basic human rights are being neglected, how can spending that much money, on one event be justifiable, when taps are dry, when electricity is treated like a luxury in most parts of the country, when youth is unemployed, and public hospitals don’t have basic facilities.
Global unity isn’t top of mind, when so many South Africans don’t have enough money to buy…
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