From the Cape to Cairo – it’s Ramaphosa’s turn
your Hinterland is there,” reads the inscription under a statue of the arch-colonialist Cecil John Rhodes, still – despite the ferocious Rhodes Must Fall agitation – standing, with his left arm raised, facing north, in the Company Gardens in Cape Town.
It’s a touch ironic but that could almost be President Cyril Ramaphosa standing there. And saying that. He is the champion of the African Union (AU)-Nepad North-South Road, Rail and Related Infrastructure Corridor which aims to connect the “Cape to Cairo”. That was also the great dream of
