SA-Belgium Relations | Monarch on first SA state tour
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- President Cyril Ramaphosa is hosting the Belgian royal couple in Pretoria. King Philippe and Queen Mathilde are on their first state visit to the country. Belgium is an important trading partner for South Africa. Slindelo Masikane speaks to #eNCA Courtesy #DStv403
Salute to South Africa 🇿🇦 from the Belgians 🇧🇪
He must visit the DRC and make amends for past wrongs!
Which people? I am 3rd generation Belgian I have been denied nationality yet order through other provider of my father and my grandfather F Belgium
This embarrassing watching our people hosting these Colonizer's in this way, looking at our elders doing that European march and just looking at their body language makes me wanna cry...
Belgium has never been a colonizer over south africa. The king is a sitting head of state. regardless it is customary for economic partners to receive each others head of state from time to time to strengthen business between countries to promote business which intern promotes employment. The King of britain which was a colonising country over South africa, has just recently received President of SA with all state and pomp and ceremony. Many british people had to put in the effort from their side to host South africas president. So please grow up. When will you people stop your whining and grow up
@@brettlinn3063 dude, we can't forget Congo and how it was raped, subjugated, our people being Crucified (And you saying we must grow up😲🤬) Nah my guy, just because Congo is in the Central side of Africa doesn't mean I should just close my eyes when a coloniser comes through, even if French where to come with their fake smiles, they will receive the same
Africa shouldn’t forget past injustices because they still have present effects but relationships can evolve over time too. Look at Japan and US relations post WW2. Don’t think we must be paralysed by the past, only aware. Sustainable relationships that bring good jobs to SA should be celebrated. The real indignity now is the youth of this country sitting without employment or opportunities.
@@Xrepo822 There are former colonies of Britain that have emerged as successful democracies and financial powers such as Singapore which was a colony less than 60 years ago. Which makes me wonder why zimbabwe and Mozambique and Congo who have been free for almost 50 years haven't achieved 30 percent of what Singapore has which was also a former colony. I don't buy the excuse anymore that the past is the reason why many people of color are still poor in this country. The poverty is due to massive Looting by the state run by a party voted into power by a large majority of black people. The fact that most of them haven't realized that a democracy has nothing to do with loyalty but has everything to do with serving the people shows it is a mindset that African people need to break in themselves. As a result the easy way out is to blame the former colonizers. There is more than enough land and money in the hands of the ANC government to lift its own people out of poverty by building enterprise and business and providing land. Following the anglo boer war in 1902, the afrikaner was extremely poor in this country. How the state started to handle this after afrikaners started to come to power is by creating more state enterprises and business thus creating more jobs thus growing also private business indirectly as the middle class started to grow. Are you aware that every state enterprises in the hands of the anc today were inherited from the former white government and that the anc has done nothing to grow these enterprises but hollow them out. And they haven't created more state enterprises that can create more jobs. I don't accept the complacent complaint of black people today, they have no excuse under a open market south africa that is no longer subject to international sanctions.
@@brettlinn3063I believe there are still effects from colonialism but what I’m largely saying is similar to you. Our country can’t be paralysed by the past and people have to accept a country’s relationships change and things move on. I think SA now probably shares more principles with Europe than America or Russia or China. I’m personally supportive of strong relations with the EU and certain European countries in particular.