SA Urged to Reconsider Loan to Swaziland

Africa Contact, the Danish former anti-apartheid movement, has sent a letter to President Jacob Zuma, asking him to reconsider South Africa’s loan to Swaziland.

The organisation argues that, “In the past, we at Africa Contact spent a lot of time and energy on trying to pressurise European banks into not lending money to apartheid SA - in part because the African National Congress, and you personally, called upon us to do that.”

The organisation says it sees the government’s loan to Swaziland as a de facto support of the regime in power today and as an indication that it does not want to support the democratic forces in that country.

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