Prof. Netswera, Government Dean of the College of Administration Sciences at Durban College of Expertise, has emphasised the need for Africa to cultivate the right leadership to harness its huge potential.
Talking on the third version of the Expertise, Enterprise, and Society Seminar Sequence (TEBUSS) on twenty sixth March 2025 on the Florence Onny Auditorium, Ghana Communication Expertise College (GCTU), he highlighted management as the important thing to Africa’s self-sufficiency.
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“Our continent has the flexibility and potential to be self-sustaining. We should practice the correct management to unlock this potential,” he acknowledged.
Prof. Netswera underscored the importance of the African Continental Free Commerce Settlement (AfCFTA), describing it as a significant step in the direction of financial unity. Nevertheless, he cautioned that insurance policies alone had been inadequate with out concrete implementation.
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“We have to guarantee that there’s free financial commerce, and I believe we now have made a begin. The passing of the free African commerce settlement is an important milestone. Nevertheless, it should be adopted by motion, as a result of a chunk of paper means little or no if there isn’t any motion thereafter.”
He additional harassed the necessity for seamless trade across African nations.
“Transferring and transport items between South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Ghana ought to turn into the best factor to do on this continent.”
The professor additionally highlighted the necessity to simplify journey inside Africa, citing difficulties in securing direct flights between African international locations.
“I do recall a number of years in the past coming to Cameroon, and we couldn’t get a direct flight. You needed to fly to France and are available down. Travelling to Morocco, you needed to fly to Paris and are available down once more.
“As Africans, there are a lot of amongst us with sufficient billions to purchase aeroplanes to constitution us by this continent. That needs to be carried out to make sure that face-to-face interplay amongst Africans is facilitated.”
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Prof. Netswera lamented Africa’s persistent meals safety challenges, regardless of possessing 60% of the world’s arable land.
“We want management that may remodel our potential into actuality. At the moment, Africa produces what it doesn’t eat and eats what it doesn’t produce.”
Prof. Emmanuel Afoakwa, Vice-Chancellor of GCTU, known as for stronger collaboration between governments, academia, and business.
“In our quickly altering world, isolation is not going to suffice,” he mentioned, urging the adoption of expertise to handle urgent points equivalent to starvation, poverty, and healthcare disparities.
He emphasised that “by innovation and ICT, we are able to create sustainable job alternatives, empower communities, and stimulate financial progress that’s each inclusive and transformative.”
The TEBUSS occasion continues to function a platform for dialogue on leveraging expertise and management to drive Africa’s growth.
