"You Accessed Power to Put Money in Your Pocket & Are Stealing Public Resources!" Mbeki to NDZ 2014

At a "Leadership for the Africa we Want" event in Kigali, Rwanda way back in 2014, Thabo Mbeki looked directly at Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (NDZ) and said "You have accessed power in order to put money in your pocket. You Are Stealing Public Resources".

The issues being discussed were:
1. How can we nurture visionary African leadership to address any leadership deficit and engender trust in policies?
2. Does Africa need effective institutions more than it needs strong leaders?
Thabo however broke ranks and raised the ugly truth about corruption. A year later he once again brought up the uncomfortable topic, claiming there is no Ruling Party in Africa That Does not Have Corruption! Thabo also raised his pet topic, the International Criminal Court (ICC) and Africa's membership thereof.

The globalist World Economic Forum (WEF) report for 2014 identified two critical leadership problems in Africa -- the first is that there is a leadership deficit, and the second is that there is a lack of trust in policies and programmes pursued by leaders.
Good leadership is crucial for enabling Africa to exploit the window of opportunity that has opened up in the past decade, notably its natural resource boom. However, experience indicates that leaders that are resourceful and accountable may be more important "initial conditions" for the development and transformation of their countries than resource abundance per se.
Where leadership was inadequate or unaccountable, the pace of industrialization and innovation stagnated, and in some cases was reversed, irrespective of the size of the resource base.

In the absence of good leadership, Africa will not be able to reach its global potential. That leadership should be able to produce domestic consensus or coalitions that ensure that sufficient resources and political attention are key to the goal of economic transformation. Some prerequisite elements are a capable state; government and private sector collaboration; a supportive environment for competitiveness; and continuous leveraging and development of the knowledge base.

Present were Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya, Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma, then Chairperson, of African Union Commission, Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki, former SA President and Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria.