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Vol. 45 No 2 (2020): Afrique et développement

4 - ‘The State of the Continent is Good’: African ‘Foreigners’ and Foreign Direct Investment, Seen from Subimperial South Africa

https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v45i2.643
Patrick Bond
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6657-7898

Corresponding Author(s) : Patrick Bond

pbond@mail.ngo.za

Afrique et développement, Vol. 45 No 2 (2020): Afrique et développement

Résumé

Le perpétuel espoir des élites africaines d’une croissance portée par les exportations et fondée sur les produits miniers continue de souffrir des dures réalités économiques, politiques et aujourd’hui, climatiques et de santé publique. Dans ces contradictions, le confinement économique dû au COVID-19 a amplifié deux des aspects les plus difficiles des relations régionales et interethniques de l'Afrique du Sud : le désespoir accru de la classe ouvrière, les économies des townships ayant le plus pâti de la pandémie, et l'incapacité d'envoyer des fonds chez eux. De nouvelles dimensions ont émergé en 2020, par exemple, le trolling dans les médias sociaux, la traduction en lois de préjugés de ministres du gouvernement, et les manifestations devant les ambassades de pays africains à Pretoria, étaient, bien avant la COVID-19, des indications de l’exacerbation de l'hostilité locale envers les populations du continent, ce, au moment où Cyril Ramaphosa assumait la présidence de l'Union africaine. Les poussées xénophobes régulièrement observées à Johannesburg suggèrent que ce creuset d’entrepreneurs africains souffre de certaines des contradictions politico-économiques les plus extrêmes du continent. Cependant, contre le néolibéralisme pyramidal, il existe encore des antidotes qui émanent de la Banque africaine de développement et du Forum économique mondial-Afrique, dont certains sont potentiellement progressistes ; parmi eux, les manifestations sans précédent contre l’autoritarisme tenues dans au moins 18 pays. Mais la première étape consiste à reconnaître à quel point la rhétorique officielle, même celle d’élites africaines, s'écarte de la réalité.

Mots-clés

croissance portée par les exportations, matières premières minières COVID-19 xénophobie investissements directs étrangers Banque africaine de développement Forum économique mondial
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Bond, P. 2020. 4 - ‘The State of the Continent is Good’: African ‘Foreigners’ and Foreign Direct Investment, Seen from Subimperial South Africa. Afrique et développement. 45, 2 (avr. 2020). DOI:https://doi.org/10.57054/ad.v45i2.643.
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Professor, University of the Western Cape School of Government, Cape Town.
Email: pbond@mail.ngo.za

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