America restores African relationship on ‘mutually beneficial partnerships’

Dr. Dirk Hermann. (Photo: Facebook)

Nick Checker, the US’s senior official at the US State Department’s Bureau of African Affairs, says the US is “restoring its relationship with Africa on the basis of mutually beneficial partnerships rather than aid, dependence and the spread of divisive ideology”.

Dr. Dirk Hermann, CEO of Solidarity, says that Checker’s policy stance is precisely a confirmation of African countries’ sovereignty. America’s Bureau of African Affairs shared the position on X on Friday. In response, Hermann describes the relationship between the USA and the continent as follows: “A relationship away from dependence and aid, towards mutually beneficial partnerships. It is a relationship of self-respect.”

Hermann says South Africa must embrace this as the way to walk a future path with the USA, rather than a path of enmity.

He believes that the ANC must free itself from “a victim mentality and enter into a mutually beneficial partnership with self-confidence”.

Hermann says the march in the streets does exactly the opposite. It is a showcase of victimhood and ideological blindness. “Solidarity will do everything possible to establish the new relationship with the USA, not in dependence, but with self-confidence, to the benefit of both countries”.