Khama defends Zuma at SADC summit

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Johannesburg - After taking a pounding from African governments over xenophobic attacks in South Africa, President Zuma was delighted when Botswana President Ian Khama came to his defence at this week’s regional summit in Harare.

Khama was apparently the unnamed leader quoted saying at the Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit on industrialisation that “South Africa can’t be looked at as the employment bureau for the region”.

South African officials said Khama’s statement, in front of all other SADC countries, was “fantastic” because it endorsed Zuma’s controversial criticism of African leaders in his Freedom Day speech, for creating adverse conditions that drove people to South Africa to seek a better life.

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