Africa must recognize the power of a united Africa: Zingiswa Losi – SABC News

Africa has the power to unite and apply African solutions to African problems. This is according to Zingiswa Losi, president of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Cosatu).

Speaking to SABC News,th At the Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labor, Losi said he urged Africa to recognize the strength of unity.

“Africa has always been seen as a continent that doesn’t seem to be moving forward, but agrees on what the world should look like. And sometimes you realize that we don’t seem to be moving forward in solving our own problems because we have lost our own identity as who we are as African people. We seem to think that South Africa is independent, the rest of Africa and the whole continent work differently, and as a result, we have no African solution to Africa’s problems, ”he says.

“Africa needs to recognize the power of unification,” said Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi, who said Africa should stop waiting for Europe to prescribe solutions to Africa’s problems. #End ChildLabour #SABCNews pic.twitter.com/nqhoH94wub

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Losi spoke after a high-level panel discussion aimed at exploring the general situation of child labor in the context of the shortcomings of decent work and youth employment, identifying the most pressing challenges to be addressed globally and setting priorities for children. global community for the next three years, until 2025.

In the panel Thula Nxesi Minister for Employment and Labor of South Africa, President of the Senate, Chairman of the National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings and Forced Labor of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Tanzila Narbayeva, European Commissioner for International Partnerships, Jutta Urpilainen, Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyhi -Cola Company President and CEO James Quincey, President of the Association 8.7, Representative of the French Government on the Governing Body of the ILO, Anousheh Karvar.

A high-level panel discussion to explore the overall situation of child labor in the context of the gaps in decent work and youth employment, and to set ongoing priorities for the global community for the next three years, by 2025. #SABCNews #End ChildLabour pic.twitter.com/ujz5tnj9rF

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According to Losi, it is sad that while Africa is poor and the worst affected by global problems due to child labor, Europe’s economies are built on the “backbone of the African people”.

“(Africans) have been used as slaves in the past. They continue to migrate because of the wars in Africa to go to Europe. They will be welcomed. We do not see xenophobia in Europe because they understand the value of African men and women in building their own economy, including caring for their children and running households, but in Africa we think differently. We don’t see the value of one of Africa migrating to the next region, and until we recognize the importance of uniting and how we can shape and change Africans, we will never be able to solve our own problems. ”

“I blame Africa,” said Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, who says Africa has resources and minerals that don’t work for the African people, and until Africa recovers those resources, it has to fight # graduation work maybe it can never be won. #SABCNews pic.twitter.com/gnFAtM8rEL

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Africa has the largest number of child workers, with the ILO estimating that 72.1 million African children are employed in child labor, while Saulos Klaus Chilima, the vice-president of the Republic of Malawi, estimates that two million children work in child labor in Malawi.

According to Urpilainen, child labor should be put back on the political agenda and should never be limited to forums such as the Durban conference.

“It’s a complex problem with a number of triggers. But there are solutions and we are committed to finding those solutions… We need to put child labor back on the political agenda. ”

Ryder urged countries to take on their own problems.

“We know what works. In a big way, yes, but the people who know the specifics are at the national level. ”

The conference will continue at the Durban International Convention Center, where delegates fRoma around the world have gathered to share best practices and to accelerate the extermination of children. labor as well assessing progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for children labor.