/NEWS ITEM: Finance ministers from South Africa, Nigeria and Angola,
respectively Pravin Gordhan, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Carlos Alberto
Lopes will hold a press conference at 08:30 before they have a meeting.
They will most likely announce their agreement on the candidacy of
Okonjo-Iweala for the top post at the World Bank, which will become
vacant from 1 July./
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Down with Jeff Sachs! All power to Nguzi Okonjo-Iweala. On January 1
this year, she succeeded with coalition-building where no one else on
the Nigerian opposition ever has, generating lefty and centrist unity
(until labour finally split), mass credibility for the anti-neolib
cause, an analytically easy line of power from Washington to Abuja,
unprecedented numbers in the streets in a near-revo general strike over
the petrol price hike, and the internationalisation of the Occupy brand
into Africa.
Ok ok ok, I know you'll rebut that Larry Summers would accomplish all of
that and more. But surely since he's not going to get the job, don't you
think it would be marvelous to wish she does, and then for the global
left to mimic our Nigerian friends, and respond to a successful Ngozi
candidacy with the grace and goodwill that any soothsayer might have
done just before Nguzi took marching orders from Christine Lagarde and
raised fuel prices a few weeks ago?
So I say: give that Nigerian madam full support, and take lessons from
the Nigerian masses in insult-throwing, impromptu organising,
Occupy-isation, and general striking.
A shame Trevor Manuel is not in the mix, it would have been SO much more
fun for us down here...
http://www.iol.co.za/sundayindependent/the-myth-of-manuel-s-wizardry-1.1072429
Cheers,
Patrick
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