The Durban summit, attended by big Western businesses and officials of governments backing NEPAD, hopes to draw up concrete economic plans in sectors such as energy, education and health, especially in the fight against AIDS, which can be bankrolled by the West by the end of the year.
The NEPAD projects will be sold to Western nations at the summit of the Group of Eight industrialised nations in Canada in two weeks’ time.
Khumalo again: "We are not going to Canada with a begging bowl, let this be clear. We see NEPAD as a solid partnership between Africa and the international community which is beneficial to both sides.
"We have identified good political and economic governance and peer review as some of the conditions for the partnership and our hope is that these (Western) countries will support us to have implementable projects by the end of the year."
But analysts warn that whatever financial backing NEPAD might get may not go far in addressing Africa’s deep-seated and myriad problems if there is no political will to end bad governance, which is blamed for crises such as those in Zimbabwe, as well as a resolve to tackle resurgent wars and conflicts which still blight much of the continent.
The NEPAD projects will be sold to Western nations at the summit of the Group of Eight industrialised nations in Canada in two weeks’ time.
Khumalo again: "We are not going to Canada with a begging bowl, let this be clear. We see NEPAD as a solid partnership between Africa and the international community which is beneficial to both sides.
"We have identified good political and economic governance and peer review as some of the conditions for the partnership and our hope is that these (Western) countries will support us to have implementable projects by the end of the year."
But analysts warn that whatever financial backing NEPAD might get may not go far in addressing Africa’s deep-seated and myriad problems if there is no political will to end bad governance, which is blamed for crises such as those in Zimbabwe, as well as a resolve to tackle resurgent wars and conflicts which still blight much of the continent.