south africa: Protesters at WEF meeting slam Nepad as 'recolonisation of Africa'

The New Plan For Africa's Development (Nepad) is little more than recolonisation of Africa and is just an extension of Gear, protesters at a meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Durban said on Wednesday. "The name Nepad is a myth - there is nothing new about it. It is just Gear for Africa and, just as Gear resulted in the loss of one million jobs in SA, so too will Nepad further plunge Africa into poverty," said Ashwin Desai of the Concerned Citizens' Group.