SA/Nigeria tensions addressed

Former SA International Relations Minister Naledi Pandor yesterday said: ‘I hope we'll get to a point where there is a positive relationship between ourselves and Nigeria.’ Addressing ongoing tensions between the two nations, she said ‘at the government level there is, at the people-to-people, I think we haven't fully addressed it’. EWN reports that she reflected on the recent saga involving former Miss SA beauty pageant contestant Chidimma Adetshina, who dropped out and went on to win the Miss Universe Nigeria pageant, saying’ if SA was doing as well as it should, and if Nigeria was doing as well as it should, Africa will be in a very different space’. ‘It shouldn't be that SA becomes the key magnet for economic opportunity on the continent because other leaders are not attending to the homework that they should,' she added.