President Jacob Zuma has urged fellow heads of state from southern Africa not to "sell the female cow that produces milk" and buy back the milk later, but rather keep it. "You can sell the other cow," he told applauding leaders attending the opening of the Southern African Development summit on Saturday.
Zuma said this in the context of Africans benefiting from Africa's own resources. "I don't think if we do so, we would be becoming difficult. We would just be normal on a normal situation. It is absolutely important, it can happen," he said.
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