Germany recently made a bold offer to South Africa: a $9.3 billion loan to help the country shut down its coal-fired power plants and switch to green energy sources. However, this offer has sparked a strong backlash from a South African political party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK).
On September 9th, the MK party openly rejected the offer, calling it both "hypocritical" and "neo-colonial arrogance." Their main complaint? Germany, they argue, is trying to pressure South Africa into aba...