Why is East Africa's Economy Growing Faster than Southern Africa? 

The south really needs to take note and learn from their examples.

​@kontuthu take not by not relying on foreign aid, which ranks no.3 and imf loans. Kanye is broke with foreign debts 😂😂.

@@whitewitch2511 it's still doing better than those not broke.

@@1devoch keep fooling yourself

@@whitewitch2511 keep hating.

You guys are winning 💪🏿 love the developments happening there.

Only 17% of Kenyans old enough to work have a formal job, vs an average of 70% in the SACU.

Borderless Africa is on the horizon. It's the only way to capitalize on the Africa free trade area.

Only EAC cou tries minus DRC have the starsintent of ceding rheir nationhood sovereignty andrepu lics to merge into a new entity. South Afrika does not have that same intent. So East is free to remove their borders. They will still respect the borders of others who. Hoose to maintain them...

Nop

SADC is the most developed, powerful, stable and financially superior region on the continent followed by North Africa then East Africa, so no you are wrong on that, I mean some of the East African region members would rather have duplicate sittings in both EA and Southern Africa, that shows that they don’t even fully trust their EAn region enough to commit to being a full member of it

This does seem to be the case as China is still waiting on a return on their investments. It's been a double edged sword since most countries in Africa rely on external funding to build their economies.

@@kontuthu It's not a matter of opinion. China's loans went from $20-billion in 2015 to less than $1-billion in 2022.

Thanks for watching. I'm very scared for the southern regions particularly Zimbabwe as we depend so much on imports from South Africa. We are too behind. I don't know how Namibia and Botswana have just subtly did their own things quietly. Maybe an idea for another video haha.

@@kontuthuno even Botswana and Namibia heavily, heavily depend on South Africa, they even have a saying that, “when South Africa sneezes we catch a cold “😂 so ya

Don't be surprised when They (East) ranks 1 by Gdp before 2030 and mark this.

East Africa is a long way from overtaking South Africa alone.

What a diatribe of racist nonsense written here.

Poor, but your country ranks no. 3 When it comes to foreign aid, black South Africans earn more than black Africans. Inequality is all over the world,singling out South africa seems nuts.

@@whitewitch2511 Foreign aid where....we neither receive foreign aid nor can afford to give it. African peoples own their economy. Black South Africans are practically 2nd Class citizens. In real price parity terns Back South Africans (Whites not included) do not out earn other African countries

Yes, S.A and Namibia have the best infrastructure, but again do you realise that South Africa's infrastructure is getting wasted and vandalised gradually each passing day? Some industries have collapsed. Roads are no longer being well maintained unless it's in certain provinces like W.C. The state of that infrastructure is becoming quickly as dilapidated as the country's downward spiral economically. While these E.A countries are growing, S.A is collapsing.

It's being vandalized each passing day, and you can't compare the South Africa of today, 2024, with that of 2020. The S.A government isn't doing it any favour, too. The thing is, South Africa's so-called world-class infrastructure isn't world-class anymore. Ask those who've been around for over 50 years, and they'll tell you.

And their currency is useless in east africa 😂😂

@@Simphiweful it's not a matter of name-calling. It's a simple economic discourse.

@@jilokizito1705no the problem with South African infrastructure is that we tend to rather build something new than to take care of something old, so the matter of SA infrastructure being dilapidated isn’t because infrastructure in general is falling, but it’s just that in some areas it has, but none the less more infrastructure is being built much more, much faster than the old dies out, so the matter of the fact isn’t that SAs infrastructure is getting less it’s just that we are getting more while at the same time neglecting the old

Uyayazi na imap yaseAfrica?

Zimbabwe, botswana, eswatini, lesotho, and South africa are southern African countries. Namibia is west, and Mozambique is east .Zimbabwe (bulawayo) we share cultures and languages ,bulawayo has SeTswana, sesotho,isixhosa, isindebele, venda, and San speaking people. shona people of zimbabwe are from West, East, or Central africa .wena msunu.

Lol

@@siyabulelamlungwana8181 OK unditukelani kengoku mnqundu

​@@siyabulelamlungwana8181this is the result of not attending geography lessons,you know voekel

Catch up to what? Loadshedding and boers taking all our land?

Apart from South Africa, which Southern African countries will East African countries catch up with?

@@timothymukhooli5417 infrastructure wise Zimbabwe is still ahead of Kenya chief. Our economy is down now but what I see in Kenya doesn't exist in Zimbabwe at all. Let's take the slum of Kibera for example. There is not a single slum in Zimbabwe. I'm talking abiut like 100 people living in a slum. Zero. Ask any Zimbabwean you know If you don't believe me I can send you an article of a United Nations worker who said they felt scared when posted to Zim as they had heard horror stories. They've worked all over Africa. After her stint she write an article in the UK press that Zim is still the second most country after SA. You don't have to believe me. I've watched that Ebaide girl from Nigeria ride a bike through Kenya. Outside Nairobi the small towns in Kenya look very backward to even what we call villages in Zim Ask any Kenyan who has been to Zim You ask what other country, Botswana. Small population but look at small towns like Palapye and compare how it looks compare to Ebaide where she rides in Kenya. How about gdp per capita. After all people don't eat infrastructure. Botswana trounces Kenya. Corruption. Botswana police do not ask or take bribes Nobody rides motorbike as taxi in Southern Africa. Ebem the poorest man would be offended lol Do you want me to carry on🤣 Look at Namibia and compare to Kenya I've been to Swaziland tale a look at that. I stayed in Lobamba with my wife for anniversary abs we met many German tourists who were retired and they have been all of africa and were sure they prefer Swaziland.

​@@timothymukhooli5417Namibia has the best roads in Africa for a reason!?

Rwanda 🇷🇼

@@evelynemugeni2369 in rwanda they only show you Kigali but the rural side is still miles behind Kenya and Tanzania

British Pound is 'heavier' than the US Dollar or the Yen, but is the British economy bigger or stronger than the two??? It is this level of basic ignorance that is hurting Southern Africa, just chanting Zuma and Malema songs all day instead of filling up your brains with basic knowledge.

Don't argue before you make research my friend that the things our south african people were they fails all over social media platforms

@@Simphiweful A weak currency may help a country's exports gain market share when its goods are less expensive compared to goods priced in stronger currencies. The increase in sales may boost economic growth and jobs while increasing profits for companies that are conducting business in foreign markets.

@@Simphiweful Keep them safe 🙏🏼. East African people and African people are industrious. You need them more than they need you.

Even in Kenya We have people from Namibia, S.Africa, Zimbabwe applying for citizenship 😂, they want to live here forever

Easier. Just travel to the regions and you'll see. You're talking Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, etc, vs. South Africa, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Eswatini, Namibia, and Botswana. S.A is the giant but what about the life of Blacks? Only Namibia and Botswana make sense down here.

@@jilokizito1705 Well I am a Namibian and probably agreeing with you on this one.I have visited Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia among others few years back.I was then working in South Sudan when I got a chance to visit those countries. I don't like comparing countries bcs each country is unique. However I can say I saw a huge difference as many aspects of life are concerned when I was there.

@@josephnakale7343 Yes, it's Namibia and then Botswana that are doing great. When hell breaks lose in S.A. Namibia will have to contain most of the people from S.A, Eswatini, Lesotho, and Zim. It's only Nambia that's doing very well.

@@jilokizito1705 Yes many of us are worrying at the moment, and watching the situation with there with keen interest, hoping everything will be fine.

@@josephnakale7343 I doubt it will before it breaks down. With this much poverty, crime, corruption and unemployment, it's coming.

Yes, but they're on a downward spiral.

why do you feel all the fronts East and South cannot both rise together? Do you think that it is a competition to beat the other, this is not sport?

But South Africa grew its GDP by over 100% is just 20 years, so you have no excuse for your countries government to not have its proper priorities in check

@@InamMaqondose-ny8zf corruption happened.

80 years ? Really? Well my point is southern african countries were developed by former colonisers but east africans are developing their own countries from scratch unlike South africa when it gained independence it had everything especially esp infrastructure.

WHICH SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRY ARE YOU FROM

You never mentioned population, which should have come on top.

We don't speak this language in Southern Africa 😊

@@fud338 Yes it's true.Untravelled Southern Africans don't speak Swahili. They speak either only Chewa,Tswana,Zulu,Xhlosa,Shona or Ndebele. But l tell you one great thing in life is social intelligence. Know other cultures and languages in your life and make traveling in your work or business memorable.There's life beyond the horizon across SADC and East Africa. Even far in the NORDIC countries beyond in the Scandinavia, there's life in Tampere and Kajani.

@@fud338 Yes it's true.Untravelled Southern Africans don't speak Swahili. They speak either only Chewa,Tswana,Zulu,Xhlosa,Shona or Ndebele. But l tell you one great thing in life is social intelligence. Know other cultures and languages in your life and make traveling in your work or business memorable.There's life beyond the horizon across SADC and East Africa. Even far in the NORDIC countries beyond in the Scandinavia, there's life in Tampere and Kajani.

were you herding zebras when everyone else was going to school to learn a thing or two about currencies...Japanese Yen is definitely 'weaker' than the Pula, but Japanese economic might is a million times that of your nation... Kenya is richer than your country too, it is not in the currency exchange rates pugaaa

Hahahaha. The comparisons made are based on percentage growth of the east compared to the south. Unfortunately places like Zimbabwe hurt the averages when making the comparisons. Also lenders seem more invested in pouring money in the east since their output as a region is growing fast.

@@Simphiweful You got it wrong

Tunisia Dinar is strongest currency in African continent yet many African countries are richer than Tunisia

Who taught you economics?