Former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, has expressed great concern regarding the decline in the quality of leadership across Africa, attributing it to interference and a lack of proactiveness.

He highlighted challenges that have diminished Africa's once vibrant voice on the global stage. "We [Africa] became a kind of democracy that people were talking about at the beginning, but something interfered with Africa, as we know.

For example, there was a coup d'état, where Western countries were actually organising the coup d'état against us.

We tried to come in thereafter once again.