[NormsRevenge]

South Africa's President Thabo Mbeki waits to address the 61st General Assembly of the United Nations at U.N. headquarters in New York, September 19, 2006. (Ray Stubblebine/Reuters)

[NormsRevenge]

Mbeki himself has been accused by foreign and domestic critics of embracing market-friendly policies at home which have enabled a few blacks to accumulate vast wealth and some to enter the middle class while millions remain stuck in squalor.

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Africa is a continent rich in resources that has been squandered and the benefits thereof stolen by a few , not all of them white or foreign, coincidentally.

[Argus]

You might try inquiring how the rich and powerful got that way, Thabo.

(Hint - not by passing more UN resolutions)

[rocksblues]

Just wondering how come every time a prosperous nation is overthrown by so called reformers, within a couple of years the winners come on the world stage pleading for money?

[Semi Civil Servant]

90+ percent of current world poverty can be laid at the feet of corrupt, incompetent governments and communist theory.

Period.

[My2Cents]

Callous rich to blame for poverty

"Oh nonsense."

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This is why foreign aid should be abolished.

How much did the U.S. and "the rich" nations contribute to Africa and other 3rd world hell-holes?

Maybe if these nations adopted capitalism, instead of failed socialism, they wouldn't be poor.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

"These billions of poor people are increasingly becoming impatient because every year they hear us adopt declaration after declaration and yet nothing practical is done to assuage the hunger pains that keep them awake at night," he told the United Nations General Assembly.

Billions of Chinese and Indians also became impatient and decided to fix the problem themselves with education and capitalism. It's a proven solution that the nations of Africa would do well to use, instead of hoping for handouts from the West.

[gafusa]

No, corrupt "leaders" like you, and the aversion to productive work is possible for poverty.

[BunnySlippers]

[JustaDumbBlonde]

My family is just about UP TO HERE with being told that we are responsible for what anybody else lacks. We don't rob, steal, pilfer or pillage. If this country wasn't taking care of so many able-bodied adults that could be earning a living on their own, our taxes could be cut again and government could be a helluva lot smaller.

Now Thabo wants to saddle me with African poverty, even World poverty ... enough already!

[dasboot]

Private

property

Rule

of law

no domestic

taxation

Courts to enforce

obligation of contract

The little things...

[BIGZ]

These billions of poor people are increasingly becoming impatient because every year they hear us adopt declaration after declaration and yet nothing practical is done to assuage the hunger pains that keep them awake at night," he told the United Nations General Assembly. South Africa wanted an end to apartheid and then voted in a Communist government.

Were we better off before of after apartheid. South Africa is another African communist country that wants the world to bail them out.

Welfare is welfare it don't work.

[hardworking]

Oh goody, I've been wondering how to do this. Can you direct me to some poor suffering people so that I can become a member of the callous rich? Thank you.

[Chode]

listen stooopid... just EAT THE RICH, and you won't have that problem anymore, will you??? chickenhead.

[Wonder Warthog]

You mean "Murderous Marxist Moron Mbeki", don't you???

Ole Thabo ought to ask his fellow African "leaders" where all the multibillions in aid that have already been sunk into Africa have gone.

[MEGoody]

Callous wealthy nations are indifferent to the plight of the poor as they pursue selfish policies which enrich the few at the expense of the many, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Tuesday.

In other words, "You aren't giving me, er, us enough."