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South Africa economy 'remains in hands of white males'
The Telegraph ^ | 26 June 2012 | Aislinn Laing

Posted on 07/15/2012 1:12:15 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Mr Zuma said that the African National Congress's advances since it won power in 1994 had been "primarily political". He admitted that it has been unable to so far reach its goal of "a truly prosperous, inclusive, non-racial and non-sexist society".

He said that the ANC would now be looking at increasing taxes on mining firms profiting from South Africa's rich natural resources, and a revamp of the policy to transfer land from white to black ownership.

"The time has come to do something more drastic to accelerate change, towards economic transformation and freedom," Mr Zuma said.

Mr Zuma was speaking to an estimated 3,000 delegates at the ANC's five-year National Policy Conference in Midrand, north of Johannesburg.

He pointed to advances made by the ANC since Nelson Mandela's day – including the building of 2.5 million houses for the poor, the provision of clean water to a further 6m, and electricity to 5m. The ANC has established a social benefits system, which now helps 15m people.

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1 posted on 07/15/2012 1:12:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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ANC is utterly racist socialist. Always has been. Both Mandelas are two of the biggest racist socialists ever.


2 posted on 07/15/2012 1:16:13 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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Maybe Zuma should look to Mugabe for a few ideas on how to get this done...


4 posted on 07/15/2012 1:32:13 PM PDT by Truth29
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They are waiting for Mandela to die. After that they will exterminate the white people and starve.


5 posted on 07/15/2012 1:33:57 PM PDT by Salman
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You need to look at the demographics of south africa. They have a sizable asian population and also people who are mixtures of asians-blacks, whites-blacks, whites-asians, and asians-whites-blacks. These people are not going to jump up and start killing off all the whites just because the pure african blacks want it. They know who will be next on the list once the whites are gone. They also know what will happen to jobs once the whites are gone.


6 posted on 07/15/2012 1:44:35 PM PDT by mamelukesabre
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To: MinorityRepublican
I bought a couch but I stand while watching TV.


7 posted on 07/15/2012 1:46:14 PM PDT by I see my hands (It's time to.. KICK OUT THE JAMS, MOTHER FREEPERS!)
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“South Africa economy ‘remains in hands of white males”

Oh! that’s why it is not (yet) a 4th World Banana Republic with all sides (except the Whites) having extermination on their minds.


8 posted on 07/15/2012 1:50:05 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: MinorityRepublican

The Prawns will return ...


9 posted on 07/15/2012 2:07:58 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (This Message Contains Privileged Attorney-Client Communications)
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Watch what happens in South Africa as wealth continues to be taken from whites to distribute to blacks.
Once whites start digging their heels in the country will end up like Rhodesia.

The same sort of wealth transfer movement is already well underway here in the USA. We are closely following in South Africa’s footsteps.

Once our government hits the wall of bankruptcy and can no longer borrow money to hand out they will increase the confiscation of personal wealth to fuel the wealth transfers.

We are on the brink right now.


10 posted on 07/15/2012 2:17:44 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("Jiggle the Handle for Barry!")
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South Africa economy 'remains in hands of white males'

And that is the ONLY reason why South Africa is not as big a mess as the rest of black-ruled Africa


11 posted on 07/15/2012 2:28:46 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
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"White males" White DEVILS!
12 posted on 07/15/2012 2:36:58 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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africa like the palestinians, and haiti are all lost causes. Simply a hole in which to throw money for no apparent reason.


13 posted on 07/15/2012 3:04:36 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Isn’t this the same POS that was recently caught on video singing the ANC song “kill the boer”?

Executive Outcome will be needed in SA soon enough..

Following that, they should restore Rhodesia before all of Africa starves.


14 posted on 07/15/2012 3:45:02 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks MinorityRepublican.
Mr Zuma said that the African National Congress... since it won power in 1994... has been unable to so far reach its goal of "a truly prosperous, inclusive, non-racial and non-sexist society"... would now be looking at increasing taxes on mining firms... and a revamp of the policy to transfer land from white to black ownership... [attributed credit to the ANC for ] building of 2.5 million houses for the poor, the provision of clean water to a further 6m, and electricity to 5m... a social benefits system, which now helps 15m people.
Unable to make South Africa's into a non-racial society, gosh, I wonder why? It's almost as if the term "black majority rule" was intrinsically racist, as is Zimbabwe-style land confiscation.

Over 50 million population, nearly one-third on welfare.


15 posted on 07/15/2012 4:15:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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They should chase out all the whites and have another Rhodesia, I mean Zimbabwe. That would show whitey!


16 posted on 07/15/2012 4:18:33 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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Africa Wins Again... by Kim du Toit

Sunday, May 26, 2002 Let Africa Sink May 26, 2002 12:40 PM CST When it comes to any analysis of the problems facing Africa, Western society, and particularly people from the United States, encounter a logical disconnect that makes clear analysis impossible. That disconnect is the way life is regarded in the West (it's precious, must be protected at all costs etc.), compared to the way life, and death, are regarded in Africa.

Let me try to quantify this statement. In Africa, life is cheap. There are so many ways to die in Africa that death is far more commonplace than in the West. You can die from so many things--snakebite, insect bite, wild animal attack, disease, starvation, food poisoning¦ the list goes on and on. At one time, crocodiles accounted for more deaths in sub-Saharan Africa than gunfire, for example. Now add the usual human tragedy (murder, assault, warfare and the rest), and you can begin to understand why the life expectancy for an African is low--in fact, horrifyingly low, if you remove White Africans from the statistics (they tend to be more urbanized, and more Western in behavior and outlook).

Finally, if you add the horrifying spread of AIDS into the equation, anyone born in sub-Saharan Africa this century will be lucky to reach age forty. I lived in Africa for over thirty years. Growing up there, I was infused with several African traits--traits which are not common in Western civilization. The almost-casual attitude towards death was one. (Another is a morbid fear of snakes.) So because of my African background, I am seldom moved at the sight of death, unless it's accidental, or it affects someone close to me. (Death which strikes at strangers, of course, is mostly ignored.) Of my circle of about eighteen or so friends with whom I grew up, and whom I would consider "close", only about ten survive today--and not one of the survivors is over the age of fifty. Two friends died from stepping on landmines while on Army duty in Namibia. Three died in horrific car accidents (and lest one thinks that this is not confined to Africa, one was caused by a kudu flying through a windshield and impaling the guy through the chest with its hoof--not your everyday traffic accident in, say, Florida). One was bitten by a snake, and died from heart failure. Another also died of heart failure, but he was a hopeless drunkard. Two were shot by muggers. The last went out on his surfboard one day and was never seen again (did I mention that sharks are plentiful off the African coasts and in the major rivers?).

My situation is not uncommon in South Africa--and north of the Limpopo River (the border with Zimbabwe), I suspect that others would show worse statistics. The death toll wasn't just confined to my friends. When I was still living in Johannesburg, the newspaper carried daily stories of people mauled by lions, or attacked by rival tribesmen, or dying from some unspeakable disease (and this was pre-AIDS Africa too) and in general, succumbing to some of Africa's many answers to the population explosion. Add to that the normal death toll from rampant crime, illness, poverty, flood, famine, traffic, and the police, and you'll begin to get the idea. My favorite African story actually happened after I left the country. An American executive took a job over there, and on his very first day, the newspaper headlines read: "Three Headless Bodies Found". The next day: "Three Heads Found". The third day: "Heads Don't Match Bodies". You can't make this stuff up. As a result of all this, death is treated more casually by Africans than by Westerners.

I, and I suspect most Africans, are completely inured to reports of African suffering, for whatever cause. Drought causes crops to fail, thousands face starvation? Yup, that happened many times while I was growing up. Inter-tribal rivalry and warfare causes wholesale slaughter? Yep, been happening there for millennia, long before Whitey got there. Governments becoming rich and corrupt while their populations starved? Not more than nine or ten of those. In my lifetime, the following tragedies have occurred, causing untold millions of deaths: famine in Biafra, genocide in Rwanda, civil war in Angola, floods in South Africa, famine in Somalia, civil war in Sudan, famine in Ethiopia, floods in Mozambique, wholesale slaughter in Uganda, and tribal warfare in every single country. There are others, but you get the point.

Yes, all this was also true in Europe--maybe a thousand years ago. But not any more. And Europe doesn't teem with crocodiles, ultra-venomous snakes and so on. The Dutch controlled the floods. All of Europe controls famine--it's non-existent now. Apart from a couple of examples of massive, state-sponsored slaughter (Nazi Germany, Communist Russia), Europe since 1700 doesn't even begin to compare to Africa today.

Casual slaughter is another thing altogether--rare in Europe, common in Africa. More to the point, the West has evolved into a society with a stable system of government, which follows the rule of law, and has respect for the rights and life of the individual--none of which is true in Africa. Among old Africa hands, we have a saying, usually accompanied by a shrug: "Africa wins again." This is usually said after an incident such as: * a beloved missionary is butchered by his congregation, for no apparent reason * a tribal chief prefers to let his tribe starve to death rather than accepting food from the Red Cross (would mean he wasn't all-powerful, you see) * an entire nation starves to death, while its ruler accumulates wealth in foreign banks * a new government comes into power, promising democracy, free elections etc., provided that the freedom doesn't extend to the other tribe * the other tribe comes to power in a bloody coup, then promptly sets about slaughtering the first tribe * etc, etc, etc, ad nauseam, ad infinitum.

The prognosis is bleak, because none of this mayhem shows any sign of ending. The conclusions are equally bleak, because, quite frankly, there is no answer to Africa's problems, no solution that hasn't been tried before, and failed.

Just go to the CIA World Fact Book , pick any of the African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi etc.), and compare the statistics to any Western country (eg. Portugal, Italy, Spain, Ireland). The disparities are appalling--and i's going to get worse, not better. It has certainly got worse since 1960, when most African countries achieved independence.

We, and by this I mean the West, have tried many ways to help Africa. All such attempts have failed. *Charity is no answer.* Money simply gets appropriated by the first, or second, or third person to touch it (17 countries saw a decline in real per capita GNP between 1970 and 1999, despite receiving well over $100 billion in World Bank assistance). *Food isn't distributed.* This happens either because there is no transportation infrastructure (bad), or the local leader deliberately withholds the supplies to starve people into submission (worse). *Materiel is broken, stolen or sold off for a fraction of its worth.* The result of decades of "foreign aid" has resulted in a continental infrastructure which, if one excludes South Africa, couldn't support Pittsburgh.

Add to this, as I mentioned above, the endless cycle of Nature's little bag of tricks--persistent drought followed by violent flooding, a plethora of animals, reptiles and insects so dangerous that life is already cheap before Man starts playing his little reindeer games with his fellow Man--and what you are left with is: catastrophe.

The inescapable conclusion is simply one of resignation. This goes against the grain of our humanity--we are accustomed to ridding the world of this or that problem (smallpox, polio, whatever), and accepting failure is anathema to us. But, to give a classic African scenario, a polio vaccine won't work if the kids are prevented from getting the vaccine by a venal overlord, or a frightened chieftain, or a lack of roads, or by criminals who steal the vaccine and sell it to someone else. If a cure for AIDS was found tomorrow, and offered to every African nation free of charge, the growth of the disease would scarcely be checked, let alone reversed. Basically, you'd have to try to inoculate as many two-year old children as possible, and write off the two older generations. So that is the only response, and it's a brutal one: accept that we are powerless to change Africa, and leave them to sink or swim, by themselves.

It sounds dreadful to say it, but if the entire African continent dissolves into a seething maelstrom of disease, famine and brutality, that's just too damn bad.

We have better things to do--sometimes, you just have to say, "Can't do anything about it." The viciousness, the cruelty, the corruption, the duplicity, the savagery, and the incompetence is endemic to the entire continent, and is so much of an anathema to any right-thinking person that the civilized imagination simply stalls when faced with its ubiquity, and with the enormity of trying to fix it.

The Western media shouldn't even bother reporting on it. All that does is arouse our feelings of horror, and the instinctive need to do something, anything--but everything has been tried before, and failed. Everything, of course, except self-reliance.

All we should do is make sure that none of Africa gets transplanted over to the U.S., because the danger to our society is dire if it does.

I note that several U.S. churches are attempting to bring groups of African refugees over to the United States, European churches the same for Europe. Mistake!!! Mark my words, this misplaced charity will turn around and bite us, big time. Even worse would be to think that the simplicity of Africa holds some kind of answers for Western society: remember Mrs. Clinton's little book, "It Takes A Village"? Trust me on this: there is not one thing that Africa can give the West which hasn't been tried before and failed, not one thing, that isn't a step backwards, and not one thing which is worse than, or that contradicts, what we have already.

So here's my (tongue-in-cheek) solution for the African fiasco: a high wall around the whole continent, all the guns and bombs in the world for everyone inside, and at the end, the last one alive should do us all a favor and kill himself.

Inevitably, some Kissingerian / realpolitiker/ is going to argue in favor of intervention, because in the vacuum of Western aid, perhaps the Communist Chinese would step in and increase their influence in the area. There are two reasons why this isn't going to happen. Firstly, the PRC doesn't have that kind of money to throw around; and secondly, the result of any communist assistance will be precisely the same as if it were Western assistance.

For the record, Mozambique and Angola are both communist countries--and both are economic disaster areas. The prognosis for both countries is disastrous--and would be the same for any other African country. The West can't help Africa. Nor should we... The record speaks for itself.

Kim du Toit Contact Email: kim [at] theothersideofkim [dot] com

17 posted on 07/15/2012 4:20:27 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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Bttt


18 posted on 07/15/2012 4:32:28 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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The continent is a cancer on the world. How to contain it?

I would be interested to know your thought on Libya - before ‘bmama’s invasion on phony reasons - (the real reason - the gold and Kadaffi's goal of going to the gold standard?)

19 posted on 07/15/2012 4:43:08 PM PDT by maine-iac7
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The continent is a cancer on the world. How to contain it?
Stop inviting them to settle in the west. Africa's only landbridge is through Israel, and Israel isn't letting them in.
20 posted on 07/15/2012 4:53:06 PM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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