[Valin]

I recall reading that many business's hated the apartheid laws, because it interfered with finding and keeping god workers. Everytime I look at that continent I just get depressed. It's a continent in the process of slow motion suicide.

[backhoe]

I recall reading that many business's hated the apartheid laws,

That's what I remember, too- I always believed that ( left alone and given time ) the government and businesses in South Africa would realize what a huge market the coloreds represented and see the self-defeating foolishness of holding them down as second-class citizens.

That's what the old "merchant" in me saw, anyway- you want your neighbor to do better in life because everybody eventually benefits from it.

I, too, find looking at Africa almost terminally depressing- there is so much potential, but it always seems to get short-circuited by the bad side of human nature....