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Originally Posted by JugBR  what the south african mates of the forum think about mandela ? |
Not much actually, as apparently one of the voices of the world his mouth is quite shut about the whole Zimbabwe fiasco, but his mouth is even more shut about the situation is his own country, turning a blind eye to his people that are raped/murdered/sodomized/hijacked/robbed everyday.
Why oh why do you think his birthday party was in the UK? It is impossible to get 40000 ANC supporters to behave in a stadium. The Polokwane ANC forum and ANC Youth League meetings were massive disasters, because they cant behave!!
SELFINRICHMET is the only way in Africa. If Mandela was released in the 80’s South Africa would have been exactly the same as Zim.
This just over the news:
Harare - Zimbabwe will transfer ownership of all foreign-owned firms that support Western sanctions against President Robert Mugabe's government to locals and investors from "friendly" countries, a state newspaper reported on Sunday.
The southern African state is struggling with an economic crisis many blame on Mugabe's policies, which has left it with an inflation rate of over 2.2 million percent and chronic shortages of food and other basic needs.
Mugabe's government blames the crisis on sabotage by enemies angry over his seizures of white-owned farms for blacks, and has followed up that policy with another controversial law seeking to transfer majority ownership of foreign-owned firms to locals.
The Sunday Mail said Zimbabwe had begun auditing the ownership of Western firms in the country as part of a black empowerment drive "and to counter the possible withdrawal of investment under sanctions imposed and proposed by Britain and the US"
Mugabe - fighting to retain power after a controversial runoff poll boycotted by his rival - says Zimbabwe's severe economic crisis is due to sabotage by former colonial master Britain, its European Union allies and the United States.
The Sunday Mail paper said preliminary results of Zimbabwe's audit of foreign investments showed that 499 companies enjoyed British investments. Of these, 309 had majority shareholders in Britain and 97 were wholly owned by Britons.
The audit also found 353 firms with shareholders from other European countries, the weekly said in a story largely attributed to unnamed government sources.
"A high-ranking government source told the Sunday Mail that these companies would be targeted for takeover by local investors and companies from friendly countries, particularly those in the Far East, should they heed calls by the US and European governments for them to disinvest from Zimbabwe," it said.
BTW, Chris Rock was here about a month ago and during an interview the question was asked,
“What do you like about Africa?”
His immediate answer “black people”
I would love to see his celebrity bigmouth after one week living by his own in this country. These guys that comes out of the “Ghetto’s” or what ever they called it has no idea
edd
kinda weird isnt it? these 3rd countries have dictators that have in excess of 300 billion in their accounts
- I hope to make my small contribution to a part of the world in a horrible situation.
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