"AA here to stay" - Trevor Manuel

[IanC]

The ANC wants the masses to prosper. That is why AA will remain forever. You just need to get used to it.

With the SA population looking as follows:

• Black 79.00% (34,908,233)
• White 9.60% (4,242,013)
• Coloured 8.90% (3,932,700)
• Indian/Asian 2.50% (1,104,691)

I think you are correct.

 

[IamCanadian]

With the SA population looking as follows:

• Black 79.00% (34,908,233)
• White 9.60% (4,242,013)
• Coloured 8.90% (3,932,700)
• Indian/Asian 2.50% (1,104,691)

I think you are correct.

The real question is whether or not AA will lead to prosperity for the masses. I am inclined to believe that it won't because it is discriminatory in essence. Even with AA the reality is that there are no African countries that are prospering in spite of $580 billion being thrown their way from the west.

Where the hell did all that money go?

I bet it went into creating commitees to think up ways on how to creat a committee to discuss if a committee is needed to look into the formation of things like AA or on how to take the land back from the evil colonialists. And then some.

Can Africa create prosperous societies?

Just about everywhere you look, evidence abounds around the world that prosporous societies are being created, just not in Africa. For example, Vietnam suffered a war of colonial conquest and it was eventually subdued by France in 1884. For almost a decade, it again fought a devastating independence war until France was vanquished in 1954. And then came the epic battle of 1965 to 1973 with US military and its allies, seeking to squelch the North Vietnamese communists.

When the guns fell silent with the withdrawal of US troops in 1973 and the eventual fall of Saigon in 1975, the Vietnamese toll stood at a horrifying three to four million. Diplomatically isolated, its economy shredded and its population maimed and traumatised on a scale unparalleled in any Black African nation (except DR Congo), Vietnam would seem to have no chance at success.

But just two and a half decades later, Vietnam is storming the world stage as an economic powerhouse. Its exports are flooding western nations; heavy and advanced manufacturing is thriving at a rapid pace. Its GDP, $258 billion, is having an average growth rate of 8%, the second highest in Asia after China. Europe had to put curbs on the country's shoe exports after they nearly sunk much of the continent's manufacturers.

According to a news report in New York Times on October 25, 2006, Vietnam now sells "nine times as much to Americans as it buys from there." Since 1990, a space of 15 short years, Vietnam has pulled off one of the most stunning economic feats: reducing absolute poverty-World Bank standard: subsisting on $1 a day-from 51 to 8% of its population.

 

[JK8]

With the SA population looking as follows:

• Black 79.00% (34,908,233)
• White 9.60% (4,242,013)
• Coloured 8.90% (3,932,700)
• Indian/Asian 2.50% (1,104,691)

I think you are correct.

Errrm only 1 mill indians? and also coupled with all the Chinese?

 

[BobbyMac]

Errrm only 1 mill indians? and also coupled with all the Chinese?

Doesn't sound right hey? There's a million in Chatsworth alone.

 

[hj2k_x]

Are these not the original 1997 figures?

 

[Skeptik]

Sadly AIDS will take it's toll and those figures will look quite different soon enough.

 

[hj2k_x]

Sad but true yes.