Africa is giving nothing to anyone -- apart from AIDS

[Vrotappel]

Some international perspective on Africa and Zuma:

Indeed, voodoo idiocy seems to be in the ascendant, with the next president of South Africa being a firm believer in the efficacy of a little tap water on the post-coital penis as a sure preventative against infection. Needless to say, poverty, hunger and societal meltdown have not prevented idiotic wars involving Tigre, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etcetera.

 

[semiautomatix]

Wow!

 

[texo]

I'm speechless --

 

[QX6700RULZ]

Brilliant

 

[sand_man]

mmmm... sad indictment on Africa's plight and unfortunately, devastatingly accurate... I guess...

 

[lsuacner]

Pass out aid, but the food should make the people sterile.

This continent can continue to f0 itself in the a0 while chanting for Zuma and the like, the rest of the world should just leave them alone and allow them to have their little wars and "look at me parties". Mature grown up men, do not behave like little spoiled brats.
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=2045762#post2045762

 

[zagame]

sad but true..

here is another piece following on... well almost:

my concerns were intensified when I saw the headline: "Africa has given the world nothing but AIDS." Which was not quite what I said -- the missing "almost" goes a long way;

I braced myself for the worst: and sure enough, in poured the emails. Three hundred on the first day, soon reaching over 800: but, amazingly, 90pc+ were in my support, and mostly from baffled, decent and worried people. The minority who attacked me were risibly predictable, expressing themselves with a vindictive and uninquiring moral superiority. (Why do so many of those who purport to love mankind actually hate people so?)

So what is the moral justification for saving a baby from death through hunger, in order to give her an even more agonising, almost sacrificial, death aged eight or 13? The practice could have been stamped out, with sufficient political will, as sutti in India once was. And the feminists of the west would never have allowed such unconditional aid to be given to such a wicked and brutal society if it had been run by white men.

But, instead, the state was run by black males, for whom a special race-and-gender dispensation apparently applies: thus the two most politically incorrect sins of our age -- sexism and racism -- by some mysterious moral process, akin to the mathematics of the double-negative, annul one another, and produce an unquestioned positive virtue, called Ethiopia.

I am not innocent in all this. The people of Ireland remained in ignorance of the reality of Africa because of cowardly journalists like me. When I went to Ethiopia just over 20 years ago, I saw many things I never reported -- such as the menacing effect of gangs of young men with Kalashnikovs everywhere, while women did all the work. In the very middle of starvation and death, men spent their time drinking the local hooch in the boonabate shebeens. Alongside the boonabates were shanty-brothels, to which drinkers would casually repair, to briefly relieve themselves in the scarred orifice of some wretched prostitute (whom God preserve and protect). I saw all this and did not report it, nor the anger of the Irish aid workers at the sexual incontinence and fecklessness of Ethiopian men. Why? Because I wanted to write much-acclaimed, tear-jerkingly purple prose about wide-eyed, fly-infested children -- not cold, unpopular and even "racist" accusations about African male culpability.

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/c...d-have-written-so-many-years-ago-1437779.html

 

[The Cosmos]

Some international perspective on Africa and Zuma:

Nice reality check for anyone who is fast asleep.

 

[BCO]

Exploding populations are certainly a major cause for concern. I've never understood why it's the poorest people who, due to their poverty, are the most ill-suited to raise children, are the ones with the most kids?

 

[Geriatrix]

Exploding populations are certainly a major cause for concern. I've never understood why it's the poorest people who, due to their poverty, are the most ill-suited to raise children, are the ones with the most kids?

Because
a) they don't use contraceptives.
b) they have nothing better to do than bang each other
c) they see having kids as an insurance policy for the future(getting money from their adult kids)

there's more reasons but you those are some of the first ones I could think of