African solutions to African problems.

[daveza]

Perhaps someone more enlightened can tell me what I'm missing here -

AU leaders tell the ICC to get stuffed as regards the warrant against Al-Bashir.

Mugabe - well we all know what he thinks of ' the Breeteesh and the West '

Our own leaders side with the African leaders - African solutions for African problems...

But then

We allow China to influence our foreign policy

And we join the rest of Africa insisting that the G8 focuses on giving huge amounts of cash to the very same people who tell the rest of the world to kiss their ass.

Can anyone show me the error of my thinking ?

 

[Balstrome]

What do you want us to say? Of course the AU could have valid reasons for letting a war criminal like Al-Bashir walk free, apart from setting a precedent, like Bush tried to do with not allowing US soldiers to be tried for war crimes. With regards to Mad Bob, we only have to worry about this puck for the next couple years and then he will be as dead as Voster. Now China is the chap with the money, so business sense says allow the customer to believe he is king, as long as he pays, which China is willing to do. Sure, that is short sighted, because China will get round to ass biting in the not to distant future, but those in charge now, know that they will be long gone before that happens.

 

[daveza]

Fair comment on why African leaders react to the international community as they do, but it doesn't explain why in the same breath they feel entitled to demand hand-outs for their own failed economies.

 

[Balstrome]

Not really their fault, it works like this, there once was a family that had no food, and some kind people did a whip round and gave them some food, in fact more food than they really needed to survive the hard times. They got used to all this free food that got delivered to them. But when the rest of the people realised that they where been taken for a ride, as well as they themselves needed some of this food, they stop giving. But this did not make the poor family stop expecting food. Typical Pavlova response, so now they make up reasons, some of which are quite convincing to many people, that the kind people need to keep feeding the poor family.

 

[ponder]

AU leaders tell the ICC to get stuffed as regards the warrant against Al-Bashir.

And we join the rest of Africa insisting that the G8 focuses on giving huge amounts of cash to the very same people who tell the rest of the world to kiss their ass.

Not Botswana.

Yeah, they want money but on their terms. I should try that with the bank one day

 

[krycor]

Not really their fault, it works like this, there once was a family that had no food, and some kind people did a whip round and gave them some food, in fact more food than they really needed to survive the hard times. They got used to all this free food that got delivered to them. But when the rest of the people realised that they where been taken for a ride, as well as they themselves needed some of this food, they stop giving. But this did not make the poor family stop expecting food. Typical Pavlova response, so now they make up reasons, some of which are quite convincing to many people, that the kind people need to keep feeding the poor family.

Too simplistic besides the harsher climatic conditions in some areas you overlooking the trade agreements most of africa has signed for sustaining & developing themselves only to find that they are out priced in their own local markets(particularly produce and dairy) by cheaper imports whilst ad campiegns sweep the nation of the latest craze of e.g. imported ready made long lasting milk. Then, farming becomes more expensive than simply using the cheaper imports.. well while it was cheap because as soon as their farms become a thing of the past import prices rise and very fast the country can no longer afford to sustain itself.

globalisation + wto + 'aid' = FTL

 

[Balstrome]

Those who can do, do, those who can not, whine.

 

[Aeron]

Can't wait for Chinese colonization. Hope it's as overt as the British one.

 

[Frankie]

More African solutions.

The twatt has his hand out begging for investment and in the same sentence announces ongoing eviction of white farmers further reducing food production

Mugabe: Zim land reform will spare some white farmers

I didn't realise that Zimbob still had white farmers there, or any farmers.

 

[Redant]

Perhaps someone more enlightened can tell me what I'm missing here -

AU leaders tell the ICC to get stuffed as regards the warrant against Al-Bashir.

Mugabe - well we all know what he thinks of ' the Breeteesh and the West '

Our own leaders side with the African leaders - African solutions for African problems...

But then

We allow China to influence our foreign policy

And we join the rest of Africa insisting that the G8 focuses on giving huge amounts of cash to the very same people who tell the rest of the world to kiss their ass.

Can anyone show me the error of my thinking ?

Very simple. You do not think like an African.

 

[Alan]

Can anyone show me the error of my thinking ?

For once no

 

[daveza]

There's a first time for everything.

 

[rebel998]

Everything works different in Africa.

 

[krycor]

And for the 1st time in 2 decades! aid to developing/poor nations will be aimed at food production rather than the usual dumping of food(as i mentioned which kills local production + basically makes for 1st world countries new consumers). [This you can see in Bolivia too and their struggle with donated clothes vs local textile industry]

$20 Billion in promised by the G8. Not bad.. now to see how much of it really goes into production assistance.

 

[news24]

We allow China to influence our foreign policy

This is a step in the right direction, you certainly do not need a Phd to know that. At the trajectory that China is growing we all need to be nice to China, a New World Order is in the making.

And we join the rest of Africa insisting that the G8 focuses on giving huge amounts of cash to the very same people who tell the rest of the world to kiss their ass.

IDIOT PROOF QUESTION! Just how much have the G8 countries stole from Africa? And to what extend have they contributed to the suffering of African people?

Can anyone show me the error of my thinking

I think that you are incapacitated to think

 

[daveza]

And to what extend have they contributed to the suffering of African people?

Perhaps you could tell us how the west has contributed to the suffering of the Zimbabwean people over the past 20 years ?

 

[Zenbaas]

Perhaps you could tell us how the west has contributed to the suffering of the Zimbabwean people over the past 20 years ?

DO-NOT-NEED-FEED-COOKIE-MONSTER

 

[Frankie]

Perhaps you could tell us how the west has contributed to the suffering of the Zimbabwean people over the past 20 years ?

And while he's about it explain how the west influence the ANC to disenfranchise the previously and currently disadvantaged people in SA.

 

[news24]

And while he's about it explain how the west influence the ANC to disenfranchise the previously and currently disadvantaged people in SA.

The ANC is working hard to repair the damage that was caused by the previous Imperial Government which was run by people who decend or originate from the west.

Fortunately for us the ANC led goverment is moving stead fast in roughly 15 years they have managed to nearly triple the GDP of our country. At the same time they managed to put 2million people or so under a decent roof.

Unfortunately the cookie monsters are always whinning like little babies because the government does not allocate the big percentage of the budget to the minority oppressors.

Thanks to the ANC led government, each and every South Africa regardless of race or gender can have a decent Education, mind you know that before this was not the case, the west were encouraging the Apartheid government and sanctioned the ANC as a terrorist organisation, to safe face they publicly denonced what was happening in SA. Eventhough they sanctioned SA their corporations were thriving in SA.

Thanks to the ANC led government, through their education system, I managed to aquire a qualification and I can now boss people who are at most 20 years older than me and have a decade of experience. Today I odly noticed something, I was in a boardroom meeting with atlest 15 White men & I was the only chocolate man in the boardroom and I'm not even working for the government, hell I'm not even employed by a South African company, come to think of it, I don't even work in SA. I'm aware if this was in SA the cookie monsters of myBB would sing the "Merit Song"and question my qualification.

Face it,the ANC is sanctioned by those in heaven to carry out their agenda until the prophecy comes into being. Can I get an AMEN?

 

[news24]

Perhaps you could tell us how the west has contributed to the suffering of the Zimbabwean people over the past 20 years ?

20 years? Are you mental? The greatest sin that was committed by the people of Zimbabwe was to take their own land back from western oppressors-turned-settlers.