Africans and resources

[dlk001]

Now my opinion is that if the Oppenheimers didn't start mining, all those diamons and minerals would still be under the ground. So what are those resources that we are stealing from the natives, besides land?

Someone else would have discovered those Diamonds. So, you agree that stealing of the land is understandable but the resources underneath that land are a separate matter? Under what law are they open to expropriation by anyone?

 

[Kloofvreter]

Only a khaki clad Afrikaner is capable of those thoughts....

Khaki

EDIT: I actually do not fit into this Trots Afrikaans, or Praat Afrikaans of hou jou bek farmer types. And I'm impartial to the history of the Voortrekker, nothing to be proud of there, nothing to be ashamed of either.

 

[TooFastTim]

Only a khaki clad Afrikaner is capable of those thoughts....

Nah, only a khaki clad Afrikaaner with a comb in his sock.

 

[Gawain]

@ Slootvreter

Nah, only a khaki clad Afrikaaner with a comb in his sock.

Jy was gewaarsku

 

[Kloofvreter]

Yeah well some people think that handing farms back to people whose agricultural skill is at the same as an African person who lived 300 years ago is "progress". No wonder Africans are dying like flies and those who aren't dying subsist on aid. So maybe it isn't obvious to everybody.

But everyone forgets, after they get the farm that was taken from a successful farmer, they must be taught how to farm

 

[TooFastTim]

Someone else would have discovered those Diamonds. So, you agree that stealing of the land is understandable but the resources underneath that land are a separate matter? Under what law are they open to expropriation by anyone?

Whoa there big boy. Diamonds are inherently worthless. De Beers genius lies in their marketing. Not their mining.

 

[Kloofvreter]

@ Slootvreter

Jy was gewaarsku

Boohoo. If I didn't knew this before I started the thread, I would have been stupid

 

[Mila]

I apologize Mila for LMAO but its just the way you said it! almost like... "You know guys... according to all those paintings God and heaven is white as a sheet!"

No Problem. I have asked many people that what would they do if they get to heaven and God is not white....
younger people have no problem with that but the older generation ( 60 +) usually looks as if they are going to kill me or have a fit

 

[dlk001]

Whoa there big boy. Diamonds are inherently worthless. De Beers genius lies in their marketing. Not their mining.

We know a lot about DeBeers and marketing! That's common knowledge. So, what is your point with respect to my post above?

 

[Gawain]

Boohoo. If I didn't knew this before I started the thread, I would have been stupid

LOL I know messing about

 

[TooFastTim]

We know most things are worth what the other party is willing to pay! That's common sense. So, what is your point with respect to my post above?

Just that diamonds are, in the case of this thread, a bad example. Gold and the technology required to extract it is more germane.

 

[Mila]

We know a lot about DeBeers and marketing! That's common knowledge. So, what is your point with respect to my post above?

NOOOO What the wifey wants ... no amount of marketing will tell a wifey she does not need a rock.

What wifey knows about your bank balance and what she wants.

that and drill bits.

 

[LancelotSA]

Boohoo. If I didn't knew this before I started the thread, I would have been stupid

......point proven.....

I realise you have probably put very little thought into the matter and really just started the thread to be controversial but

 

[dlk001]

Just that diamonds are, in the case of this thread, a bad example. Gold and the technology required to extract it is more germane.

I agree! Even using Oppenheimers as people who started mining was a bad example. But don't you think extracting diamonds from a Kimberlite pipe is highly germane? There's a lot of mechanized complicated technology in mining diamonds there too but not as challenging as labour intensive deep level mining.

 

[Vegeta]

younger people have no problem with that but the older generation ( 60 +) usually looks as if they are going to kill me or have a fit

Hahahaha no seriously Mila you have to stop this!! bwahaha I keep coming back to this thread to read your replies i cant work i cant eat i just keep laughing! I'm gonna die if this doesn't stop!

 

[Emjay]

You forget the golden rhino that was stolen and hidden for decades by the Apartheid government precisely to perpetuate the myth of African inferiority.

You believe that website? Take at look at this:

According to the World Health Organization 34.3 million people in the world have AIDS.

1. 24.5 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. Nearly 19 million have died from AIDS, 3.8 million of them children under the age 15.
3. 5.4 million new AIDS cases in 1999, 4 million of them in Africa.
4. 2.8 million died of AIDS IN 1999, 2.4 million of them in Africa.
5. 13.2 million children orphaned by AIDS, 12.1 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
6. Reduced life expectancy in sub-Saharan Africa from 59yrs to 45yrs between 2005 and 2010, and in Zimbabwe from 61yrs to 33yrs.
7. More than 500,000 babies infected in 1999 by their mothers most of them in sub-Saharan Africa.

The Facts: In 1959 scientist identified AIDS. Only In the mid 80's a scientist at the National Institutes for Health, with a high profile reputation in cancer research claimed to have proved the link between HIV and AIDS, although disputed at the time by a handful of scientist, in their desperation to find a cure, the world stopped looking for the virus and began trying to find a treatment or vaccine.

Sixteen years later governments and private organizations across the world have poured billions of dollars in research, treatment and prevention strategies and to date no one has provided scientific proof of the link between HIV and AIDS.

Amongst other that disagreed with the above claims, a German born molecular Biologist at the University of California Berkeley wrote a book "Inventing the AIDS myth" his theory coincided with the above, that Western scientist prematurely concluded that HIV causes AIDS and when billions of dollars became available to study the disease, scientist jump on the band wagon and have been heading in the wrong direction ever since.

Some scientist believe that HIV is not sufficient to cause AIDS and there must be what they call co-factors. No one has yet found a vaccine and claims of evidence of the isolation of the virus have been disputed.

http://www.rebirth.co.za/AIDS_in_Africa_1.htm

AIDS was not discovered until 1981.

Nothing is corroborated either.

 

[Mila]

Hahahaha no seriously Mila you have to stop this!! bwahaha I keep coming back to this thread to read your replies i cant work i cant eat i just keep laughing! I'm gonna die if this doesn't stop!

Remember that one for the next time your grandmother naggs you for gran children or something.... thows them off.
Totaly.

The thread is pointless.

Even the Parliment asked the Prez when will he start protecting our scares natural resources( this year ). Foroget about gold and diamonds.

What about water? How long will they be giving it away, and be waste full?

 

[Mila]

What is a golden Rhino?

 

[dlk001]

What wifey knows about your bank balance and what she wants.

LOL, true to that!

 

[Vegeta]

Screw water, gold or diamonds!
Only scares resources worth keeping to ourselfs are virgins. Not many of those around these days... soon there'll be none!