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Last Sunday it was the US Ambassador.
This Sunday it is the African Union’s elite watchdog body.
And so it continues:
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=333158
This Sunday it is the African Union’s elite watchdog body.
And so it continues:
The report reinforced US ambassador Eric Bost’s warning in a Sunday Times interview last week that crime could torpedo South Africa’s hosting of the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
The panel listed among the 15 key threats to South Africa’s stability:
1) The high level of violent crime, which is discouraging investment and causing many skilled people to leave the country;
2) High levels of crime against women and children, including rape and violence at schools;
3) Unemployment, which fuels crime and alienates young people from their society;
4) Black economic empowerment, which enriches too few people too much and encourages politicians to go into business;
5) The critical shortage of skills, which is not being addressed by an expensive education system that is not producing results; and
6) The immense gap between the rich and the poor and the division of society by race and class.
“Race relations remain brittle and sensitive. Many whites, coloureds and Indians feel alienated and marginalised. Some blacks, on the other hand, feel too little has changed,” said the report, written by a panel of seven eminent persons appointed under African Union rules to lead the peer review.
http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=333158