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| Should West compensate South Africa for brain drain? |
| 2015-03-30 |
[AA.TR] Over 1,000 doctors are estimated to have left the country over the past two years alone |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #14 Why would you want to stay in South Africa when you could go somewhere else? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-03-30 16:41 |
| #13 If they had half a brain they'd be trying to get Elon Musk to invest and perhaps build a base there to launch things into orbit. South Africa is a lot closer to the equator,and could promise easier environmental restrictions. If they had half a brain they'd designate a city to be a free port with the same rules and laws as Hong Kong had in the 90s (or as close as possible) and try to make their own Singapore-style shpping hub. If they had half a brain they'd build (or get help) a massive naval base and open it up to western powers who want to patrol against Somali pirates and protect shipping that probably wants to avoid Yemen and Suez these days. But as I said everyone with half a brain or more left. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-30 14:21 |
| #12 Seems to me the latest brain drain occured when Zimbabwae was going all crazy on the white farmers and the government of South Africa sat quiet and waited to see how things would turn out. Anyone with half a brain should have left at that point. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-30 14:16 |
| #11 import Cuban Doktors. Worked for Hoogo |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-03-30 14:15 |
| #10 Frankly, I don't see that the problem is. Just train locals in medicine---surely, nobody but a Better yet, since all cultures are equal, I'm sure native medicine will be (at least) as effective as the eurocentric one. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-30 13:50 |
| #9 HAHAHAHAHAHAH South Africa really is communist if they think they own people and their skills (something the US IRS shares taxing people who work outside the US). |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-03-30 13:15 |
| #8 ..you mean like Detroit? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-30 10:25 |
| #7 Can we evacuate the non Africans and leave the blacks to their fate? |
| Posted by: Woozle Scourge of the Wee Folk4194 2015-03-30 08:09 |
| #6 A fair number of South African docs left the country during the National Party years. I don't recall any demand for compensation then. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2015-03-30 07:58 |
| #5 Just another African country. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2015-03-30 02:01 |
| #4 They are sinking under Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) aka affirmative action, reverse apartheid, horrendous crime and unemployment. Political activist Thuli Madonsela recently trek'd to London with her pleas for the South African diaspora to 'return home'. The comments in the Iol artikel were quite revealing. Thanks to the communist African National Congress (ANC), the entire country has degenerated into a 'Detroit' on the Orange River. An invasion of the Cape Province is now ongoing. Tourism is off. The Cape will soon be gone as well. The west owes you poo flingers absolutely nothing. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-03-30 01:46 |
| #3 Actions have consequences. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-03-30 00:55 |
| #2 And here I thought they believed that humans weren't chattel but free agents of their own fate. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-03-30 00:43 |
| #1 Perhaps the South African government should ask themselves what they did wrong and not blame the West. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2015-03-30 00:03 |