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2005-04-10 Africa: Subsaharan

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Posted by Fred 2005-04-10 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [11124 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 thks Thabo - sealing your legacy among the "underachieving"

Posted by Frank G 2005-04-10 12:11:29 AM|| 2005-04-10 12:11:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Yea right as you preside over South Africa turing into a 3rd world crap hole.

Posted by Sock Puppet 0â Doom 2005-04-10 12:37:43 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2005-04-10 12:37:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Lets not forget the decline under Mugabe is from the levels achieved under the almost universally villified white regime that was placed under the most severe international sactions ever used.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-10 12:46:14 AM|| 2005-04-10 12:46:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Note the MSM silence on post-apartheid So Africa's miserable record:
-- 40% unemployment
-- most dangerous peacetime capital city on the planet
-- nearly one-third of the adult female population has been raped
-- 20% of the population has AIDS

And these jokers have the nerve to call post-Saddam Iraq "chaotic"?

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-10 12:52:13 AM|| 2005-04-10 12:52:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 And this shithole prevails TEN YEARS after the end of apartheid!

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-10 12:53:37 AM|| 2005-04-10 12:53:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 "Why is it so easy to ignore the death of 3 million people and make extraordinary volumes of noise ~~drowning out my brilliant very, very quiet diplomacy~~ about another country where only a few ~~stooges for white~~ people have died."
I don't know Thabo, why is it so easy to ignore anti-AIDS measures while millions become infected?

Posted by Gleaper Cleregum9549 2005-04-10 12:55:06 AM|| 2005-04-10 12:55:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 When will those critics of the Iraq War and the descent into post-Saddam "chaos" turn their attention to the utter devastation that is today's South Africa and tell us what a mistake it was to end apartheid there?

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-10 1:00:56 AM|| 2005-04-10 1:00:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Sad, when a country (RSA) that was almost firstworldly becomes almost a third world shithole and sliding fast to that category.

Posted by Sobiesky 2005-04-10 1:02:07 AM|| 2005-04-10 1:02:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Pipe down people. Bono will make the tears go away.

Posted by Poison Reverse 2005-04-10 1:30:47 AM|| 2005-04-10 1:30:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 Word. It's a outrage they didn't name Bono to head the World Bank instead of that unqualified slouch Wolfowitz

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-10 9:28:58 AM|| 2005-04-10 9:28:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 It'd be pretty hard to make a case that ending apartheid was a bad thing. And it was an astoundingly peaceful regime change, and the Truth and Reconciliation hearings were quite an interesting and effective innovation. It's a pity nothing much else in the new regime was any good.

Posted by James 2005-04-10 12:13:41 PM|| [http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2005-04-10 12:13:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 In this case, the warmup act was better than the headliner.

Posted by Pappy 2005-04-10 9:19:17 PM|| 2005-04-10 9:19:17 PM|| Front Page Top