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>> On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 14:18:27 GMT, " bozak"
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>my puppet says what?
EXCERPT: in 1999 South Africa had 121 murders and 119 rapes per
100,000 inhabitants, compared with Colombia’s 69 and 6 respectively
(and the United States’ 5 and 32)
EXCERPT: South Africa has seen the rise of vigilante groups filling
the void left by an incompetent (affirmative action, again – one third
of policemen are functionally illiterate) and violent police – who
between 1997 and 2000 killed 1,550 people, compared with 2,700 killed
by the apartheid regime in 30 years.
EXCERPT: South Africa has the world’s largest number of persons living
with HIV/AIDS: 5 million of its 44 million citizens are HIV-positive.
Only 42 million are infected worldwide [snip] But Mbeki has repeatedly
stated that he did not believe the "thesis" that AIDS is caused by
HIV, or that it is a virus at all.
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South Africa: The Downside of Liberation
By Michael Radu
[snip]
Yes, Mandela implemented an aggressive affirmative action policy once
he took office—which slowed down the economy. His government
established a criminal law code on the European model – abolition of
the death penalty, excessive rights for accused criminals, etc., with
destructive results. South Africa today competes with civil war–torn
Colombia for the dubious distinction of being the world’s most
crime-ridden country. Interpol’s International Crime Statistics say it
all: in 1999 South Africa had 121 murders and 119 rapes per 100,000
inhabitants, compared with Colombia’s 69 and 6 respectively (and the
United States’ 5 and 32). The trends are no more encouraging
considering that in 1994 the world’s average murder rate was 5.5 per
100,000, compared to South Africa’s 45. In such circumstances, and
with a slow justice system, which only produces a 10 percent
conviction rate, South Africa has seen the rise of vigilante groups
filling the void left by an incompetent (affirmative action, again –
one third of policemen are functionally illiterate) and violent police
– who between 1997 and 2000 killed 1,550 people, compared with 2,700
killed by the apartheid regime in 30 years.
The high crime rates, and a decline in educational standards, led to a
massive emigration of white professionals to the United States, UK,
Canada, and Australia. A 1998 poll of 11,000 skilled professionals
suggested that 74 percent wanted to emigrate – with then-president
Mandela responding with "Good riddance" to them. The problem is that
not just professionals leave South Africa – major cor****ations also
moved out, including mining giant Anglo American Co. and South African
Breweries, both of which are now headquartered in London.
[snip]
When it comes to African opinions at the UN, Pretoria also prefers to
side with the worst. Libya for chairman****p of the UN Human Rights
Commission? Yes, said Pretoria, and so did the rest of the African
bloc. Sup****t Mugabe’s "right" to be invited to Lisbon for the
EU-African Summit? Yes again, at the cost of billions of dollars in
aid to Africa. Mandela’s ideological legacy seems to be alive in
Pretoria’s international behavior.
None of this should come as a surprise. The once dominant South
African National Defense Force (SANDF) is now only a shadow of its
past self, largely as a result of budget cuts and affirmative action,
which put former ANC terrorist thugs and gang members in charge and
led to a massive exodus of white and colored (mixed race) officers.
Since elections in South Africa are largely decided by race, the ANC
is, for all practical purposes, the only political party that matters,
and the distribution of power is decided by intra-party debates,
rather than be negotiations with the largely ineffective opposition.
President Mbeki has a problem with his own ANC party, specifically
with Nelson Mandela’s former wife, Winnie. Mrs. Mandela is the loose
cannon of the ANC. A convicted torturer and felon and thoroughly
corrupt, she remains a very popular figure with black South African
youths and was repeatedly elected to the ANC leader****p. The
disturbing thing here is not so much Winnie’s criminality, awful as it
is, as the general decline of South Africa’s judiciary, which is
becoming increasingly more "African" and less and less Western.
Finally, there are Mr. Mbeki’s autocratic style and personal beliefs –
such as those regarding AIDS. South Africa has the world’s largest
number of persons living with HIV/AIDS: 5 million of its 44 million
citizens are HIV-positive. Only 42 million are infected worldwide
(Anne-Marie O’Connor, "S. Africa Has Doubts on U.S. AIDS Proposal,"
Los Angeles Times, 1/30/03). But Mbeki has repeatedly stated that he
did not believe the "thesis" that AIDS is caused by HIV, or that it is
a virus at all. Until last week, he even resisted making available, at
foreign subsidized prices, the anti-retroviral drugs that have proven
effective in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV. (South
Africa already has 660,000 AIDS orphans.) Considering that South
Africa has the only real health care system in sub-Saharan Africa,
such an attitude is nothing short of suicidal for the region.
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