Posted: Mar 26, 2008, 8:29 AM CST
Ms smoky I really respect you a lot because of so many reasons mainly you are a woman and of cause your age is forcing me to think ten times before I put a word under your name. If you re-read my comment I never mentioned any name of a country or person but you did, and for sure you put me in the right position to talk.
Mr Conrad said “
it’s a time to take some responsibility and stop blaming the others” quiet good and wise statement but I guess if the right thing has being said in the wrong place and face the wrong direction.
Mr Conrad you are old enough to think for yourself and if you look at one of Smokey’s comment she said she is from South Africa, a country which have over 25% of the world‘s gold, a country which have over 35% of the world’s diamonds a country which have more than 80% of the world’s platinum, a country which have one of the best land for farming and up to now is producing one the best faming products in the world but you know what?
she had 13% of her population were Europeans and from 1905 until 1994 they wrote a law which ban the 87% of Africans from owning a meter of the land under their feet, or any kind of small business forget about the big ones. Smoky said
Mr Jan van Riebeeck is dead long ago, but I guess that Ms smoky forgot that Jan van Riebeack’s law just was halt in 1994 and his mindset still in the minds of many, many people while the fruits of his actions are undeniable.
Africans were forced to be only slaves on their own country or get out. That was physically force but from 1994 after long fight and the lost of so many lives the African has been allowed to be in the office but over 90% of the rich country’s wealth is technically in the hands of those who wrote the law in 1905 and no body can dare to ask a change of this otherwise the consequence will be worst than what is going on in Zimbabwe in the last few years.
Right now the government comes out with plan call BEE (black economic empowerment) and they proposed that they wish in 2015 Africans to have 15% of the African country’s economy but even that the grandsons of Mr Jan van Riebeeck are fighting it tooth & nails not happen.
With all this very limited control of the Africans over their country, South African governments is one of the best in the world and I guess supremacy is forcing some people to oppose truths like this to be told. Ms how can a computer which has been hacked and manipulate for five-hundred can just recover by running a small antivirus? That computer everybody will tell you that it need totally format, and sometimes you will need to change the hardrive, delete all old files, install a fresh window, get all of the updates and start storing new files and this process will take over five-hundreds years.
The Africans are the ones who goes underground and dig the gold, diamonds and platinum but who own it? Who fix the price? Where he live? What worries he have in his mind?
The Africans are the ones who work in the farms as farm labourers but who own the farms? How he got it from the first place? Who sale the products & where he sale it? How much he is making? How much he is spending as salaries of his labourers? What kind of life the labourers lives? Etc those of you who don’t know the life in South Africa, the best salary of a mine worker is R3000(less than 300 Euros a month) and a farm worker is R1000 (less than 100 Euros) I said this is the best salaries and I challenge anyone here to prove me wrong. And here I talk about South Africa because smoky brought that name in otherwise bring any other African country and I will tell you exactly what is going on.
