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Re: lbdave post# 153095

Saturday, 11/27/2010 10:55:24 PM

Saturday, November 27, 2010 10:55:24 PM

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIMxdycncj6G_wdHN9bk6ogEftMg?docId=ef09e8ce4e804723ad6402ad562ac1bb

Read up on this and you tell me you still believe this...

"The fact is now, and was then that many areas of Africa are as sophisticated as the United States, and that is where we WNBD will be."



JOHANNESBURG is far from "sophisticated"...but to each his on...

http://www.africafocus.org/docs04/big0411.php
Highlights from this article

The debate around BIG has been heating up as it became clear that economic growth alone could not address poverty in the country. "It's not going to happen in [the next] 10 years," Charles Meth of the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal told IRIN on Tuesday.



Reflecting the country's apartheid past, poverty was concentrated among blacks, particularly Africans. Sixty-one percent of Africans and 38 percent of mixed-race 'coloureds' were poor, compared with five percent of Indians and one percent of whites, according to the report.



Hey...as long as we can get that 1% to buy WC...we are golden in Africa...