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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: sea_urchin who wrote (402)7/17/2005 3:40:16 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 1267
 
1. Good points about the impact of refugees on the job market.

2. Not so much a question of handouts as the serious wealth being diffused into a few more hands, albeit not all the masses.

3. Yes, the point of the thread is to talk about problems in Africa. But you and I both have enough experience in this region not to repeat the standard pro and con arguments by rote. I understand what BEE is about and what is meant to address. I don't know if it really succeeded but it's better than not having some type of initiative like that in place. And you can't just hand out Anglo to the masses, it wouldn't work.

That in itself is a problem - whither the post-BEE world?

4. Putting their foot down - just a matter of slamming the door in the face of the worst offenders. We won't see actual military occupations because the oil in Africa is not at risk in the troubled areas and no one cares enough to bother dispatching a US combat brigade to stop African villagers getting slaughtered. You can take Bush's "we support liberty" as you like in that context.

Apart from oil, there is very little worth taking in Africa, compared to the size of the demand in the US and elsewhere for major goods. Africa will never be more than a tiny blip on the international economic radar, if it shows up at all.

5. Mbeki - I was away from the region for a long time and don't really know how plugged in he is with Washington. Certainly he is better than many of the alternatives. It wouldn't surprise me if he gets extra credit for that. Personally, I don't think the US cares much at all what happens north of the Limpopo, apart from a few Africa hands in the State Department with no clout outside their own building anyway.
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