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To: TobagoJack who wrote (41593)	10/21/2008 1:21:07 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220322

Luanda Report. After the beach, the downtown part. City center has several huge buildings being built. Public buildings, office blocks, hotels and residential buildings. Surrounded by old building falling into pieces. This -the photo attached- is the Eastern part of what is going to be the new center business district. The area is ocupppied by old buildings dating from the colonial times (pre-1975)Government need to get the people out of there to make room for the new cityscape.I am speculating here that the plan to get the people out of this area is actualy brutal. They have their plan B, quietly working on the background.. Goverment slowly will chase people away from downtown Luanda surrounding where we are in this office. (which is the photo central area attached) They will achieve that by making life hell here for the normal people living in this area in the old buildings. Erratic electricity, sewage overflowing in the side walk, erratic water supply, chaotic traffic to come in, to park and to move out.This is no fun, I can tell you!!! Neither driving nor walking. In parallel they are building the new landscape, (see photo Luanda) all those cranes around here. In those new buildings they invest in the public utilities (sewage, water, electricity and telecoms). Once the life becomes unbearable for the population in those old buildings -here down town- the government steps in and provide the solution taking them away to new areas outside the city where it plans to construct new housing projects and the government even comes out as heroes for the people who moved away and the area start getting empty to be modernized.