Comments on: Your Beloved Government In Action. http://hismastersvoice.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/your-beloved-government-in-action/ A monologue about South African politics Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:27:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: The Creator http://hismastersvoice.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/your-beloved-government-in-action/#comment-274 The Creator Thu, 22 May 2008 08:59:10 +0000 http://hismastersvoice.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-274 Well, obviously nobody should trust neocolonialists. Therefore you should not trust the Chinese. (See above for details, if you care to read the actual post.) However, particularly you should also not trust the people telling you to be scared of the Chinese. They have a better record in Africa than most. We should just not be complacent. Well, obviously nobody should trust neocolonialists. Therefore you should not trust the Chinese. (See above for details, if you care to read the actual post.) However, particularly you should also not trust the people telling you to be scared of the Chinese. They have a better record in Africa than most. We should just not be complacent.

]]> By: Fiasco D Gama http://hismastersvoice.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/your-beloved-government-in-action/#comment-273 Fiasco D Gama Thu, 22 May 2008 07:39:21 +0000 http://hismastersvoice.wordpress.com/?p=59#comment-273 It is all very well to pontificate about the Chinese from with in Southern Africa which has only just recently joined the rest of Africa after decades of destroying and disestablishing the rest Africa south of the Congo. But now interestingly it continues with its bad behavior by now betraying us by supporting corrupt despots on her boarders and global dictators and other such regimes. South Africa has never endured abandonment by colonialist powers and large job giving multi nationals or endured independently sever economic global down turns or even a foreign sponsored civil war. Economically they the Chinese have been a god send they have re opened mines, opened new ones, provided aid on a massive scale, provide cheap goods that are the necessities of life for people who live on pittance or even less and this is a great thing for which we should all be grateful especially in places like Zambian mining towns. But we should not forget their interest is in what we have buried in the ground that will feed their factories, the food we can grow to secure the feeding of their people and income from exports to line their pockets. They will always side with the guns and the money look at Sudan. They have no interest in Africans breaking out from the shackles of poverty, repression or the interest that many Africans have in re-defining their post colonial boarders like the citizens of Croatia or Bosnia or the former USSR. They are the new English but they fear not the independence of the Irish or Scots but the Tibetans or Urgars. The difference is this time Africans are better informed and more in control of their destiny than when my ancestors arrived from UK. We must welcome them but we must remember the lessons learned by our ancestors and find a unique African solution as imported ones never seem to work. Ask yourself: when drought and famine come knocking will they still enforce the contracts to export food from Africa to feed their own people. When commodity prices fall will they renegotiate or drive us into the ground like the Copper barons in the 80s? It is all very well to pontificate about the Chinese from with in Southern Africa which has only just recently joined the rest of Africa after decades of destroying and disestablishing the rest Africa south of the Congo. But now interestingly it continues with its bad behavior by now betraying us by supporting corrupt despots on her boarders and global dictators and other such regimes. South Africa has never endured abandonment by colonialist powers and large job giving multi nationals or endured independently sever economic global down turns or even a foreign sponsored civil war.

Economically they the Chinese have been a god send they have re opened mines, opened new ones, provided aid on a massive scale, provide cheap goods that are the necessities of life for people who live on pittance or even less and this is a great thing for which we should all be grateful especially in places like Zambian mining towns.

But we should not forget their interest is in what we have buried in the ground that will feed their factories, the food we can grow to secure the feeding of their people and income from exports to line their pockets. They will always side with the guns and the money look at Sudan. They have no interest in Africans breaking out from the shackles of poverty, repression or the interest that many Africans have in re-defining their post colonial boarders like the citizens of Croatia or Bosnia or the former USSR. They are the new English but they fear not the independence of the Irish or Scots but the Tibetans or Urgars. The difference is this time Africans are better informed and more in control of their destiny than when my ancestors arrived from UK. We must welcome them but we must remember the lessons learned by our ancestors and find a unique African solution as imported ones never seem to work. Ask yourself: when drought and famine come knocking will they still enforce the contracts to export food from Africa to feed their own people. When commodity prices fall will they renegotiate or drive us into the ground like the Copper barons in the 80s?

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