Why are these clowns going to South Africa and even setting up these conferences? Seriously. Do you really think that the poverty in South Africa came about by itself? I mean last I checked, the reason for the poverty in South Africa is due to the fact of over 100 years of European industrial exploitation of the land, people and resources resulting in a situation where 90% of land, resources and wealth is in the hand of people of European descent. So there is no mystery here. It isn't a problem with nature. It has nothing to do with climate. And most certainly, it doesn't start with the ANC government as the ANC Government was not in place during the time that all the laws were passed that explicitly forbid blacks from owning land, owning businesses and having any role in South Africa other than as landless peasants. To be honest, that is the real South Africa: landless black peasants working for European and foreign owned multinational industries, farms and mines. However, while the ANC was not the one who put the original constitution in place which basically mandated that the majority African population was primarily supposed to be landless peasants, they haven't done anything to change it. They know and the people running this conference know that this situation didn't come about by itself. It came about by conscious effort on the part of those who built the industrial and economic system in South Africa. It was the foreign industrialists and their institutions.

So now we have a forum, associated with more foreign industrialists and we are supposed to believe that they really care about poverty, when they have been creating a system for the last few hundred years in Africa, America and elsewhere that guarantees poverty for the populations they have exploited and oppressed? Are you kidding, especially when these idiots are going to blame everyone and everything else for the problem and not themselves? With all the industry and wealth in South Africa why are black South Africans living in tin shacks? Is that because of climate change? Is that because of the ANC? How many factories and plants does the ANC own? How many pipes, bricks, aluminum sheets and electrical cables does the ANC have the power to manufacture. Last I checked it was the foreign owned industry, using the resources of South Africa along with black South African labor that has the ability to manufacture those things. So why isn't any of that benefiting black South Africans. Don't give me that nonsense that this forum is really going to address the issue. Do you think these foreign industrialists are really and seriously going to tell their brethren in South Africa that they should give up the 90% control of the wealth and resources of South Africa? Do you really believe they want blacks to truly develop an economic system that really will benefit them as opposed to being permanent landless peasants and slaves according to the principles and policies put forth by people like Cecil Rhodes and Oppenheimer?

Seriously. Such folks should be banned from talking such things and until their actions show that they deserve to talk about such things. It is an insult to even hear it.

@ Willd1mind

Thank u for an inspirational comment.The ANC government is the culprit here.It is not doing anything about the status quo created by the apartheid hegemony,and these elites are getting richer and pot-bellied from kick-backs obtained from corrupt multi-national corporations.

Instead of confronting these foreign businesses and whites causing 'global warming',they will be harassing mamma Saartjie,forbidding her to use her coal stove whereas she does not have electricity.And irony to this is,the smokestacks of industrial factories owned by Mr Browns are depositing hazardous gases into the atmosphere...so long the politician keep getting the money.

The ANC and any other political party in South Africa has lost touch with reality,it is now 'every man for his stomack'.