• dfsdpok

  Sep 10 2012, 21:35

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• willd1mind

  Sep 11 2012, 08:36

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  It is funny that a conference run by foreign capitalists would set up a conference on poverty in South Africa and then say that the media, which is owned by the same class of foreign capitalists, isn't focusing on poverty. I mean seriously. The whole idea that foreign capitalists are going to do anything to alleviate poverty in Africa after 300 years of creating poverty in Africa and lying, misleading and distorting their role in it is hilarious.

  The whole point of the conference in the first place is to provide good PR for these foreign capitalists so they can make it seem as if they are "trying to help" when in reality they are the ones doing most of the damage.

• willd1mind

  Sep 11 2012, 08:58

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  And if you think I am lying about how this conference is nothing but PR cover for the same foreign capitalists that have been raping Africa for the last 300 years, listen to the podcasts on the site talking about labor relations. Please. To hear them tell it, it isnt "their" fault that labor relations are so bad. They "tried" to make it better by talking in air conditioned buildings while jetting all over the world..... oh boo hoo. I should feel so sorry for them shouldn't I. Not. These are the same people who own the mines, farms and industries in Africa and who are exploiting the resources and labor. This didn't just start 20 years ago. This started 200 years ago and these clowns are simply talking a bunch of nonsense that no African with common sense should even listen to. They are preaching their "economic principles" but there is no principle to their economics other than getting the most profit. They are not in Africa to improve anything for Africans and we should stop letting them talk as if they really really really mean good but things just somehow got mixed up somewhere in some bureaucracy. They are simply corporate shills using these forums to present the interests of the corporations and try and spin the activities of these corporations as good in order to minimize the damage of the fact that 20 years of apartheid nothing has changed because all the wealth is still in the hands of foreign capitalists. And they will do everything to blame everything else but themselves and pretend that letting them keep most of the wealth and resources is the only solution backed by high minded "principles" of economics from some European professor or so and so. Are you kidding? Apartheid and the laws that preceded it were not based on high minded anything. These people should not be allowed to speak and Africans need to take their own issues and own agendas on for themselves and stop letting the crooks make themselves look like saints.

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