S Africa's Economic Growth is Challenging

President Jacob Zuma has blamed the countries colonial past for the slow economic growth. He was speaking during an Aljazeera interview, following the World Economic Forum.

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President Jacob G. Zuma at Davos.

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Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa, flanked by Klaus Schwab and Peter Brabeck-Latmathe during the Opening Plenary: Africa's Role in the New Reality held at the World Economic Forum on Africa 2011 held in Cape Town, South Africa, 4-6 May 2011.

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  • suemarshall7130
    Jan 23 2013, 14:44

    Caveat- Investors BEWARE !!! Zuma passed a law which already is in effect and mandatory by 2014. If you as a business owner have not complied with this law by 2014, penalties high with probable imprisonment. Here's the law: (a) Business with an annual T/O of R10million and up MUST transfer 50% ownership of this business to it's black employees irrespective of how many employees you have. (b) Iresspective of what your annual T/O is, if you have 50 or more employees you also have to transfer 50% of your business (ownership) to your employees! ZUMA's policy is to empower blacks at the costs of entrepenures and business owners according to BBEE (Black Business Employee Empowerment) and BEE (Black economic empowerment) and AM (Affirmative Action). Ther is absolutely ZERO programs in place to support White Owned busnesses or White Citzen of South Africa which in reality is the driving source/invention/investment in the New South Africa. All government programs are only for benefits of blacks. Free Housing, Subsidized electricity,Free schooling,Multiple charitable organizations and more yet not a single one for it's white citizens. Google opening Pandora's box - Truth about South Africa.

  • suemarshall7130
    Jan 23 2013, 14:55

    Caveat- Investors BEWARE !!! Zuma passed a law which already is in effect and mandatory by 2014. If you as a business owner have not complied with this law by 2014, penalties high with probable imprisonment. Here's the law: (a) Businesses with an annual T/O of R10million and up MUST transfer 50% ownership of their business to it's black employees irrespective of how many employees you have. (b) Irresspective of what your annual T/O is, if you have 50 or more employees you also have to transfer 50% of your business (ownership) to these employees! ZUMA's policy is to empower blacks at the costs of entrepenures and business owners according to BBEE (Black Business Employee Empowerment) and BEE (Black economic empowerment) and AM (Affirmative Action). There is absolutely ZERO programs in place to support White Owned busnesses or White Citzens of South Africa which in reality is the driving source/invention and investment in the New South Africa. All government programs are only for benefits of blacks. Free Housing, Subsidized electricity,Free schooling,Multiple charitable organizations and more yet not a single one for it's white citizens. Not a single program exists for white families or white children. Google: 'Opening Pandora's Box - Truth about South Africa'. Remember too, when you sit at the table to negotiate with the ANC democratic governmentof SA, it would be like two wolve and a lamb sitting at the dining table negotiating - whats for dinner! (A no win situation)

  • foryohjonathan0000
    Jan 29 2013, 05:44

    WHY ARE THEY RACISTS ALWAYS WANT TO DESTROY,HUMULIATE AND DOMINATE AFRICA AND AFRICANS IN ANY FORMS AND SHAPE?? WHY??

  • ras sideeq
    Jan 29 2013, 17:34

    PRESIDENT ZUMA SIAD UNFORTUNATELY THE MOST NEGATIVE OF SPEAKERS ABOUT AFRICAS DEVELOPMENT WERE AFRICANS::: WOW!!!! THIS IS A LOW ESTEEM PROBLEM , SELF HATERS'; THEY WHOLE HEARTEDLY EMBRACED EVERYTHING THE WEST HAS RAMMED DOWN THIER THROATS'. THEY BELIEVE ALL THE STEREOTYPES N B.S.AND IS QUICK TO PUT A BLACK MAN DOWN. THESE SORTS OF PEOPLE ARE JUST LOST, THEY ARE LOYAL DOGS TO THE SINKING SHIP THEY WILL DIE WITH THIER MASTERS"". WHEN AFRICANS BELIEVE TRULY BELIEVE THAT AFRICA IS THE GENISI" WHERE IT ALL BEGAN; WHEN THEY LET GO OF THE THEORETICAL FANTASY THAT IS BEING ESPOUSED BY THE WEST AND TRULY EXAMINE THE EARTH. LOOK AT ALL THE STEREOTYPES AND THE PROPGANDA IN DEPTH AND YOU WILL SEE HOW TRULY FAR ADAVCED AFRICANS ARE." JUST FOR POSTERITY I WILL SAY THIS WHEN WE LOOK AT WHAT IS GOING ON TODAY IN MALI THIS HAPPENED FIVE CENTURIES AGO WITH THE SAME PLAYERS. HISTORY DOES REPEAT ITSELF.. THE WEST ON SIDE LOOKING TO ENSLAVE AND THE WHITE ARABS THAT CAME TO TEACH AFRICANS WHO TO BE MUSLIMS ALSO TO ENSLAVE, EXACT SAME THING! THEY DID THE SAME THING BURNED THE UNIVERSITY OF TIMBUKTU TO THE GROUND. THIS IS WAHT THE MILITANTS THESE EXTREMIST WHO ARE NOT EVEN MUSLIMS DID RECENTLY; THEY CAN NOT EVEN READ AND WRIT? YET THEY WANT TO GO INTO AFRICA AND TEACH THE ORIGINAL MUSLIMS HOW TO BE MUSLIMS????. THESE MYTHS ABOUT AFRICA HAS DERIVED FROM THE WEST EVEN SPILLING OVER TO AFRICA WHERE NORTH AFRICANS DO NOT KNOW THEY ARE OF MIXED RACE HERITAGE THAT THIER FOREFATHERS WERE POLYGAMIST WHO HAD MANY WOMEN INCLUDING MANY WHITES AS THIER WIVES!!!!!!!THESE SO CALLED ARABS THINK THAT EBCAUSE THEY SEEM TO BE MORE IN NUMBERS THAT THERE ARE NOT ANY TRUE MUSLIMS OTHER THAN THEY. WHAT HAS HAPPENED DURING THE MEDIEVEL PERIOD THE WHITE ARABS THE COLOURED ARABS THE EUREOEANS DECIDED ON COMBINING THIER BOOKS SO THEY CO EXISTED AS ONE PRINCIPLED RELIGION WITH THIER HEGEMONS CONTROLING THE EARTH AS IT WAS THEN., EUROPE EXTENDED ITS INFLUINCE TO NORTH AMERICA WHILE THE NEW ARABS WENT TO ASIA. THIS IS JUST A PIECE OF IT. ONETHING IS TRUE THEY DECIDED TO COOPT THIER RELIGIONS TO DEMONISE THE OPRIGINAL PEOPLE PARTICIPANTS OF THE SCRIPTURES. AFRICANS EVEN THOUGH WAS PRIMARILY MUSLIM WAS IGNORED BY COLOURED MUSLIMS WHO SIDED WEITH WHITES TO ENSLAVE THIER OWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS. HENCE WE HEAR ALL THE PROOGANDA OF HOW ONE SUN WAS CURSED BY HSI FATHER TO BECOME A SLAVE FO THE OTHER. WHAT IS FANTASY ABOUT THAT IS THAT THE WHITE FATHER OCULD NOT HAVE A BLACK SON WITH MELANIN!!!!!! SO WE KNOW THAT TO BE FALSE! AS THE FATHER WAS BLACK WHO COULD HAVE A WHITE SON. THE STORY WAS CHANGED TO FIT THE PURPOSE AS WE SEE THOSE THAT STILL THINK THAT THE ZIONIST ARE TRULY THE ISRAELITES WHAT THEY SAY IS IS THIS HOW JEWS AND MUSLIMS LIVED TOGETHER IN EUROPE ??? YES THEY DID ,THAT,WAS DURING THE MOORISH PERIOD WHEN THE ISRAELITES FROM WEST AFRICA WERE PART OF THE EXPORT TO EUROPE AS THEY BOTH WERE MONOTHESEIST THEY WERE BOTH BLACK THEY LIVED HARMOPNIOUSLY. IF YOU VIEW SOME VERY EARLY PICTURES OF GERMAN SO CALLED H JEWS YOU WILL SEE SOME VERY ENLIGHETNING PHOTGRAPHS OF MIXED RACE ORTHODOX WHO PRIMARILY RESEMBLED BLACKS. AGAIN THIS IS ANOTHER STORY IF ONLY MY BROTHERS WOULD SEARCH THE RIGHT PLACES FOR KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING BLACK HISTORY. READ THE HISTORY OF BLACK AFRICANS WORLD WIDE WRITTEN PHOTGRAPHED BY AN ARCHAEOLOGIST WHO WAS A WRITER FROM JAMAICA DURING THE MARCUS GARVEY PERIOD. HE TRAVELED AND ESCAVATED THE PLANET WITH THE BEST, HE WROTE "FROM SUPERMAN TO MAN" J A ROGGERS THE GREAT SCHOLAR.

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