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2003-12-19 Africa: Southern

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-12-19 00:08|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Why do I get the feeling that S.A. is about a decade away from becoming another Zimbabwe?

Posted by Pappy 2003-12-19 1:32:12 AM|| 2003-12-19 1:32:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Pappy -- Because you're an optimist? It won't take long, once Mbeki starts yelling "Free Land! Free Money!"
I give it 5 years...

Posted by snellenr 2003-12-19 10:11:01 AM|| 2003-12-19 10:11:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It's a short hop across the border to Pretoria. Wait til Thabo has to deploy troops to keep the starving ZimBOBweans from heading for food

Posted by Frank G 2003-12-19 10:43:07 AM|| 2003-12-19 10:43:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Maybe Mbeki and Mugabe can start their own little club and call it "the Commonpoor".

Posted by Dar 2003-12-19 10:53:43 AM|| 2003-12-19 10:53:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Commonpoor heh,heh.

Posted by B 2003-12-19 12:33:06 PM|| 2003-12-19 12:33:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 actually if IIUC Mbeki has tried to move the ANC more towards free market economics - paradoxically this means moving the ANC closer to "black power" since it means tossing the ANC's old allies in the South African Communist Party - shifting to more race based politics than class based. I think Mbekis outreach to Zimbobwe is more a matter of foreign policy, asserting regional muscle, rather than anything to do with ANC domestic policy.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-12-19 1:07:21 PM|| 2003-12-19 1:07:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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