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RE: Dear South African Government, What The Hell Are You Thinking??
I'm the semantic nazzi here to inform you that you used government and thinking in the same sentence.
Edit .. on the loan aspects, China like any other lender cares little about how you waste the funds, they simply want their returns. My understanding is Sri Lanka also had intense levels of corruption. On the positive side, it's in China's interest to see a prosperous region and I'm convinced they and other BRICS partners are doing what they can to hold things together. The land question is troubling, not because of land reform in principle, but because of the slippery hands that are prone to mismanagement, to put it politely.
Apologies for my erroneous sentence, that was a slip up of governmental proportions!!
I suppose that time will tell in the end. as for the land reform, even in principle - it is completely unwarranted, taking land from current owners and giving it to someone who had no heritage rights on the land to begin with is wrong, the fact that the people that the government claims that the land will be going to has ample opportunities handed to them in prior land reformations as well as bee and other correctional acts in their favor - doing so now after having done this over the past twenty years already but now without compensation is blatant theft, and THEN of course the issue of corrupt hands above all that...
I've given up - we have people stealing on grand scale - then a commission i set up. No one is accused. There are no real defendants, just witnesses and a big plaintiff - US. And guess who has all the rights. Today's hearing got shifted almost 30 days - so we can be sure, that our grand kids might be seeing the end of this one. Certainly, the witnesses will be thanks - they might resign, but they will still get a thank you and keep their large properties and ill-gotten gains. It has all given me a reason to try and get a bit sloshed on some beer. I give up. Take care of yourselves.