The Running Commentary

TIME agrees Africa is the place to invest

Many of myregular readers will know my passion for South Africa and indeed the African continent.  I am of the firm belief that Africa has the potential to grow into a really meaningful player in terms of the Global stage. One of my pet comments though has been the fact that the world seems to…

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African opportunity from African ruin…….

I was listening to the Africa report on 567 talk radio this morning by JJ Cornish. I was struck that much of what he reported on, as been said before (several times) – Zimbabwe will need more mediation, The LORDS resistance army is still to come to that table in terms of signing the peace…

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US President is not the “World President”!

I am writing this as I want to highlight how some people view the USA and the post of President of the country. I read the TIME magazine and take particular interest in the letters section (Inbox) as this is where you can see the real reaction to articles published. Tolu Ogunlesiis a Nigeria (or…

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Africa watching as is the rest of the world….

 The continent of Africa is watching the Zimbabwe process with just as much interest as the rest of the world (perhaps even more). This power sharing process must be a success else we as a continent will continue to battle to move out of the “dark ages” mentality that the world has of us.  The…

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If ever you needed a reason to vote!!

Below an excerpt from article I picked up via my news reader this weekend.  The article is fairly lengthy and I may be accused of editing to suit my point of view, but I am posting it never-the-less.  Senior ANC leaders are preparing to push strongly for a law that prohibits criminal charges against a…

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The problem with Africa…

Carte Blanche (hosted by MNet) ran a story this past Sunday entitled “The Problem with Africa” and was effectively an interview with Robert Calderisi’s who has written a booked by the same title. The questions raised are pertain to whether the aid given to Africa by the world leading foreign Aid agencies, is keeping Africa…

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Minding the Gap

I happened upon a site called Gap Minder. This site blew me away in terms of visual representations of the world that we are living.  It offers fantastic visualisations in graphical format.  The graphs aggregate population demographics on a global basis and allows the users to follow their own countries progression (or regression) over a…

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