It has been the great misfit Australian policy since the 1990s: a refugee and immigration policy that shows itself to be scrupulously fair, calculable and clean. Nothing shall be permitted to sully this presumption. Even as refugees and asylum seekers gather dampness, decay and depression in Pacific camps, the Australian immigration policy shall remain, like Caesar’s wife, above reproach.
by Anon for the Saker Blog Part One: The Real Current Event Part Two: Rolling Over of the President – Musical Chairs Part Three: History for Perspective a) Short notes
P.D. Lawton
21st Century Wire
Whose economic ideas are obsolete and whose corruption are we talking about?
Julius Malema, the leader of the Marxist-Revolutionary Economic Freedom Fighters party led the charge to change the country's constitution so land owned by whites may be expropriated without compensation. Most blacks have accepted Marxism and want revenge on whites, who they have been told are the last vestiges of evil capitalism. Whites comprise about 8% of the total population of an estimated 60 million people.
Hard to measure services sector revisions make technical recession disappear
Is the South African economy on the rise again? [Xinhua]The IMF in January 2018 estimated that South Africa grew by 0.9 per cent in 2017. South Africans were even more pessimistic and in the fourth quarter 2017 survey by the Bureau for Economic Research, the average forecast was that 2017 growth would be only 0.5 per cent rising to 1.0 per cent in 2018.
Malawi has become the latest in African countries which have banned processed meat products imported from South Africa after the South African Department of Health confirmed hundreds of listeria bacteria cases in the country were to meat products.
The meat export industry is a major cash cow for South Africa [Xinhua]
Earlier in the week, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia banned the import of meat products from South Africa and called on retailers to remove and destroy any such meats immediately.
The upcoming BRICS summit in South Africa will focus on development, especially that of developing countries, including African countries [Xinhua]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says that BRICS is the right type of multilateral organization that can increase collective cooperation on global affairs and development, particularly in Africa.
Lavrov’s comments came ahead of his five-nation African tour.
The motion seeks to amend part of South Africa’s constitution, which guarantees property rights, and allow the government to take the land from the white farmers and not provide them with any financial compensation.
President Cyril Ramaphosa won reviews of his cabinet shuffle but this was soured by the new land re-appropriation motion [Image: GCIS]
The communist government has imposed a program called Black Economic Empowerment, which limits white employment. As a result, white engineers and skilled craftsmen have been laid off. In the name of racial equality, the government has doomed the economy to decline even further. This is resulting in a lowering living standard for blacks even more than for whites. Cape Town is expected to run out of water in just a few more weeks, but the technicians with the best chance of preventing that have been terminated because of the color of their skin.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — If ever there was a pivotal moment for South Africa’s young democracy, it was likely two years after voters of all races went to the polls for the first time, when President Nelson Mandela’s ruling party, the African National Congress, decided to proceed with construction of a mammoth, $8 billion dam project in neighboring Lesotho.
