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A guy Auditioning in pants. The MNET West Africa Idols auditions in Lagos Nigeria

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SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID

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Added: December 12, 2007
SOUTH AFRICA: THE NEW APARTHEID

The series began in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy journeys from the Zimbabwean border to one of Johannesburg’s most dangerous quarters to investigate.

Friday 13 October 2006 7.35pm
Sunday 15 October 2006 4.35am (R)

Reporter Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy and Director Robin Barnwell begin their film on the Zimbabwean border with a group of Zimbabweans as they begin a long journey to Johannesburg. The South African police stop them but let them go in exchange it is claimed, for a bribe, which the people smugglers claim is routine.

The Zimbabweans say they are fleeing a collapsing state, where President Mugabe’s policies have driven the economy into crisis and where earning enough to feed their families is impossible. However, the South Africans blame them for a crime wave and accuse them of causing unemployment.

White farmers in the Limpopo border region tell Unreported World that the immigrants are perpetrating brutal farm murders and poaching their game. The team films several farmers taking the law into their own hands by rounding them up, tying them together and handing them over to the police.

It’s not just the farmers who believe these migrants are fuelling a crime wave. The team moves on to Johannesburg and films with police in one of the city’s most dangerous areas. They accompany officers who routinely use plastic bullets to round up suspected illegal immigrants.

Those they catch are sent to the Lindela detention centre. The team interview a group of Congolese men who accuse the guards of severely beating them. Another inmate laments that South Africans have forgotten the support that their “African brothers” gave them during the days of Apartheid and accuses black South Africans of being the “biggest racists in the world”.

The team then travel to the suburb of Diepsloot where the local South African business community has written an extraordinary letter to Somalian shopkeepers asking them to leave. The shopkeepers – who say they’re asylum seekers rather than illegal immigrants – fear they will suffer similar violent attacks to those suffered by other immigrant communities.

A group of protestors gathers, demanding that South Africa should be for South Africans only. One woman tells Unreported World that black South Africans fought long and hard to gain their freedom that these benefits are now being stolen by illegal immigrants.

The team are then allowed to film on board a train returning 400 Zimbabwean illegal immigrants back to the border. Some are so desperate to remain, that they throw themselves from the moving train during the night. Almost all say they will be back in the country within a few days. Given the ever-worsening economic environment in Zimbabwe they say they have no other choice.

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US Economic Depression Collapse Bernanke Obama Bush Default Ron Paul End Fed David Walker Capitalism

The CIA world factbook keeps the 2007 estimations concerning US debt to GDP ratio
the figure shown is 60% , now it’s 90% and rising !

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt

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The only way to determine the gender of an African Grey is to check its DNA. What part do they take? A scraping, a feather or blood?

They can either do it with a blood sample or with feathers (freshly plucked by you). You will need a minimum of 5 feathers.

Try this website:
http://www.avianbiotech.com/SexingCenter.htm

Goodluck!

Me and my wife want to visit South Africa what is the safest city for white people I’m American and my wife is a Kiwi (New Zealand) we currently live in Christchurch, New Zealand and want to see South Africa someone told us Capetown is the safest what do you think?

Mike, believe me that race does not determine the risk of one being a victim of crime in SA, what does is not taking, mostly common sense, precautionary measures.

Here is a heldful link and there are many more :

http://www.ehow.com/how_2251861_travel-safely-south-africa.html?ref=fuel&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=ssp&utm_campaign=yssp_art

Cape Town is great and very popular with both locals and tourists, but like the rest of the world there are also no go areas, why limit yourself to only one city when SA offers so much more?

Here is a link that details the diversity of SA, decide what really interests you and plan a great vacation.

http://www.sa-venues.com/tourist_attractions_south_africa.htm

Enjoy your stay and have a great time.

I am doing a project on North Korea and need to find outjust how big of a part did north Korea play in global warming? source please? please try to avoid using CIA World Factbook.

North Koreans are much too poor to create much greenhouse gas emissions. In 1996 48% of the population were starving and many were eating twigs, bark and leaves to survive. In 1997 CO2 emmissions were (tonnes per capita):
North Korea 11.4 [this surprised me, I wonder what that nasty autocrat is doing?]
United States 20.1
Australia 17.2
Canada 16.6
Germany 10.4
UK 8.9
China 2.9
Cuba 2.3
Nicaragua 0.7
Zambia 0.3
Sudan 0.1
Yemen 0.1
World Total 6.6 Billion tonnes per year (with 6.2 billion people 2002)

And for goodness sake dont be fooled by this latest denialist email scam! Thousands of scientists have worked for many years on this, check out the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) or the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Board, for example. The Arctic is melting, the glaciers too, Tuvalu is being evacuated because the rising seas are washing their islands away, millions of Bangladeshis are also being displaced by the rising sea, how much evidence do people want ’cause hey sorry but thats just the tip of the iceburg! I am studying Sustainable Development at an Australian university.

I got a cd by them last saturday. It is called Edward The Great. That cd has only came out of the player 2 times. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

EVERYTHING! lol, but Bruce’s voice is amazing.

like the tea parties its automatically called a "klan gathering"? Are African Americans the only ones allowed to protest in this country without being called racists? Just curious to read others thoughts on this.

For those who have not heard this charge all you need to do is look at Lola’s avatar. It doesn’t matter if you heard it or not its there to see.

nuke …………..

I used to remember a time when Italy had one the most growing economies in Europe. Now i go on the CIA factbook and i see this:

The economy continues to grow by less than the euro-zone average and growth is expected to decelerate from 1.9% in 2006 and 2007 to under 1.5% in 2008.

Whats causing all this ??

Well, I live there 3 mths., out of the year. And I can tell you that Italy took a hit in 2002 when they took on the Euro Monetary. What happen was that when Italy converted from the Lira to the Euro, people cheated on the conversion. Eg… Let’s say a loaf of bread cost at the time 1Lira, (at the time equivalent to 50 cents.) They changed it over to 1Euro (1 dollar at the time) So everything doubled and salaries stayed the same. It should have changed just the number, instead they just changed the Monetary symbol. At the time other Countries had people from the Finance Dept., of their Countries go into stores and business and regulate the price so that this wouldn’t happen and people wouldn’t be taken advantage of. The problem is nobody ever did this for Italy. So basically businesses took advantage of the consumers and it has been hushes ever since. They are now realizing that this is a problem and are trying to regulate it. The problem is that the damage has been done. So right now the govt is working on a plan, but no one does anything about it. There is a saying in Italy, until you don’t touch the bread, then everything is ok., even if people are starving and there is a crisis with the govt. Once you touch the bread, when people can no longer afford bread, then that is when the citizens declare war on the govt. Sad I know!!!! And it’s just going to continue to get worse.