SOUTH AFRICA’S OLDEST PAPERS SOCKS IT TO THE PC BRIGADE

“The fact that Africa is viewed with scepticism should come as no surprise, even to the politically-correct brigade. As this column argued on May 16, the footage of Africa today is no different from that captured on film and screened as Africa Addio 40 years ago. With 380 million people mired in extreme poverty, civil strife in every region, an almost total lack of governance - to say nothing of drought, debt and disease - Africa is like a terminal patient: doses of relief aid and sympathy are about all that can be attempted.

The fact that Africa has nothing to show for the $300 billion in aid it has received over the past 40 years - 17 times America's Marshall Aid package to Europe after World War 2 - surely speaks volumes. Politically-correct journalists snidely refer to the G8 as the "elite". But they forget that three of the G8 members - Germany, Russia and Japan - were all but ruined by World War 2. Yet they have bounced back without much more than a sniff of the aid Africa has been given.”

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