S.Africa: As I predicted: Black Poverty doubled since 1994

[For years I have been saying that the blacks who are poor, will increase in number. Of course people outside Africa must think I'm talking rubbish. But it's a fact. And here is a survey conducted by the Institute of Race Relations.

I have said that the new Govt will make a few super-rich. Then there are others who benefit from the increase in salaries, but they do so at the expense of the MANY who lose their jobs COMPLETELY - FOREVER - millions of them.

So forget all this nonsense and political rubbish about the new black Govts helping the black poor. Its nonsense. It has NEVER happened yet. They never can help the poor. They increase the number of poor.

As ironic as this may sound, Colonialism and Apartheid, because of its "two tier economy" - was better able to look after the poor. One day, people will realise that those systems might have oppressed some blacks, but in many ways, those systems actually helped raise the majority from even more abject poverty.

I am actually sad to see that nobody has ever properly studied or discussed in a rational and objective way the "two tier economies" which the Whites in Africa created. Those two tier economies were really basic, and simple, and they were very cheap to run. But those two tier economies were creations of simplistic brilliance. Those two tier economies may have benefitted hundreds of millions of blacks and made their lives better than they would otherwise have been. Those blacks were still very poor, but they were by no means as poor as they would otherwise have been if left to themselves. And that is why, CONTRARY TO ALL PREDICTIONS, when Colonialism and Apartheid were removed, the MAJORITY OF BLACKS BECAME POORER. You will see this all across Africa. Entire books on economics should be dedicated to studying these clever little tricks used by the Colonial rulers of Africa because there are billions of poor people around the world who could benefit from the simplistic, cheap methods we created. The two tier economy works, and it resulted in incredibly fast growth in African countries which matched the best in the world. If these systems had been left in place, Africa, and blacks as a whole would have been much better off than they are now. One day people will realise just what an awesome contribution White people made to Africa - to the majority of black people in a way that has never since been matched again - not even with US$25 billion in AID per annum. With ZERO AID, we achieved what the Western world and United Nations never could come close to - and never will.

Black majority rule has never yet benefitted the majority despite tons of rhetoric to the contrary. The facts on the ground are the complete opposite. It has to do with the socialism and favouritism - which, as I have said, never benefits anyone except for the very few at the top of the political pyramid. I wrote a lot about this in my book, "Government by Deception" - which many people outside Africa may think is a fairy tale. But it is closer to the truth than anything else that is out there. Jan]

Growing inequality in SA: Survey

CAPE TOWN - While South Africa’s black middle class is growing, so too are the ranks of the country’s poor, the SA Institute of Race Relations said on Tuesday.

“Increases (in levels of inequality) were most dramatic for the African population, which saw levels... rise by 21 percent... since 1996,” the institute said in a statement issued to mark the publication of its annual South Africa Survey.

Such growing inequality was in part an indication of the growth of a black middle class.

Of concern, however, was that “such growth has been accompanied by an increase in poverty among the lowest income groups”.

The survey showed the proportion of people living on less than a dollar a day -- the measure of absolute poverty -- had more than doubled since 1994.

“Using a different measure of poverty, 50 percent of South African households lived on less than R2 899 per month for a household of eight in 2004, up from 40 percent in 1994.”

According to the statement, the survey’s figures showed that while progress was being made in the upper and middle classes of South Africa’s society, “the poor were being left behind”. – Sapa.

Source: The Citizen

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