However strenuous our leaders’ efforts to steer our continent out of its morass of underdevelopment, poverty, disease and civil strife, their strategy is based on such shaky assumptions that they are likely to achieve little progress.
Artist Mbongeni Ngema’s controversial <i>AmaNdiya</i> song about South African Indians brings to mind another song — by a Rwandan musician, Simon Bikindi. It was released just before the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Bikindi sang about the Tutsi enemies, who had never been true Rwandans anyway.
The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (Nepad) initiative has been described as the only plan with a realistic chance of helping Africans get to grips with, and find solutions to, the many problems that dog their continent.
Izegwire* has found the South African experience particularly bad.
Foreigners seeking asylum or refugee status in South Africa face many hours in the overcrowded waiting rooms at home affairs.