solomon111: Lol!
Dreamer.
You will tell me,which democracy china practices.
SA does not even influence Africa beyond the southern-african region.

ekt_bear: Though truth be told, the same is true of France and the UK. It should be something like:

1. US
2. EU
3. China
4. India

maybe Russia or Brazil as the 5th. Japan too, perhaps?

Those are the big dogs on this planet.

ekt_bear: If you want an "African" voice, then choose Nigeria. Since it arguably has a more significant impact on the world economy than SA does, and this gap will only increase over time (since Nigeria's growth rate >>>> SAs)

Msauza:

You are spot on chief. Nigeria, my father's country of birth is the most populous country on the continent. It is the fastest growing economy in the entire continent. The question however arises, is Nigeria a stable democracy? What is it that the world has to learn from Nigeria other than terrorists activities? Even though Nigeria performs well in terms of Africa's markets, that country does not show any signs of developments. The last time I was in Nigeria was back in 2008 when we went to visit our granny in Enugu. The conditions of roads, services, sanitation, power supply, health, etc were bad as hell and had never improved ever since, thus cannot compared to centurion, Pretoria where I am based. Both my parents are based in Sundown, Jozi where my father is a lecturer. My older sister once risked to live in Nigeria, but returned back just in 3 months as she could not stand it any longer.

panafrican:
Why not Nigeria or DRCongo that have more people than South Africa? This is another insult and racist act that proves these so -called western democracies only push for a white agenda. Anyway, what would all this change ? There was a sell -out ghanean Kofi Anan being the boss of the U.N ,still europeans were having fun destroying african countries through the U.N security council resolutions. One saw how Chirac and Sarkozy used the U N to kill thousands of ivorians on purpose to put in power their Puppet Allassane Ouattara.


Africans, South americans and all other third world countries should just leave this net of corruption and arrogance called U.N.

morpheus24: If they give SA the seat, don't really see much coming out of it really. South Africa to stick to builing its coalition with Comesa and the BRIC countries and leave the UN issue alone.

andrewza:

Population is not a factor. The DRC is still in shambles and nigeria is a nation that brings only 2 things to the table crude oil and population and even nigeria is facing internal security problems.

Msauza:

I'm a South African/ Nigerian born of a Nigerian (Igbo) father. Even my father (prof) also admits that when SA sneezes, the rest of the continent catches the cold. SA has much of an influence in Africa than we can ever Imagine, the only challenges though are former french colonies which seem not to support SA in most political issues. Most of the refugees in SA are from the latter countries, perhaps, this could be the reason why they do not support SA because it provides protection and security to those who want to run such babaric regimes into complete anarchy. SA currently occupy the most important position in the AU, so my fellow countryman, how can you say that SA does not have influence beyond SADC?

Missy89:
No African country will get a permanent seat in the council. EVER