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South Africa by kingrd(m): 8:06pm On Oct 02, 2007
What has Nigeria gained for the huge support/assistance rendered to enable SA dislodge apatheid?

Permit me to list some of the steps Nigeria took to help liberate SA:
1. Compulsory deduction of percentage of workers salaries and donated same to SA support fund
2. BP was nationalized.
3. Nigeria was a key member of what was then known as 'Frontline States'

Today, getting a visa to SA for Nigerians is very hard. Multichoice, MTN and other SA companies operating in Nigeria do not treat national workers well.
For a long time our foreign policy was hinged on 'Africa is our centrepiece'. At 47, we need a paradym shift ===> match foreign policy with economic policy
Re: South Africa by Seun(m): 8:08pm On Oct 02, 2007
Stop trying to disguise your racism as nationalism. Leave the South Africans alone.
Re: South Africa by iykrion(m): 9:00pm On Oct 02, 2007
@poster,
Is the Republic of South Africa to be blamed for our leaders greed and short sightedness. Should their companies in Nigeria be run down because Nigeria Supported their quest for freedom? Is MTN and co to be blamed for our corrupt labour leaders blind eyes towards the plight of Nigerian workers?

Do you know how many Nigerians presently reside in South Africa? Are you suggesting that they should make their immigration policy porous because Nigeria assisted them during apartheid struggle?

Compatriot, South Africa is not in any way to be blamed concerning what has befallen Nigeria, after all we are still the "Giant of Africa" . Or don't you think so? grin
Re: South Africa by BigB11(m): 9:29pm On Oct 02, 2007
I say blame the leaders. These people are not focused, not competent and absolutely too busy stealing to understand the different between foreign policy and economic policy.
It is very sad.
Re: South Africa by BlackMamba(m): 1:02am On Oct 03, 2007
Seun:
Stop trying to disguise your racism as nationalism. Leave the South Africans alone.
I don't see the connection.
His points are not unreasonable, even if not valid from a S. African perspective.
Re: South Africa by smokie(m): 8:01pm On Nov 06, 2007
kingrd:

What has Nigeria gained for the huge support/assistance rendered to enable SA dislodge apatheid?

Permit me to list some of the steps Nigeria took to help liberate SA:
1. Compulsory deduction of percentage of workers salaries and donated same to SA support fund
2. BP was nationalized.
3. Nigeria was a key member of what was then known as 'Frontline States'

Today, getting a visa to SA for Nigerians is very hard. Multichoice, MTN and other SA companies operating in Nigeria do not treat national workers well.
For a long time our foreign policy was hinged on 'Africa is our centrepiece'. At 47, we need a paradym shift ===> match foreign policy with economic policy

Hope kingrd is still checking on this post.
As South Africans we're dealing with a whole lot of problems. The last thing we need is a guilt-trip from some Nigerian with an inferiority complex.
The reason that our multinationals come to your country and invest their money and expertise there is because Nigerians have refused, instead they save their money in offshore bank accounts and with their brains.
Nigeria might have hosted ANC refugees during the dark days of apartheid but we've never flooded your country to the extent that Nigeria's 419 scammers, drug dealers and petty criminals have streamed in SA after 1994, For example on any given day, in the major magistrate's courts in the city's you'll find a Nigerian appearing- most probably on a drug charge. This is not xenophobic, its fact.

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