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 Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 6:48pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
My friend who has been to Naija is here at this very moment and am very lucky that he visited me. Shud u want 2 knw something, he is available. He is the one who wrote the above post. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 6:44pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
CAMEROONPRIDE: Lol amazing thread.What have you been drinking? Palm wine!! This palm wino is causing troublooooo!!!! Infact it must be classified as one of the weapons of mass destruction to brain cells |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 6:32pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007:http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2796/4273457126_2b550ed2e2_z.jpg http://www.edindaba.com/gallery/boerewors2.JPG http://roadsafety.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/braai-dag.jpg |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 6:28pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: Everybody misses home when they're away.. so whats your point?Your countrymen do not seem to miss Nigeria once they come to SA. There is one living in my neighbourhood called Dominic, he is a teacher in one of the high schools in Soweto and since he came here in 1998 ever since then he never visited Nigeria. Besides he is a very nice guy, one of the few I quess and it looks to me that he settled, because he bought himself a property (house) and even acquired SA citizenship. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 6:09pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: People like mzauza and synderp just sit at home and eat pap..block heads..same goes for all their black counterpartsPap and boerewors ( SA sausage) and salads on the side. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 6:00pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
Capnd143: nice bro! Bt in a technical view of this; it is a direct acceptance of inferiority complex! Com on bro, you ar beta than this na! You are basicaly saying u worship the whites since you cant live without seeing them! No harm meant bro! RIDE ON, I LIKE YOUR RIDE!Nah!! Is just that I have many white friends majority of whom were classmates when I was a little boy. Besides that is the environment where I grew up am just used to see black, white, green, orange, etc, a rainbow before me. Now imagine if I wake up in Nigeria and do not get to see what I used to see back home. I will kill myself I tell you. Lol!! I laughed to death the other day when my friend related this story to me of how he missed the rainbow nation during his long visit to Nigeria. I guess this is one reason why South Africans do not want to leave SA at all. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 5:43pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
Perhaps Sheyie does not understand how BEE works, let us teach him; BEE is a policy that promotes the active participation of blacks in economy and as such it requires previously all whites owned companies to relinquish 26% of their shares to black South Africans. Nowadays in SA contracts are awarded to BEE compliant companies with adequate score points. The HDI requires that a company has to have a black or white female as a shareholder, a handicapped/disabled or any person coming from a previously disadvantaged background. Remember during Apartheid blacks were denied active participation in economy and only whites were allowed to partake in economic activities, such as owning businesses, better jobs, etc. Hence, the ANC is redressing the inequalities through the BEE policy to level matters. Black companies are preferred instead of white owned companies that do not have black ownership and even the companies Act conforms with the BEE stipulations. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 5:24pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
snydergp: Now what do you think BEE is because it says blacks should have the majority stake.Besides how will BEE be relevant in Nigeria if the whole country is dark. I wonder how will I manage to live in that situation where I do not get to see white men, Chinese, Indian, etc. No wonder Agaugust left Nigeria to America to experience a new atmosphere. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 5:16pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: That fortress and other malls i posted are owned by nigerians.. its ownership is not under BEE like yoursWho must own it if its not Nigerians, because you always see black wherever you go in Nigeria. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 5:13pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: They're cinemas not malls dummyI do not get you can you please explain yourself. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 5:01pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: Lol...apparently you've ran out of points... google Silverbird cinemas and see for your self...My friend am seeing much bigger and beautiful malls than those in Johannesburg. Our malls do not look like mosque and they meet international standard. They are not different from the ones I have seen in Alaska, New York, London and Manchester. There is no difference at all infact some of our malls are far better than the ones I have seen in Europe. When it comes to malls the rest of the Southern Hemisphere come to us and seek answers. Just ask Australia and New Zealand, their malls are not as well up to our standard. Like it or not when Americans see Sun City all of them come with an offer, but the problem is that they cannot afford it. Michael Jackson wanted to buy it but the numbers could not add up. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 4:49pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
souldust: south africa has poor sanitation just like any 3rd world country. I think we in nigeria glorify other africans too much. Any little thing, we would say, "look at ghana of yesterday..." "look at south africa..." just read about the poor sanitation in SAs public toilet.Stop lying we do not have any problems with sanitation. All the bucket and pit system has been successfully eradicated. Just only this piece can make you to distort information and conclude that we have a sanitation problems. For your information, every house in SA has clean running water, electricity and sewage system. Now the project that was not even finished can cause you to say that. Those toilets were not yet operational. They have always been there until they could be constructed completely and now because opposition parties wanted to score cheap political scores they blew it out of proportion to humble the ANC. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 4:35pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: Lol at the bolded, probably the reason why the afrikaners feel safe investing their money in nigeria.. be that has it may, I'm not disputing the fact that SA doesnt have businesses in nigeria.. Nigeria is big my friend, we have Nigerian companies that handles mall constructions like i posted above.. so why would your friend be saying nigeria doesnt have building materials? Hogwash i repeat!My friend, the way Nigeria build their malls is not up to the standard that shoprite wants, or any overseas retailers would want. Look at that mall above which you have attached it looks much like a mosque and there is nothing fantastic about it. The mall is supposed to attract people than scaring them, now imagine people going to that mall it will look as if they are going to attend the Islamic gathering of praising Allah. Nigeria alone has enough mosques and imagine the mall also taking the resemblance of a mosque. Come to think of it. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 4:23pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: You know i dont visit south african sites with biased opinions /info... post another one..I quote, there is a problem and I don't it's still a problem. By the way what do you want? |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 4:19pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: South africa has the highest number of drug junkies in Africa.. a nation with xenophobic fucktards ,paedophiles and thiefs..he pointed at benin lol.. I'm talking about all the provinces in south africa.. y'all lost cause..Who brings in drugs, isn't your Brothers who call themselves Naija man? Mmmmmmmmmmmm!!!! |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 4:16pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: You'll live longer ..err.. like plus 10years??In South Africa there are people who live with the virus for long now, way far longer than 10 years. ARV treatment is the answer but not a cure. People taking this treatment can live longer than HIV negative people, but the problem is that in other countries there is no kind of this treatment. That's why foreigners flock here under pretext of seeking asylum knowing that they were sick before they crossed the borders of SA and demand our government to offer them treatment. In SA we do not discriminate against those who are diseased like what other African countries do. I was very touched one day meeting with a Tanzania who claimed that his people wanted to kill him only because his wife died of Aids and now they were craving for his death. He was on ARV programme and working for NEW START a voluntary HIV testing NGO which visited our Home Affairs offices (my former employer) to encourage us to test. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 3:52pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 3:39pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: Not by south african construction company... So anything your friend says is hogwashWhat do you have to say about this; South Africa goes shopping These days South African businesses are everywhere in Nigeria, and trade between the two countries has jumped from $11 million to $11 billion in 11 years. By Leonard Lawal, Fortune (Fortune Magazine) -- The Palms shopping center in Lagos is the largest mall in sub-Saharan Africa. It's managed by a South African company, Broll, and most of its stores - Game, Shoprite, NuMetro, Nandos - are South African brands. The largest mobile-phone company in Nigeria? It, too, is South African: MTN, which has captured nearly 50% of the market. Indeed, in Nigeria these days South African businesses are everywhere. Entech, a South African engineering firm, is leading a $3 billion redevelopment of Lagos's Bar Beach and Victoria Island waterfront. Another South African firm, Group Five, is building a power station in the Niger River delta. And the largest tourism project in the country, in Tinapa, is a joint venture between Standard Bank, Broll, and Southern Sun - all South African firms. (Standard Bank also just swallowed Nigeria's IBTC bank.) A Khartoum boom, courtesy of China South Africa's invasion of Nigeria, which began as a trickle after the end of apartheid in 1994, has turned into a flood over the past five years. Trade between the two nations has jumped from $11 million in 1994 to more than $11 billion in 2005, the last year for which reliable statistics are available. And the number of South African firms doing business in Nigeria has increased from just four in 1999 to hundreds today. "They have chosen the sectors they intervened in very carefully," says Frank Aigbogun, publisher of Businessday, a leading financial daily in Lagos, which has Johnnic Communications, a South African media giant, as a partner. "They filled a void in the investment space in Nigeria. Remember that the Europeans and Americans, wearied by endless years of military rule, did not quite know how to respond to the evolving democratic environment." Most Western companies that invested in Nigeria focused on the lucrative oil sector, leaving huge swaths of the economy open to South African entrepreneurs. The pioneer, says Olusola Obadimu, executive secretary of the Nigerian-South African Chamber of Commerce, was South African cable company DSTV/Multichoice, which captured 95% of the satellite-TV subscription market in the 1990s. "No Western company will take the kind of risks they took," Obadimu says. "But their teams came down, felt the pulse of the populace, and they succeeded." MTN followed in Multichoice's wake a few years later - "They rode on that kahuna," as Obadimu puts it - when the government auctioned off mobile-phone bandwidth. "Western telcos were not interested for obvious reasons of lack of infrastructure," he says. "But South African firms knew of the success of DSTV/Multichoice, and they invested. It reflects the long-term vision of the government in Pretoria, which saw Africa as one trading bloc. It's a small country but highly industrialized, and they need new markets." A Texas company in Sudan South African leader Thabo Mbeki, whom former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo had befriended during the struggle against apartheid, won concessions from the Nigerian government to facilitate trade. Among them were agreements to protect South African firms against future nationalizations and to eradicate double taxation, meaning South African firms that pay taxes in Nigeria are exempt from paying taxes on profits repatriated to South Africa. Not all South Africans have been welcomed with open arms, and it's not uncommon to hear them described by Nigerians as "neocolonialists." There are complaints about price gouging and other unfair practices. MTN is a particular target. It took a boycott some years back to get it to charge customers by the second instead of rounding up to the next minute. And the Nigerian Senate recently rebuked MTN and other carriers for their high dropped-call rates. "These people are exploiting us," says Tokunbo, a Nigerian MTN engineer who asked to be identified by his first name, referring to South African businesses. "Western companies won't engage in some things these South African firms do in cahoots with our fellow Nigerian officials." MTN did not respond to requests for comment. None of that has lessened South Africa's investment offensive. South Africa's Eskom collects debts and runs the prepaid-card operations for the local energy monopoly, Power Holding Corp. of Nigeria, a notoriously inefficient company scheduled for outright sale. Ariva, another South African company, operates the national lottery, and Telkom is bidding for Multilink, a wireless-network provider. Even the ballots in this year's contentious elections were printed in South Africa. As Warren Trokis, a manager at Shoprite, a South African grocery chain in Lagos, explains the attraction, "Business is good here, and Nigeria is safer than South Africa. In South Africa armed robbers will take your money and kill you, but here in Nigeria, they will take your money and apologize." |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 3:27pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: Its always your biased friend same that said nigeria doesnt have materials to construct malls... SMH... y'all have issues...My friend that is the truth Shoprite looked all over Nigeria for a company that could construct shopping mall to an international standard and could not find any in Nigeria. So it was then another costs to hire a foreign company as shoprite needed to pay for accommodation, food, hire cars et al for those people. Then what would Shoprite do if they want the best quality. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 2:54pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
Henry120: http://savidnews.com/shoprite-to-open-store-soon-in-lokoja/How does that have any bearing to what I have said. There is no partnership whatsoever with Shoprite. Shoprite will just be a tenant and pay rent. It is not a must that shoprite must hire their premises if shoprite decides to build their premises can freely do so. Besides it does not rule out the reality that shoprite owns many malls in Nigeria. My friend was in Nigeria and their company was financed by Shoprite and the deal was made and finalised here in South Africa. The reason why shoprite opted for SA company was because of the shortage of skills in Nigeria to build international standard shopping malls, this was as I was told by my friend. I will link you to some of the web which will confirm what I have said. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 2:30pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
souldust: some parts of naija use the sewage system. The high brow areas. Other places use WC and septic tank. That is a bit more widely used, infact it is what i am using. NO WHERE in nigeria will you see a public toilet, either govt or private owned, where the toilets are not are not surrounded by walls. Go and find out. We also make mobile toilets. Ever heard of that? We make the decent DMK mobile toilets. Those toilets where also bought from us and used in south africa during the world cup. I am going to post links to show you.By the way it seems as if you are lost. What do you understand about public toilets? Let me teach you; Public toilets are those toilets you find in shopping malls, stadiums, sports complex, cinemas, taxi ranks, government departments and so on. They are there for everyone to use and some you even pay for them. I don't know what do you mean when you say there is no such thing in Nigeria, so what are you going to do if you do shopping or watching movies in cinema and suddenly you are pressed and you need to answer the call of nature. Perhaps you will run back home to ease yourself and come back shopping. Now let us come to open toilets. Open toilets was a saga to the ANC and the word "OPEN" was brought about by the opposition parties to bluff the ANC for its failer to provide the community with the quality service. Those toilets were still under construction and were not finished. What happened is that the BEE company that was granted a contract to construct those toilets misused funds and as such could not finish what they have started. The company ran away while the ANC was not doing anything to assess their work. It only came to wake up the ANC when community members started protesting that the project took long to finish as there were no alternative for them to ease themselves. My friend our stadiums are fully equipped to cater for all the spectators. FNB stadium which is in my neighbourhood about few kilometres from where I am has enough toilets which are sanitised daily and very clean. I don't know what are you talking about when you claim SA bought toilets from Nigeria. I attended world cup games and have never seen something like that where mobile toilets were used. Maybe somewhere else but not in our world class stadiums. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 1:57pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
Henry120: You are a dumbo. We have always had NITEL.Nah!! Is just that one of your countryman claimed that the reason MTN dominates your telecom industry is because it was the first one to open the doors of Nigerian network providers. I was just asking though. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 1:54pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
souldust: @msauza you made a blunder when you did some comparisms. Know that the cost of living in nigeria is far less than you have in SA. In most parts of Naija, one dollar can buy you three square meals. No wonder even though you earn more money in dollar, you still have the same problems we have here in naija thats why you are still seen as a developing country.Don't beat the bush, Nigeria cannot afford it. Unemployment insurance would only be a long term dream to be achieved. A country that cannot afford its citizens just a simple free medical health care and free education, how will it afford to give the unemployed some grants. In South Africa all children from 0-18yrs get grants if their parents are unemployed. That's why all pregnant foreigners flock here to have a hand on that money. This is because everybody born in South Africa by law should be granted SA citizenship and all benefits that every SA child must get. Soon we will offer every citizen free medical health insurance. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 1:41pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
souldust: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9045209-south-africa-open-air-public-toilets-angers-youth-leaderThat's why this is a concern to all South Africans, in other African countries it would not be viewed as a saga since majority of their citizens know nothing about sewage system. What they know is visiting the nearby jungle and help themselves there. If you show them sewage system, it will be like "wow!! What is this?" In SA is an insult to the government to use any form of toilet other than sewage system. Those toilet were built and the only thing left was the construction of walls and roof around their sewage buckets. That is how they are built. By the way in SA we are using sewage system built free of charge by the government. It is our right to demand it from the government. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 1:28pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
souldust: there were cell phones. We called them cellular cell phones.From where did they receive their network or signal? |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 1:23pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: in 5 years, y'all be infected with hivIt doesn't matter, in SA HIV is no longer a death penalty and our doctors are so much skilled and trained to manage HIV that those infected could lead a normal healthy lifestyle. That's why our brothers from other African nations take refuge and flog to SA the moment they are diagnosed with the disease from their various countries with the hope that they will receive the best medical care in SA to live longer. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 1:05pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
agaugust:This makes me laugh, so this means before MTN landed in Nigeria, there were no cellphones in the country. MTN is something of yesterday, not even far. All this while Nigeria did not have network provider. Just asking!!! Am appalled. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 12:54pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
Henry120: Now you are just being crazy. MTN was the first telecoms company to come to naija that's the reason, globacom came in, in 3rd place and then crashed down the prices of mobile telephony.Stop lying!! One of my friend who is a civil technician and whose construction company was contracted by shoprite to build one of the malls in Nigeria told me Nigerian businesses do not have partnership in those malls and neither do they have in SA franchises, shoprite built those malls 100% without any partnership. STOP LYING |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 12:40pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
sheyie2007: http://m.irinnews.org/Report/70538/SOUTH-AFRICA-Teenage-pregnancy-figures-cause-alarmThat's what I told you it is not to say teenage pregnancy does not happen in Nigeria or anywhere in the world. It is just that South Africans like to make noise about everything. Such in other countries could have been dealt with secretly and devolved to the responsibility of the parents. This is basically a perception of citizens of one country, SA view it as a crime while Conco DR will merely view it as a usual exercise. Like I told you a country to country differ on what do they describe as crime. Some countries would not arrest a husband for rap*ing his wife, even during apartheid it was not a crime to r*ape your wife. I've studied law and I know that legal statutes differ from country to country. What is classified as crime in SA might not be a crime in Nigeria. Like p*eeing on the public is a crime in SA, but in other countries might be viewed as a usual exercise. Drinking in public might not be a crime in NGR, so on and so on. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 12:13pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
Henry120: Msauza, what are you, stupi*d, how can you say that the average age for females to bear children in nigeria is 12-15years. You must be deranged and very daft.I hate doing this because it comes with embarrassment, but since you are compelling me to quote I will do just that. There we go; http://www.ageofconsent.com/nigeria.htm http://www.avert.org/aids-nigeria.htm http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/igbo-marriage.htm And now you see where is the problem. In Nigeria girls as young as 13 years by traditional law are allowed to marry and have children. Now that in SA will make international headline news of paedophile agenda. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 12:02pm On Mar 06, 2013 |
Now the ANC has proposed for unemployment grants. This means that every citizen of South Africa will have an income, employed or not. It will be a monthly exercise. Moreover the NHI, which is the national health insurance and about to be implemented soon will afford every citizen to have their medical insurance and be admitted to any medical facility, private or public irrespective of whether they are employed or not. Have medical aid or not, this initiative will be way better than free medical care that will soon phase out. Just imagine how many rands do we spend other than buying big Rambo machines that will have no bearing to our welfare. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: Who Has The Strongest Military In Africa? by Msauza(m): 11:50am On Mar 06, 2013 |
If there is a need whatsoever that SA requires to expand and transform their military to a formidable force in 5 years, I don't think that will ever be the challenge for SA, since they have such a huge reserves of revenues. Just think of these, not all countries manage to build their citizens houses and still offer them grants and pensions every month. Imagine how many Jets and Submarines can we buy from all that money. |
also numbers play a lot in a front despite what you guys are saying a small army will have too much difficulty to defeat a big one. Also NAIJA has a lot of money to buy New equipment or update his equipement when they need so.
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