₦airaland Forum

pendo89:
^^ Assessement focused on

1.Safety & Rule of Law,
2.Participation & Human Rights,
3.Sustainable Economic Opportunity
4.Human Development.

My point exactly,if Abuja alone was a country,it will also be number one in Africa.It is easy to manage a small ppulation than a bigger one.Hence I'm saying this countries have failed their people.There should not be a poverty in countries with this small population.

Too much Nairaland e go shine my eyes'o.You dey vex now?
I no fit talk again? I dey tire for oyibo talk talk

If you add the population of all the top four countries,it add up to 3,9 million people.Nigeria cannot compete with Botswana based on the challenges that both countries faces.In fact in countries such as Seychells ,Mauritius,Botswana and Cape Verde the level of poverty should be zero percent.

Personally I think this counties are a failure.

morpheus24:
E be like say aloy dey live for SA. everytime na so SA news. Wetin consine you sef

Omo both of you are like that'o.The only difference is that you are more knowledgeable and a bit balanced,where as Aloy is spitting fire all the time,he hate SA with passion,if he dey get a bad story for SA,he go paste it for Nairaland.I dey think he's full of big bakasi.

Deep Soul:
And here you are with 1,770 posts on a Nigerian site. At this rate, you'll run out of saliva, spitting at every comment made by a Nigerian. And guess what happens after that? Instant death!

How can you not like Nigerians simply because "they steal your women and your jobs"! When you get some swagger and get smart, that will stop happening.

The spirit of survival is inherent in us. No other African country comes close. We do not have handouts given to us by our government. Yet we find a way to survive. Hate us or love us, u can't ignore us

That swagger is responsible for the regular butchering of innocent kids and their pregnant mother's in Jos.
That swagger that makes your type internationally known as scammers and druglords.
That swagger that makes you and their kinds to paddle small boats to the promise land,Europe,risking your life in the process.
That swagger that allow 1% of your population to milk all your resources.

I will tell you the only good thing that is noticeable about Nigeria,it is its overpopulation,and this because of lack of family planning.Anything else is just a pipe dreams.

manchy7531:
Thank God am a Nigerian and not Ghanian,Congolese or South African , lol

And those of us who are not,thank him for not making us Nigerians.You don't know how nice and blessed it feel not to be a Nigerian.The only people who speak highly of Nigerians are Nigerians themself,people spit after they pass.

kodewrita:
The bolded suggests some longstanding issues you have with him However i'll say this again,

South African Interests equal to Not Equal To Chinese Interests.

I am happy that we both agree that there is interests in each other from this countries,equal or not is another matter.

@ Kenifer

I am not a defender of China here,but I want you to give me one major country that have high moral fibre.That put moral interest before economic one.
America is build on innocent blood,they're like the Romans they occupy by force.From wiping out american indians to slavery to supporting rebels and overthrowing legitimates goverments to invading countries.
Americans have killed more people inthis world than China or any other country.What America and their allies do and say are too different things,they talk peace,hman rights,democracy and other morally acceptable things while commit murder and other immoral acts on the other end.

I dont hate Americans,I'm just saying be careful that you don't choose sides when all sides are wrong

kodewrita:
^^^^ So now that you are free from discrimination, it is time to repay the world by commiting the same crime. He probably never spoke against apartheid because he was too busy fighting his own battles too.
Dont make it a tribal thing. South africa goofed on this one.

All I said is that South Africa just like any country looks after its own interests,we have allies that where formed during our dark days and we are loyal to them as they have been to us.

Tutu have his own issues,South Africa knows it and Dalai's visit was just an opportunity for him to get the support.I personally like Tutu,but he is too emotional,too forgiving and try hard to please white,he likes to play for the crowd.

Are you aware that Dalai was going to be in the country at the time when our Deputy President was in a official visit to China? 
http://siteground243.com/~hiram155/2011/10/05/china-south-africa-sign-deals-on-mineral-resources-and-financial-cooperation/

I personally think South African goverment did well by delaying granting Dalai Lama a visa.This was Tutu's political trap for the ANC and Jacob Zuma.Tutu hate Zuma with passion,he started 'praying' for his downfall since Zuma forced Mbeki to resign from presidency.
He called Zuma names and made the whole thing emotional,personal and some even suspect that it is also tribal,since he is Xhosa with Mandela and Mbeki.
During the last election he didn't vote.He knew the position of the ANC regarding their committment to the Chinese and all he wanted to do was to expose them,and he succeded.

And also most people here forget that China and Russia played a massive role in helping the ANC during apaartheid days.Apaartheid South Africa was a big Allies of the British and Americans and ANC possible allies could only be the communist countries.Most of our current leaders studied in Cuba,Russia and China.
ANC militaty wing Umkhonto We Sizwe was trained and supplied by this communist countries.

Point I'm trying to make is that China,Russia and Cuba relationship with South Africa is an old one.And let's not forget that during the cold war,apaartheid years for us,Dalai was very close to the Americans and the west.And during his visits to the west Dalai never spoke against apaartheid.

OgidiBoy:
^^^ Igbo women are good with politics too

Then Igbo woman are like Chuck Norris.

Yes Khadaffi is a dictator but he did lots of good than bad for Libyian people.
During his regime,he made sure that,

1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law.
3. Home considered a human right in Libya – Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 Dinar (US$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25% of Libyans are literate. Today the figure is 83%.
6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kick-start their farms – all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need in Libya, the government funds them to go abroad for it – not only free but they get US$2,300/mth accommodation and car allowance.
8. In Libyan, if a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidized 50% of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amount to $150 billion – now frozen globally.
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession as if he or she is employed until employment is found.
12. A portion of Libyan oil sale is, credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gave birth to a child receive US$5,000
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $ 0.15
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While the cost of electricity in South Africa is among the world's lowest, the country's strong economic growth, rapid industrialisation and a mass electrification programme led, by early 2008, to demand for power outstripping supply.
Eskom has embarked on a massive programme to upgrade and expand the country's electricity infrastructure.

These plans include spending a projected R343-billion over five years to fund a new generation of power stations, with the first due to come on stream in 2013.

ESKOM, with a generating capacity of 35 200 MW from 20 power stations, is one of the largest utilities in the world, and generates approximately 98% of South Africa's electricity.Eskom supplies electricity to Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana and Namibia as well as exporting to Mozambique and Zimbabwe.

http://www.eskom.co.za/c/article/8/arnot-power-station/

Its all lie,if Mandela die you wont hear it first on the BB's but you'll hear our screams from South!

Tata is alive,and God have blessed him with a long life to make up for the years he lost in prison.

Long Live Tata Mandela Long Live! Amandla!

morpheus24:
That monkey head Malema needs to go back to school for training on CULTURAL SENSITIVITY. I'l do him some good

I can't belief that I'm saying this but I agree with you on this one.

^All I can say Mo is Africa is the future and South Africa is a model that all Africans must copy if they want to be succesfull.

God I love Africa and being South African is just the cherie on top.

folahann:
You're only trying to make use of your white elephants stadiums that were used for world Cup. Everybody knows that, so it's a mutual benefit thing.
You are going to get to use the stadiums laying fallow so that they don't grow into forests

I can't belief you're buying that useless BBC report on our stadiums being white elephants.
All our Stadiums are used by both Soccer and Rugby clubs,and they're all in good conditions.
Most of this Stadiums are not run by goverment they were leased to private companies.
Each venue is a business and it is run to make profit.

Football is not even a number one sport in South Africa,we are a sporting nation,with a wide range of sporting codes that we excel at.Those stadiums where not build only for football but all kind of sports like rugby,cricket ,athletics and football.

We are hosting the 2017 AFCON anyway,by swaping with Libya was just a good gesture that we extended to the Libyan people.If Nigeria take over the hosting ,Libya might not host this in a long time,and as I have mentioned earliar Libyans need the 2017 more than anyone else for the above obvious reasons.

First your goverment recognised the rebel as a legitimate goverment(I wonder how will you feel if South Africa recognise Boko Haram or MEND).Now you're blocking the arrangement we made with Libya for the hosting of AFCON 2013.

South Africa once again was trying to help Libyan people,after this civil war they will need to rebuild the country both its infrustructure and its people's unity and that project was going to start now till 2017.
What happened to big brother Africa,I thought Nigeria was a bigger brother.

This is another ploy by Nato to bomb Harare.

My-Key:
Please tell me that you are worried about the future of your country when Julius Malema finally takes over? I would be very worried if I were you , luv

No South Africa is worried about the future of South Africa,except if one is a white racist who is stuck in the past.
(Since I don't know you,I will assume that you are a Nigerian there fore don't know much about South Africa and its politics except what you hear on BBC and other European media.)

When Mandela(the big terrorist according to white racists and BBC's) took over South Africa,the same people who are making noise about Malema were saying Mandela will destroy South Africa,they said blacks are not capable of running succesfully a country,fast forward to 2011.South Africa is still standing strong,blacks have even made those racist whites even more richer by any world standards.

South Africa is not a one man country,Zuma was suppose to be one of our worse President and since he is failing to do that now they're moving their attention to a 28 years old Malema.Malema is youth leader,before him there were Mbalula,Gigaba,Mokaba and other other who never went on to became presidents,and they were all making noises,but it seems Malema is 'liked' by the media.

Maybe Malema is in this 'position' because the racist media wanted to expose him based on his education but it back fired,he exposed them,he won most of his arguments and debates and won more popularity amongst people.

Maybe when the time come,in 30 years when he become the president,then racists should find their way back home,I think a 30 years notice is enough.Dont you think?

South Africa's boxing champs

Between 1927 and 2001, 35 South African fighters won a total of 49 world boxing titles. The number of South African world champions peaked in the 1990s. The country had six world champions in 1995, five the following year and six in 1997. In 1998 the number stood at eight, and in 1999 at five world title holders.
Before the advent of more than one world body, Vic Toweel was South Africa's only world champion, winning the bantamweight title in 1950. The only other boxer who came close was Willie Smith, who won the British version of the world bantamweight title when he defeated Teddy Baldock in October 1927.

Multiple title holders
South Africa has, however, also produced multiple title holders. Among these was Brian Mitchell, who won the World Boxing Association title in September 1986 and the International Boxing Federation title in 1991 in the junior lightweight division.

Dingaan Thobela won three titles: the World Boxing Organisation and WBA lightweight titles, in September 1990 and June 1993 respectively, as well as the World Boxing Council middleweight title in September 2000.

Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala is the only South African boxer to have won four titles in three different divisions: he won the WBO flyweight title in May 1993, the WBO light flyweight title in November 1995, as well as the junior flyweight titles under the International Boxing Association in July 1997 and the World Boxing Union in February 2001.

Wood carver turns champion
Vic Toweel, a 23-year-old wood carver from Benoni, became world champion in May 1950 when he convincingly outpointed Manuel Ortiz in Johannesburg. Toweel won most of the 15 rounds to become South Africa's first world bantamweight champion.

Brian Mitchell, probably one of the best South African boxers of his era, won the WBA junior lightweight title in 1986 - and defended it a world record 12 times before retiring in 1991.

Road warrior
As South Africa was isolated internationally because of its apartheid policies, Mitchell became a true ‘road warrior’, defending his title almost exclusively abroad.

He finished his career with 46 wins, one loss and two draws. His 12 successful defences of the junior lightweight title remain the record in that division to this day.

Mitchell is now a successful boxing trainer with a stable of promising young boxers. He has guided at least two boxers to world titles, including Namibian Harry Simon and South African Cassius Baloyi.

Slick-punching Thobela
Thobela's amateur career saw him win 80 times and lose just three bouts. His first professional fight pitted him against Quinton Ryan, a bout he won in four rounds. The slick-punching Thobela was held to a draw in his fourth fight, but proceeded to win 25 fights in a row over the next five years, registering 19 wins by knockout.

The Rose of Soweto, as he is affectionately known by his fans, became the first South African to win a WBO belt when he beat Mauricio Aceves in 1990. He made two defences of his WBO junior lightweight title, relinquished it in 1991, and fought for the WBA version of the title, which he won in a rematch against Tony Lopez at Sun City in 1993. Their first encounter in Sacramento in the same year had been controversially declared a draw.

The fastest heavyweight
Gerrie Coetzee was one of the fastest heavyweight boxers South Africa ever produced. Coetzee first won the national lightweight title as a 13-year-old amateur when he punished 16-year-old Hennie Colyn.

In his 192 amateur fights, Coetzee lost only seven, three of these against his sworn enemy, Kallie Knoetze. Coetzee became national heavyweight champion at 21 when he fought Mike "The Tank" Schutte, who was disqualified in the sixth round for dirty tricks, giving the title to Coetzee.

20 years after Coetzee won the WBA heavyweight title, with a tenth-round knockout of Michael Dokes, South Africa again had a boxer it could call heavyweight champion of the world. Southpaw Corrie Sanders shocked the boxing world when he knocked out the highly regarded Wladimir Klitschko early in the second round to win the WBO version of the title. At age 37, Sanders' biggest win came late in his career.

THE CHAMPIONS

Willie Smith - bantamweight, British version (1927)
Vic Toweel - bantamweight, Universal (1950)
Arnold Taylor - WBA bantamweight (1973)
Peter Mathebula - WBA flyweight (1980)
Gerrie Coetzee - WBA heavyweight (1983)
Piet Crous - WBA junior heavyweight (1984)
Brian Mitchell - WBA junior lightweight (1986)
Welcome Ncita - WBA & IBF junior featherweight (1990)
Dingaan Thobela - WBO lightweight (1990)
Brian Mitchell - IBF junior lightweight (1991)
Ditau Molefyane - WBF junior lightweight (1993)
Jacob Matlala - WBO flyweight (1993)
Dingaan Thobela - WBA lightweight (1993)
Vuyani Bungu - IBF junior featherweight (1994)
Mbulelo Botile - IBF bantamweight (1995)
Phillip Holliday - IBF lightweight (1995)
Gary Murray - WBU welterweight (1995)
Jacob Matlala - WBO junior flyweight (1995)
November Ntshingila - IBC featherweight (1995)
Francois Botha - IBF heavyweight (1995)
Thulani Malinga - WBC super middleweight (1996)
Sakhumzi Magxwalisa - WBU super flyweight (1996)
Mzukisi Sikali - WBU junior flyweight (1996)
Cassius Baloyi - WBU junior featherweight (1996)
Lehlohonolo Ledwaba - WBU bantamweight (1996)
Jacob Matlala - IBA junior flyweight (1997)
Peter Malinga - WBU welterweight (1997)
Patrick Quka - WBU bantamweight (1997)
Corrie Sanders - WBU heavyweight (1997)
Thulani Malinga - WBC super middleweight (1997)
Zolani Petelo - IBF mini flyweight (1997)
Cassius Baloyi - WBU featherweight (1998)
Thulani Malinga - WBF super middleweight (1998)
Mzukisi Sikali - WBU junior bantamweight (1998)
Simon Ramoni - IBO super bantamweight (1998)
Mpush Makambi - IBO middleweight (1998)
Jacob Mofokeng - WBU cruiserweight (1998)
Lindi Memani - WBU strawweight (1998)
Masibulele Makepula - WBU junior flyweight (1998)
Lehlohonolo Ledwaba - IBF junior featherweight (1999)
Sebastiaan Rothmann - WBU cruiserweight (1999)
Wele Maqolo - WBF mini flyweight (1999)
Zolile Mbityi - IBO flyweight (1999)
Peter Malinga - IBO welterweight (1999)
Masibulele Makepula - WBO junior flyweight (2000)
Mike Barnardo - WBF heavyweight (2000)
Dingaan Thobela - WBC super middleweight (2000)
Mbulelo Botile - IBF featherweight (2000)
Jacob Matlala - WBU junior flyweight (2001)
Corrie Sanders - WBO heavyweight (2003)
MULTIPLE TITLE HOLDERS
Brian Mitchell: WBA (1986), IBF (1991) junior lightweight.
Dingaan Thobela: WBO (1990), WBA (1993) lightweight; WBC middleweight (2000).
Peter Malinga: WBU (1997), IBO (1999) welterweight.
Jacob Matlala: WBO flyweight (1993); WBO light flyweight (1995); IBA junior flyweight (1997); WBU junior flyweight (2001).
Thulani Malinga: WBC super middleweight (1996 & 1997); WBF super middleweight (1998).
Cassius Baloyi: WBU junior featherweight (1996); WBU featherweight (1998).
Lehlohonolo Ledwaba: WBU bantamweight (1996); IBF junior featherweight (1999).
Mzukisi Sikali: WBU junior featherweight (1996); WBU junior bantamweight (1998).
Masibulele Makepula: WBU junior flyweight (1998); WBO junior flyweight (2000).
Mbulelo Botile: IBF bantamweight (1995); IBF featherweight (2000).

More pictures at this link http://www.sowetanlive.co.za/news/2011/07/26/snow-in-sa-today-photos#8

Light snow fell over Johannesburg on Monday afternoon as another cold front baffled people across the country.
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2011/08/15/cold-front-brings-snow-to-johannesburg

SAGirl:
It was not snowing in Johannesburg yesterday, it was just hail :-) Everyone just got excied over nothing,

I was also told that it was not really a snow,but then it was icy and white,who cares

But SAGirl,we did have some real snow in Eastern Cape some weeks backs remember? here are some of the pics.