On 2016-01-11 19:27:17 Alpine01 said:
6) when realizing that SA can be a first world country by virtue of its location, natural resources and diversity.
Objection your honor !!!
SA is already a first world country.
The infrastructure is there.
We have roads that rival Europe and the US, we have high speed internet similar to the EU mandated minimum speeds and it's getting better. We have high tech development. We have world class hospitals available (although not public). we have the manufacturing sectors.
We need to stop considering SA as some backwater, shit hole in the arse of Africa because I have been there to that place... and SA is a lot better on every level.
Other then the pound, the euro and really old buildings what has the EU got that SA doesn't ?... Security and effective Government... the 2 most important things to any "first world nation", without those nothing will ever be achieved.
For example, If the education ministry actually pulled its thumb out of it's arse it could actually achieve its mandate. same goes for most of the portfolios...