African politics.

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  1. Brett Nortje

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    The great lakes of africa, near the lake of burundi, where a lot of people fish and drink the water, there seems to be a problem with burundi cooperating with the rest of the countries on the border of 'the great lake.'

    Regarding fishing, burundi is landlocked, and only has this lake to fish in. if they were to put into the center of the lake a huge cage, where they could grow their own fish, in fact, where every african neighbor could groom their own fish, then there would be less fighting over this resource - a little trick i learned from oceanography, if i remember correctly.

    Then as for dumping of 'toxic stuff' into the lake, this coul dbe countered by dumping this refuse onto farm land, through a pipeline. this pipeline could be cheap to build, if they were to merely take a bulldozer and 'dig a river' towards these places that need water and 'biomass waste.' it is a known fact that we excrete some good things for the land, yes?
     
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    In kenya, there is a health care strike going on. the doctors want more pay, and better working conditions. this merely calls on them to be resourceful, this service part of it, as, they could, for incubators, lay a babies cot with a electric blanket for the incubator replacement. for patients in the hospital, where there is not enough space, they could also lay a tent roof outside, and have them lie under there, in ten man tents or so? this would see them close to the hospital, and they could open the windows to get equipment for them to use. there are many other ideas out there, and i am sure the doctors could implement them with some sort of justification and certification from the hospital senior staff.

    As for their pay increase, they are demanding double their pay. this could be upped by having so many patients in the hospital, and, of course, upping the cost of services, which insurance pays for, for the wealthy, and the state pays for for the common people. this would mean that in common hospitals, they would merely be tying money up into the system, where the medication that costs more, is paid for by the state, and that would mean the doctors could be paid more, because, the state will be buying the medicine, which means the hospital pays more money, the doctors pay more taxes as they are in a new tax bracket, and that money will enrich the retail and services sector, where they will see more taxes gained through more being out there to gather moss with regular monies.

    So, the more they spend, the more they make back in taxes.
     
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    There is a need for peace in africa, as, the reasons for war are because the people of africa are so 'intolerant' of each other. i say this because i think that most conflicts begin with the people trying to fight over resources, and, allowing only those that share a common background with them to eat and drink with them, of course.

    So, to make sure that everything is given a chance to be discussed before a conflict erupts, maybe soldiers from each border should take up living with each other soldiers over the border? this would mean soldiers from country [a] would share bunks with those in country , and vice versa. this would definitely make them think twice before fighting, having 'the enemy' so close by.

    This would also lead to friendships and camaraderie with the the soldiers getting to relax, with the living conditions being made better, maybe even playing sports and stuff while before they had to be ready for an attack by the enemy?

    Maybe they could even cut back on soldiers, as there would be less need for them? maybe they could even all agree to put the weapons on the border, with two padlocks from each general to get the weapons? the prospect of not having any surprise attacks would mean that the focus could be taken off security and given to other areas in parliament too.
     
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    There are problems in the gambia with the president jammeh, who lost an election last year, and there is supposed to be a new president to be sworn in soon. as afar as i am concerened, the whole parliament should ignore jammeh and continue as if the leader was the new president. this would see the countries people and leaders following the new president, while jammeh sits in parliament, stroking his hair, and having no authority. if the army gets involved, they can just ignore them too, simply continuing their business.

    All the new president needs is to be in charge of the country without the permission of jammeh. if the soldiers are all for their country first, is the country the people of the leaders? is the people they fight for in need of help, or is the leader in need of help? there is a new leader, for the people, and they need to support the new leader, elected by the people, for themselves and the people, who are the country.
     
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    There is an old saying; "as the rich get richer, so the poor get poorer." this being true, means that africa and the world should move away from value added tax and bring back general sales tax. this will make things like bread and milk cheaper, while the rich that get richer will be able to afford the same things too. as for luxury goods, that the rich buy anyway, they will see a higher profit for the state as these things will have more tax placed on them.

    How will this affect the economy? well, if in america, more then eighty percent of the income tax comes from the wealthy only, then the sales tax on goods means they will be milked even more. but, what do the rich spend their money on?

    If the rich spend their money on the best appliances and assets, then they will see even more of their money slipping away. it has always been the intent of the state to take money from the rich, as they have more, and in america some of the wealthy say it is okay to tax them more, or, for them to contribute to charities, yes? if they were to, instead of contributing to charities, be taxed directly into welfare and social services, then all would be better.
     
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    In africa and the near east, the easiest way to gather people to you is through sermons on sharia law. this speaks to people in a way, as if their whole moral perspective was at risk with the way they handle themselves, as, it was decreed by mohammed that sharia will rise, yet it has not, of course.

    This is why the state should play an active role in surveys to find why the people want it and are ready to join militias to fight for it. this would make people think about their lives, and, hopefully, they would find life is the way they want, regarding religion, at least.

    If it was found that the people want these laws, then maybe some of them can be slowly implemented? i am sure the leaders would, as they are also muslim, find that their own ways would be better if some of these laws were carried out, yes? it is common for the leaders to submit to the ways of the west, and, this often means immoral acts, mixed with african brutality and determination, could lead to a terrible set of encounters, resulting in, for lack of a better word, an insurgency.

    So, if the people want it, and the leaders see themselves living in a world they create and craft for the people, seeing themselves as prophets of mohammed, then they could carry out these surveys and change the laws and decrees of the land to be more like sharia law. the zealots must bear in mind that this takes time, but, maybe it is a reality that the leaders wish to give to them? i am sure there are some leaders that would like these things, but fear reprisals from the west, or, that the west would cease to do business with them, yes? this would only mean less business from businessmen that are religious - not many of them - and sanctions that would not affect them domestically in africa.

    Of course, the west does not mess with suadi arabia, where sharia is common, so what is to fear? the leaders should weight up the options for themselves - no insurgencies for as long as these laws are in place, or, the affects of putting them in place?
     
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    When it comes to service delivery, i think something is massively wrong. i live in south africa, and there are fifty one million people living in south africa presently. if each person was to receive thirty thousand thousand rand's worth of services in a year, the cost would come to 300,000,000,000.00 rand or three hundred billion rand's services a year. put into american dollars, it would cost 15,000,000,000.00 or fifteen billion dollars worth of services. this means that half of the countries economy is going... somewhere else! this figure includes salaries for those earning fifty thousand rand a year or so.

    So, if we were to stop the current rate of corruption from continuing, which is apparent, we should halve the amounts allocated to each department, at least. this would mean massive amounts of money for all involved, and, without corruption, we could pay off some of the national debt.

    Now, if we were to account for all income taxes coming in alone, there should be thirty million monthly paid staff, giving us, on average, one thousand rand a month, coming to 360,000,000,000.00 or three hundred and thirty billion in income tax a year. so, we could pay for the whole present state of things from income tax alone, yes?

    I am sure that this is due some more amount adjustments and scrutiny, as there are other incomes and maybe a few other costs involved, but, there seems to be something screwy going on.
     
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    In africa, there is a body that monitors democratic policy ideals for the continent. the thing is, the city wants to be democratic, progressive and so forth, but the people that vote do not. this means people in the city suggest changes, then go out to the people living happily and try to get them to vote these changes in - how stupid can you get?

    I suggest for the best results, the city folk go out on a campaign to the rural areas and show them their 'ways.' if the people out there like it, they will be interested and follow through, but, they do not have the lavish lifestyles of the city dwellers, and neither do the squatters. the driving force is jobs, not women's rights and other non dividend yielding policies.

    Maybe if the city dwellers want these 'ideals' so much, they could barter a deal with the people in need. the politicians are wasting their time by saying nobody will face the death penalty, for example, as this does not affect the down trodden - what they want is needs, not pie in the sky ideals where you get to rip the hijab off of women and get drunk at your 'successes.' these things do not matter when your stomach is empty.
     
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    There is a quick cheap solution to poverty for africa i have found. this would include bringing species that are not endangered, like buck of some sorts, to the camps, along with reject chickens and other livestock. this would mean that the squatters could feed themselves quite easily - maybe not enough to make money for clothes, but we will see what we can do about that. the funding for this 'importing of reject chickens' could come out of the social security amounts that are often stolen from - if it was barely surviving before, and this was because of greedy pilfering, then they should do this now, early in the year.

    As for clothes and toiletries, there could be some 'testing of toiletries' on the squatters in exchange for a load of 'the product.' then, there could be, for the clothing they need, silk worms given to them, in great numbers of eggs, and simple cheap knitting needles and so forth to make clothes.

    For more money, they could scrap metal and buy caravans with the money? this is a huge step up from a shack, of course.
     
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    Exports for africa should be down to the price being right for the quality. if africa was to buy 'older plans of products' and the moulds, they could supply last year's products very cheaply, because the amount of research that went into these moulds has been done already, and the west has no need for last year's products.

    Of course, if the manufacturer was to observe the basic product changes that have occurred, from taking apart the product, they could 'modify' the parts that have been introduced since the last mould, and, make changes to the mould, yes? this would be where the changes are quickly modified, so as to make it 'look a little different' and then listen to the next changes for the product.
     
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    Kenya is not going to improve until they get their corruption problems under control.
     

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