Out of Africa

I have traveled all over the world - but has never seen the natural beauty Africa has to offer to its people.   This is the continent of vivid colours - the most beautiful city in the world insofar as natural environment is concerned.  The continent with abundant natural resources.
So why is Africa a disaster insofar as its people is concerned?  Why the poverty?  Why the continent where only two things flourish - namely the dictators and the constant internal warfare?
Lets just look at a few examples:-
South Africa
This is the country where the Government is centered around an illiterate rabble-rouser succeeded in becoming president of the country.   He was charged with 738 charges of bribery and corruption and survived that one by appointing his co-looters to take over the National Prosecuting Authority.   He undermined the Public Protector and that matter is still before the courts.   
He made sure that he appoints equally corrupt individuals to key posts - whether they were qualified for the job or not.   That allowed for the loot of More than R250 000 000 for his private home in Nkandla - but he and his cronies was still not satisfied - the big loot with the signing of an agreement with Russia for provision of nuclear power stations and with Airbus would entail other real huge loots.
To do that - he had to get rid of the Minister of Finance - since that Minister would not provide the money to make the loot possible so the answer was clear - dismiss the Minister and put a knowledge-deficient Minister in charge - one who would not dare to refuse the instructions of Zuma and his cronies.   Taking over the Treasury was the prime objective in this case.   As a result billions went down the drain within two days and even some of the Zuma cronies panicked and he had to change the Finance Minister to somebody he removed previously in the hope that the successor would be less obstructive.  
The President is an idiot in all senses of the word and the rest of the country suffers as a result.   However, it would have been better if he was not a looter as well - but he is and that is where the country went off the rails following the way of so many other countries in Africa.

Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwe became independent in 1980 President Nyerere of Tanzania told him "You have inherited the jewel in Africa".  So what did Mugabe do to that jewel?  After 35 years what has happened to Zimbabwe?  
*   The country is one of the three poorest countries in Africa without even its own currency.
*   The President and his cronies looted everything they could lay their hands on and they have billions in foreign bank accounts, while 90% of the people live in desperate poverty - under his leadership Zimbabwe became one of the most corrupt countries in the world;
*    The agricultural sector collapse with Mugabe and his cronies stealing all the most productive farms from their rightful owners and the agriculture-based industry collapsed as well;
*   Legalized murder, abductions and torture became the norm and the judiciary system destroyed to ensure that no one is prosecuted for abuses.
*   Millions of people fled from the country and they are prepared to cross the most dangerous obstacles to get out of the country by all means possible.  And they would not go back willingly going so far as jumping out of moving buses when deported.   
Now Mugabe realizes he is approaching the end.  At 91 he cannot retire because the successors may demand the money of the country back - so now he is grooming his wife to take over.  This women is an ex-typist in his office - who turned in the Shopper of Africa and looting the diamond industry.  She got a doctorate degree within three months after she registered at the University in Harare.   Mugabe was and is a mass-murderer - his wife is potentially a worse case.
CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY - is all one can say about Africa
Rugby
So what has the above to do with Rugby - a destroyed economy aside?   There are some similarities though.  SA specializes in appointing idiots as coaches and most of those should not coach on club level.  Selections are a farce and game plans something that seems based on rugby of the 19th century.
So where to in 2016 - we still do not know who will succeed Meyer and we must accept that there are too many idiots aspiring for that post.    

Mike, it's simple. Cold places require planning to live in. IE, to survive this winter you'd have to have thought ahead two years. Warm places do not. Hunt, eat, pomp, sleep. Repeat. Evolution churns out efficient systems that are suited to their specific environment. Whites, have a better ability to plan ahead and this is suited to life in the modern world we created. Black people have a different kind of intelligence. The guy who co-discovered the genome was banned from talking at major universities for saying this. They deemed him a Nazi. I was bummed as it happened at exactly the time when I had gotten tickets to watch him and Dawkins debate at the Ashmolean in Oxford. No refund :/ Problem is, as I see it, this kind of PC actually does more harm then good. It claims that we are exactly the same. Because if we are not all the same then some must be better and some worse. They've totally polarized a very complex human dynamic and turned into a taboo topic. People are different. Difference is great. We should celebrate it. Talk about it. Confront our own and each others problems and not label a race good or bad because of their weakness, since it is not all they are. Every single race and culture has pros and cons. As long as we are too PC to discuss them, then we will never find solutions. Here... Whites...Nazis Blacks...lazy Chinese...cheats Jews...greedy Japanese...arrogant Everyone's got labels and it's bullscrap!!! I wish I lived in a world with no ego. One where I didn't become defensive as soon as somebody pointed out my weaknesses. Unfortunately we somehow need the little creature that lives behind the mask in his little ivory tower in our heads. I'm not sure why we need him but damn it'd be great to boot him out ;)

 CM u had better cool it guy before the ANC youth brigade come knocking.
Also remember this:
The ANC are only doing what the Nationalist Party did but the ANC have perfected the act.
Pity but true.

 Nations flourished under  Christian values. As they depart fom them there is a decline. The trouble in Africa has also been spiritual. Witch craft etc puts one in bondage.The bible says. As a man thinks so he is. If you have bad values and ideas you and your country suffers. witness the mess isalm countrieware in - often referred to hellholes. Pity the por women born into islam! Witness the horrow of atheistic communism. Witness the horrow of godless nazism. 
Imagine the mess on a personal level poor warped Dud and an ass must be in!!
AJ the anc is far more corrupt and much more inefficient. The Nats problem was they wanted to rule but were in a minority. What a tradgedy we had such a rotten bunch coming into power.

Beenis you absolute nonse. Nations flourished? Tell me, have you forgotten about the dark ages? The only reason SOME nations flourished under Christianity was because they broke free from the iron grip of the CHRISTIAN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH! The very same group who invented Christianity to pacify the Roman people, andnpossibly so doing blasphemed against the Torah. Your Jesus unfortunately started out as a propaganda tool, was then used for 1000 years ro murder and torture people and is now flaunted by idiots like yourself to generate hate against other groups. Are you aware how many deaths one of your churches was responsible for during the dark ages...and after? Take a wild guess. Islam has not killed 1% of that. Also, 700 years of the church holding humanity back, only allowing the rich and church connected to be educated. So please, tell me again about how peaceful and good for the world Christianity is? You are an idiot. A total idiot.