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[Andy™]

BBC Story

So the governemnt are going to give

 

[Jono Pashley]

Council road sweeper came down our street today took great chunks of the road surface up. even tho they have work crews right round the corner they say it could take upto 2 months for them to come put it right. By put right they mean chuck some tarmac in and tamp it down with their boot. Sometimes i wonder what i pay road tax for...

 

[Pyro]

Interesting BBC article, AndyC, thanks for the link.

Having read the article, I have questions and commments.........

1. Improvements are to be made to roads linking Tanzania with South Africa (a distance of a couple of thousand miles) so that Tanzania has better access to SA's ports? :| . What is wrong with Tanzania's own and very local port of Dar-es-Salaam?

2. All countries noted in the article are independent. Why are they now depending on foreign investment?

3. "The cooperation of eight African countries - Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa - is needed for the project to be successful." The co-operation of Zimbabwe (and a few other countries listed) will be dependant on the depositing of funds in personal presidential Swiss bank accounts, so there goes a good portion of the UK's 100 mil tax contribution - your tax and mine.

4. Continuing on the same theme, to get anything to move fast in certain of the countries noted, "palm greasing" is required right down to the bottom end of the food chain: the officials who clear vehicles / drivers to cross borders. Put simply: no bribe; no border crossing.

So, after 120 years, Cecil John Rhodes great plan to join Cape Town to Cairo is still alive? Well, 50% alive...... Cape Town to Dar-es-Salaam is about half way to Cairo. ]

Enough, ENOUGH!! Don't get me started on Africa X( !!

:coat

 

[Robojin]

Interesting BBC article, AndyC, thanks for the link.Having read the article, I have questions and commments.........

1. Improvements are to be made to roads linking Tanzania with South Africa (a distance of a couple of thousand miles) so that Tanzania has better access to SA's ports? :| . What is wrong with Tanzania's own and very local port of Dar-es-Salaam?

Possibly a little too close to Somalia I guess

 

[Apache]

You don't worry about others until your own house is in order.............

 

[andylherts]

You don't worry about others until your own house is in order.............

Here Here well said

 

[Evans Electric]

Amazing how these contries demand their independence then proceed to prove that they can't run a country as long as they have a hole up their **** . All you hear is mass murder of your own people, crime and corruption at all levels. Must be some oil there somewhere , otherwise why are we interested ??

 

[Jono Pashley]

whatever next...maybe we can get G20 to club together to decorate Rob Mugabes Palace.. and give Kim Jong Il a trip to the bahamas

 

[Evans Electric]

Talking about Mugabe, he,s managed to get inflation up to 1,000,000 % apparently. He has driven out all the white farmers and given their farms to his countrymen , who in turn have let the crops go to waste and the country's livestock are extinct through bad husbandry.

 

[Jono Pashley]

Brown must have been taking notes okok.. :coat

 

[ABC Technical]

Mr Brown ought to come & drive around Devon for a day, we have the worst roads in the country.

Sod everyone else, lets get our own house in order first ffs. X(

 

[Pyro]

BBC News (Look North, Yorkshire) has announced that the Government will be making grants available to Sheffield Council for

 

[Andy™]

but they will make more money not fixings the roads. less spending on repairs, and more income in VAT from car repairs

 

[Pyro]

Hmmmmmm....... good point AndyC.