RACISM ALIVE AND WELL IN SOUTH AFRICA August 6, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in Uncategorized.Tags: black, share issue, vodacom
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Vodacom, South Africa’s leading cellular network, is listing YeboYethu on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and they have the following to say:
“YeboYethu is Vodacom’s way of giving BLACK South Africans the opportunity to share in the success of South Africa’s leading cellular network.”
So who exactly can take part in this share issue?
1) Black people (African, Coloured, Indian and Chinese) who are natural persons and citizens of SA through birth, descent or naturalisation occurring before 27 April 1994.
2) Black groups incorporated or formed in SA
3) Black business partners who have been invited to participate.
So who are excluded? WHITES!
What message is Vodacom giving to their loyal WHITE clients? WE DO NOT WANT YOU OR NEED YOU!
I wonder if this is even Constitutional to exclude ONE race group!
Since when are Indians classified as BLACKS? Even in the apartheid times they were classified as ASIAN not BLACK!
If the normal poor, uneducated black person was going to benefit mainly from this share issue I don’t think I would be so indignant about this, but we all know that the “fat cats” will walk away with the main share because of ignorance on the part of the “man in the street” black person!
I have been a loyal Vodacom client (white) from inception and would have liked to take part in this share issue, but because I AM white I am excluded.
Should ALL “white” Vodacom clients cancel their contracts and move over to Virgin where ALL races are treated equally?
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HIV/AIDS IN UNITED STATES August 3, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in HIV/AIDS.Tags: black, HIV/AIDS, USA
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The Centre for Disease Control in USA has receently revealed that there are more new cases of Americans infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, than previously believed.
About 56,000 people became infected with HIV in the past year, which translates to about 40 percent more cases than officials had estimated, said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention.
They now have technology that can determine when someone has been infected, this new method can indicate whether someone has been infected with HIV during the previous five months, rather than relying on statistical models.
“Diagnosis of HIV can occur years after infection. The fact that 56,000 Americans each year are contracting HIV for the first time is a wake-up call for all of us in the U.S.,” Fenton said.
“These numbers are a scathing indictment of how profoundly U.S. and CDC HIV prevention efforts have failed,” said Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which calls itself “the nation’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care.”
In terms of the HIV/AIDS figures in Africa the abovementioned new HIV/AIDS infected people in USA is very small, but it must be of great concern as one would expect that it would be easier to educate a first world country’s citizens than in our continent.
It is interesting to see the following report on HIV/AIDS amongst “Black” Americans:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/07/29/black.aids.report/index.html
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