South Africa Proves Its Blacks are Incompetent to Rule

April 3, 2004

A responsible government looks out for the welfare of its people. If an epidemic threatens its citizens, it reacts by identifying the disease, finding solutions and implementing them. This has not happened in South Africa (SA). Public health warnings about AIDS were ignored and blame laid at the feet of whites who are no longer in power.

AIDS, has killed millions worldwide  in the past twenty years. The past ten years of black rule in South Africa, it has killed hundreds of thousands. The response to the epidemic shows it incapable of doing the basic things for their citizens.

The SA government has been very slow to act on the AIDS problem. It refused to listen to reason or to scientists. The government even stated that HIV does not cause AIDS so the drugs offered were declared infective and it  blocked all attempts to give them to the ill. Incredibly, in the late 1990s the SA government supported an “AIDS cure”  using Virodene PO58 to kill the virus. Virodene a very toxic industrial solvent proved ineffective and dangerous. Many believe the African National Congress (ANC), once headed by Nelson Mandela profited from this bogus cure at the expense of South African citizens.

The SA government stalled any positive response to the epidemic using excuses such as, “The science of AIDS is suspect”, “The drugs are too expensive”, “and "The former repressive white government is to blame.”

AIDS threatens the future of South Africa and its leaders continue to ignore this and are openly indifferent.

Consider some current South African AIDS statistics:

About 4.8  million SA citizens are infected with HIV which causes AIDS. This is the highest number of any country on earth.

Most HIV infections are in blacks, between 15 and 20 years old.

About 11% of South Africans are HIV-infected and 25 percent will become infected in six years.

AIDS has reduced the life span of its citizens, mostly blacks. In about 6 years it will be just 36 years down from 68 about ten years ago.

About 27 percent of all pregnant women are infected with HIV.

So many adults have died of AIDS, the number of "AIDS orphans" is staggering. In in 1998 there were 100,000 orphans, in 2004 - 420,000 and in four years, there will be 1,600,000.

Incredibly, only about one third of its citizens consider AIDS a “top problem”. This is no doubt caused by the indifference of its government to the epidemic these past ten years.

In March 2004, the SA government grudging said it will distribute anti-viral drugs  in a pilot test but only in only five hospitals. This is certainly a weak response. There is no reason for treatment delays because South Africa has a well-developed health infrastructure ( or used to). It also has a lot of international AIDS donor interest. These resources have been unused or refused.

The magnitude of the AIDS epidemic in South African shows the incompetence and failure of its black leaders.  Their failure is measured by the deaths of thousands of its citizens each year.