It is time to emigrate....to the new South Africa

South Africa ’s debt to  GDP ratio is 32% (USA 100%, Japan 200%, UK 90%). The World Bank recommends a ratio of 60%.

South Africa sold $1.8 billion worth of cars to the US in 2010, putting us ahead of Sweden and Italy as suppliers to the US market. Car sales are projected to grow 10% in 2011 to 460,000 units.

South Africa is ranked 1st out of 139 countries in respect of regulation of security exchanges according to the World Economic Forum competitiveness report 2010-2011 .

The South African stock market rose 16.09% in 2010, ranking 8th out of the G20 nations and ahead of all of the G7 countries (Bespoke Investment Group).

The South African Rand was the second best performing currency against the US Dollar between 2007 and 2011, according to Bloomberg’s Currency Scorecard.

The number of tourists visiting South Africa has grown from 3.9million in 1994 to 11.3 million in 2010 South Africa is ranked among the top 5 countries in the world in respect of tourism growth (growing at 3 times the global average).

Cape Town was named the top tourist destination in the world in the 2011 Traveller’s Choice Destinations awards.

OR Tambo airport is the best airport in Africa, according to the World Airport Awards 2010/11. It was also in the top 3 most improved airports in the world for the same period.

SA has 30,000 schools (7,000 secondary, 23,000 primary). In 1994 only 12,000 had electricity. Now 24,000 have access to electricity.

South Africa ’s learner to teacher ratio has improved from 1:50 in 1994 to 1:31 in 2010.     

SA's population is the 27th largest in the world (there are 230 countries, only 80 have a population in excess of 10 million). South Africa is not listed as one of the 49 fastest growing populations.  Our population is set tostabilise at ± 50 million for the next 20 years. Population sizes remain the same when there are 2.2 births per fertile female.  In South Africa the figure is 2.3 births per fertile female.  The average in Europe is 1.7. (Economist).

The percentage of the South African population with access to clean drinking water has increased from 62% in 1994, to 93% in 2011.

Access to electricity has increased from 34% in 1994, to 84% in 2011.

Since 1994, 435 houses have been built each day for the poor.

Don’t let statements by youth leaders and politicians frighten you. They are only playing to their crowd and trying to win sympathy.  The media knows you will fall for this, because it sells…
  
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Fear leads to hate.  Hate leads to anger.  Anger leads to suffering.  Therefore….don’t fear.