EARL’S WORLD---9

We are leaving Africa now and hugging the east coast before making a more north western turn towards Mauritius Islands. South Africa is into it’s 19th year post apartheid and governed by it’s third black president. The country is graded in the top 10 countries in Africa so far as it is being governed. There are many issues yet to be resolved as unemployment is high, black entrepreneurship is very limited, and the many township are festering with over crowding, lack of electricity, jobs and high birth rates. At least the people in Ghana seemed happy in their “misery” but there is more of an expectancy of better things to come in South Africa. Twelve percent of the population is infected with AID, and it is spread by heterosexual contact mostly. The migration of professionals (Doctors,Engineers) to other countries is a tragic drain. Capetown is a prospering city but the wealth is in white ownership. It must be one of the most beautiful cities in the world.