>>And then there is Botswana - if it wasn't for AIDs...
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>That seems to be a place where they got it right and the locals built on the good parts after independence.
Again ex-Britsh! :-)
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>Compared to Zaire, the Congoa, Chad, Sierra Leone, Rwanda ...
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>Rhodesia may have been the epitome of third generation colonialism - but it certainly wasn't Zimbabwe and whatever his faults Ian Smith wasn't Mugabe.
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Actually, I watched a TV series about Rhodes a few years ago and it was rather shameful the way he and his private diamond army wrested the territry from the natives.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.