Africa’s problems
Sir,—Tony Herbert (April 17) compares 40-odd “sub-Saharan African States” with South Africa and repeats the myth that blacks are far better off in South Africa than anywhere north. His list of the chronic deficiencies within these 40 States must surely be an indictment of their former, exploitative British, Belgian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian colonial masters because the oldest independent African State, Ghana, is only 26 years old. South /Africa has been developing since the seventeenth century and has immense mineral wealth and foreign investment to boot. Tony Herbert should read a copy of Ruth Siefert’s authoritative and regular “African military and social expenditure” (health, education, housing and welfare). That much-maligned State, Libya, leads the field in social expenditure, per capita, and other African nations also lead the miserable proportion South Africa disgorges for its vast black majority. — Yours, etc.,
M. T. MOORE. April 17, 1986.
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