TMKsouth:


Its on Rand terms, 5.6 billion! That's 400 million in dollar terms.

TMKsouth:
The wild side of Cape Town

Ugosample:


lol

PowerpuffGirlz:


Cheer up

anjigirl:
South Africa is regressing not progressing do your research properly
Infact they are regressing at a speed of light since the end of apartheid

dododawa1:
don't forget,their have WHITE people with then, assuming is only black nation,their will be going backwards too.

zhike:
South Africa’s financial hub Sandton is set to become home to the tallest building in Africa with The Leonardo – a 55-storey mixed-used property development by the Legacy Group and Nedbank – scheduled to be complete by the second quarter of this year.

The R3 billion skyscraper towering over Sandton Central can be seen for miles and will be some 230 metres tall. This will see the Leonardo pipping the height of the 223-metre Carlton Centre in Johannesburg’s CBD as the tallest building on the continent.

It also makes the Leonardo the tallest building to be constructed in South Africa since the 1970s, with the Carlton Centre now more than 45 years old. Construction on the Leonardo began three years ago. Some 2,000 workers are currently on site.

zhike:
When will our own Nigeria host world event?

zhike:
When will our own Nigeria host world event?

OkaNaUbe:
I hope xenophobia won't work against this?

SalamRushdie:


is this how you intend to earn your pay Matilda?

zhike:
As President Ramaphosa said subsahara Africa needs Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa to be united in order for it to progress. he also said we must not compete, we must share the skills and learn from each other. Am surprised to learn that some of the Nigerians want to compare South Africa with Nigeria, is like comparing an elephant and a goat.

TMKsouth:


Synagogue: South Africa Receives Corpses…shuns Nigerian Facilities - Nairaland / General - Nairaland
https://www.nairaland.com/1999438/synagogue-south-africa-receives-corpses...shuns

The South Africans, who arrived the country in two aircraft, shunned local facilities and items. They came with four forensic pathology trucks, generators, water, buses, pick-up vehicles and other items.

TMKsouth:
Gold Reef City Theme Park, Johannesburg.

PowerpuffGirlz:


Botswana is ok a bit laid back so its boring in my books. But it looks like SA in some areas. Cute guys too.

TMKsouth:



Vodacom hinted at corruption.

"The recent events involving Vodacom in Nigeria have to do with good corporate governance and trust, and nothing else," Knott-Craig said. "We had to take a stand to ensure that we maintain sound corporate governance."

TMKsouth:


More than 300 kilometres/3 hours. Kruger Park is the one shaded in green on the map below.

TMKsouth:


Kagame's got dark skeletons in his closet though. Can't tell my kids to look up to him. As a South African we have experienced first-hand the death squads he has in SA to take out his critics who've run away from home. Right now relations are tense between our two countries .

TMKsouth:


It's the Blyde River Canyon in the Mpumalanga province around the Kruger National Park. This is in the East of the country. It's the 3rd biggest canyon in the world after the US and Namibia. It's one of the most visited places in the country and u can actually hike, picnic and do some safari while there. There's a place called "Gods-Window" and the views are breathtaking.

highcollide:
Meanwhile Nigerians are planning to send buhari an uneducated coup-plotting jihadist with an analogue brain back to aso rock....

Una mumu never done. E still dey fire.

TMKsouth:


Get your facts right. Whites left Mandela with a bankrupt state. The debt stood at $23 billion dollars. Despite current challenges the black government in South Africa has tripled the size of the economy.

TMKsouth:
NairaLanders please note this article is from 2009.

FULL REPORT (What Makes a City World-Class?)
https://www.forbes.com/2009/09/02/new-york-paris-mumbai-rome-berlin-opinions-21-century-cities-09-world-class-cities.html

FORBES MAGAZINE (2009)

Let’s be honest: There are some cities in the world that are worse–much worse–than others, cities from which a multitude would flee if offered half a chance to relocate elsewhere. Lagos comes to mind, as do Karachi, Lima, Nairobi, Cairo, Caracas, Dhaka, Jakarta, Manila … these are utterly charmless cities (such charm as there once was in a few of them has been murdered by noise, traffic, a teeming population, dirt and crime); these are edgy, aggressive and inhospitable cities, cities in which contempt for the resident is everywhere apparent, cities with few parks and sidewalks, and with scarcely any of the amenities that comprise the core of urban civilization.

So what, by contrast, makes up a city that people would opt to live in, to travel to, to long for? What makes a city, in effect, the Anti-Lagos or the Un-Caracas or the Not-Manila? What makes a city world-class, cosmopolitan and alluring? What makes a city, in sum, truly civilized? In pursuit of answers, I talked to a dozen urban and urbane people (accomplished city-dwellers all), who each gave me a personal reckoning–sometimes idiosyncratic–of what a city of this caliber must have. Their responses follow.

(Details on points below can be found on link at top of this page)

1. Beauty at Night
2. Good public Toilets
3. Filthy-Rich People
4. A Great Train Station
5. Bars with Great Bartenders
6. Great Universities
7. Arresting Architecture
8. Diversity
9. An Encyclopedic Museum
10. Two Airports (one International, one Regional).

10 Years later (2018): Has your city reached "World-Class" status?


Picture below: Lagos at Night

ranch2000:


U mean these fantastic train stations?

TMKsouth:

Nigerian criminality in South Africa is more widespread than the average Nigerian back home would like to believe. According to the Nigerian Union of South Africa they had a registered membership of around 800 000 Nigerians in the country, with most of them living in Johannesburg.

Here is the summarised report (2017) released by South Africa's most prestigious institution of higher learning, the University of Cape Town (UCT):


MIGRATION OF THE NIGERIAN MAFIA
https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2017-05-16-migration-of-the-nigerian-mafia

16 MAY 2017 | CARLA BERNARDO.

Since the 1980s, Nigerian organised crime has migrated around the world. They established strong roots in Italy and, from the 1990s, in parts of South Africa. Valentina Pancieri, postgraduate researcher and police officer on sabbatical, is investigating the motivations for migration of Nigerian organised crime into these two nations.

“It is very important to note that not all Nigerian immigrants are involved in crime,” says Pancieri. “Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa so it has a greater chance of having a higher number of people involved in criminal activities.”

The move to South Africa

The arrival of a large number of Nigerian immigrants to South Africa began in the mid-1990s as the country was undergoing its transition from apartheid to democracy. With their home country in turmoil, South Africa proved easy to enter due to Nigeria’s contribution to the liberation struggle.

Nigerian syndicates first established themselves in Johannesburg in the late 1990s. As a virgin territory for organised crime, it was well suited to establish a new criminal venture, bringing in cocaine and crack.

In that period, nightclubs started hiring Nigerian bouncers as security, replacing white ones who were more prone to violence and attracted unwanted police attention. This acted as a marketing asset for the Nigerians involved in drugs, who could enlarge their market through selling in clubs.

While Nigerians never controlled the security industry, through their established South American contacts, they began importing cocaine, which is not produced in South Africa and for which local criminals had very few contacts.

Nigerians soon established themselves as controllers of the cocaine and crack supply chain.

To this day, cocaine is still not available in large quantities on the South African market and Johannesburg remains the headquarters for Nigerian illicit activities in South Africa.

Friends and family

In addition to markets and demands, “ethnic ties are very important to the way crime moves”, says Pancieri.

According to her research, Nigerian mafia will, prior to establishing themselves in the host country, seek out and join those with a shared background.

“You want to do business – legal and illegal – with people from your culture and language,” she says.

Territory

The presence of established criminal organisations serves as a deterrent for Nigerian mafia. In Cape Town, gangs control the Cape Flats, feeding its supply of cheaper, more addictive drugs –predominantly to impoverished communities.

“You won’t find Nigerian syndicates selling drugs on the Cape Flats,” says Pancieri. “Nigerian criminals do not appear to want to fight.”

How to curb Nigerian mafia

Instead, when they first arrived in Cape Town, Nigerians set up shops in the affluent and relatively gang-free Sea Point to expand their business into the drug trade and sex trafficking.

But they did not stay there. Through collaboration between police, law enforcement and the local neighbourhood watch, Nigerian syndicates were pushed out of Sea Point, forcing them to find a new stronghold in the city’s northern suburbs.

The Sea Point case demonstrated South African police’s ability to break organised crime.

“But it is not an easy structure to eradicate,” says Pancieri. “You need to be trained, equipped and conducting wiretapping investigations. You need to be monitoring people.”

Pancieri hopes that the understanding that results from her research will strengthen transnational police operations in their fight against Nigerian crime, and enable judiciary systems and social support agencies in their work with criminals, criminal networks and victims.

“Until something related to police intelligence work is done, Nigerian criminal syndicates will always be successful,” she says.

TMKsouth:
Nigeria has ranked 33rd out of 40 countries for its measures to protect children against sexual abuse and exploitation, edging countries such as China, Vietnam and Pakistan but fairing worse than counterparts such as India, Jamaica and South Africa. This is according to a new index developed by the Economist Intelligence Unit released this week.

The report titled, Out of the Shadows, on child sexual abuse and exploitation is based on a study of the approach of 40 countries from around the world to such offences.

The index examines how the government, the private sector and NGOs respond to the threat of child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation in those 40 countries.

South Africa ranked first among the eight African countries included in the index with the overall score of 56.1 points out 100. Nigeria ranked 6th with a score of 46.4. Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda also faired better than Nigeria on the index. Mozambique and Egypt were ranked below Nigeria.

REPORT
https://outoftheshadows.eiu.com