James from oxon AFRICA is not a country.......
Here in America we learned it is a CONTINENT.
However, your assumption of natural resources is correct. Your score is 50%. Here in America that is a failing score. Before you respond negatively I must admit most Americans do not know where Africa is.

Hulton, Carol Stream, IL

Africa is not a country it's a continent, BrightSpark! And we gonna be just fine.

Amani, Cape Town, South Africa

Im bussy doing a recki, been in the states 4months, dont want to raise my kids as Yanks(trust me).I'm now in NZ and its misserable and backward, and Im homesick after 10 days.Stop bitching people, which we SA's are so good at doing, and start fighting for the awesome country we have.
Pray for SA.

Ian, Aukland, New Zaeland

Africa is one of the richest countries in resources yet is one of the poorest in the world. Doesn't make sense does it?
Somewhere some people are just not capable of ruinning their own countries.

James, oxon,

i will never leave or break all my ties with south africa , no matter what goes on it is a place that is full of oppertunities and yes thaer can me nothing better in life than to be able to support at care for the needy. I spend alot of time abroad but i love being home

richard, cape town, south africa

Before the Europeans arrived there was nothing there - no country to speak of. Perhaps it's heading back that way?

Paul Williams, London, England

Over the past decade there has been a massive loss of skills in almost every functional area. Nobody to maintaining the power, water and sanitation systems, or produce food on a large scale.

A healthy balance sheet and changes at the top are irrelevant when there's nobody left to make things work

IF, Cape Town, South Africa

Black,White?..................Wake up people

D O'Brien, frimley, U.K

To Matt and all other Einsteins:
Whites in South Africa is not part of the black democracy. They are excluded by law. The ANC remains a racist government with all it's anti-white laws and their raw hatred against whites. There was no change, only role swapping.

Chris, Welkom, RSA, (Not so) Freestate

I must saw i am black and me and my girlfriend has been looking at our options we are considering moving, simply because we are from the minority groups(Venda) who are constantly attacked and called names by Zulus and Xhosa.

Taban Matibe, Johhanesburg, South Africa

SA has done well not to follow Zimbabwe - yet. The same radical pressures exist to retake the country for the indigenous majority, and they will eventually prevail one way or another. It's a pity that the white minority didn't do more to avoid this situation, now they can only leave.

Colin, Malaga, Spain

Walman, how are you going to describe USA when all the banks are nationalised? As for SA, say goodbye and smile for the good times(online). What will be the difference? At least the last one to leave will not have to turn out the light - it's already off!

Dr Peter Langmead, Fringilla, Zambia

Eddie, you say the whites are to blame as is the case it seems always. When will most/some blacks take responsibilty for their own bad behaviour/decisions in the US and South Africa. Some comments from Africans here show that there are some black intellectuals that take responsibilty. Stop blaming!!

henri, London,

When whites colonised SA the pop was 3,000 bushmen. The Bantu were still North of the Orange River. If the land belongs to its rightful owners it is the bushmen, exterminated continent wide by the Bantu. If white rule was so bad why the immigration. Fact Bantu spread by fleeing their own violence.

keith bentham, Wigan, uk

Im amused by those lamenting the south africans "tyring to justify their reason to leave" - aren't they doing the exact same thing by justifying their reasons to stay? Or perhaps they just dont have the option to leave? Respect the choices of others. I, for one, am outa here...

Kerry, Cape Town, South Africa

Zuma deserves a chance, and his being anti-Mugabe, and in favour of the death penalty would get my vote. However, singing "bring me my machine gun" is not going to have the same effect as Nelson Mandela wearing the 'boks rugby jersey at the world cup.......

David Ashton, Bathurst, Australia

Don't get the idea for one second that it is only whites leaving. There are educated and highly skilled blacks, who don't happen to support the ANC, and are therefore sidelined, who are leaving, as are coloureds and Asians.

Rod Baker, Cape Town, South Africa

To Gil...
"One solution would be to give the Afrikaaners a part of South Africa where they can govern by themselves and are not dominated by blacks."

Perhaps you never heard of APART-heid. It was meant to keep the races apart in their own little niche. It wasn't very popular with non-whites.

Matt, Corona, CA, USA

It's good to see that the majority of negative comments posted come from people not living in SA!

Matu Kelly, Helsinki, Finland

Inevitably,the last bastion will fall the same way as all the other African Countries. It will be another Zimbabe, Kenya,Angola, Mozambique etc., etc. Of course it will then also be the whites fault for everything and the whites responsibility to throw money into these lost causes. How repetitive!

Pedro, London, UK

Have you considered exactly how offensive it is to publish an article that uses 'white flight' and 'brain drain' interchangeably?

Brenna, London,

wow...sounds like america.....

Tam, Sacramento , USA

in orde to create you need to destroy. the whites built south africa and the blacks are destroying it before the rebuit it. that's the tread. blacks cannot just emerge from raggs to assume the sweat of south african whites, THEY HAVE TO BUILD NOT INHIRET. 20/30 yrs blacks in south africa can own it

William Kasaija-Kuuku, Gaborone, Botswana

I live in South Africa.My wife and I will be emigrating within the next 6 months.After innumerable burglaries,a hijacking and having my sons throat slit for his cellphone, enough is enough.The optimists are in for a rude awakening.I wont spend the rest of my life in fear and our skills are going too

Sean, Pretoria/Tshwane,

So Eddie who do the Ethiopians have to blame?

haralambos, joburg,

Dan of Durban - I agree SA is a land of diversity - look at how many ways you can be murdered?

ben trovato , cape town ,

Where are all the young South Africans, you ask? Behind our books, studying. Not everyone is emigrating or looking for a reason to emigrate. A smooth transition of power is a sign of a healthy democracy. Not everyone is in a frenzy, that's our contribution to a peaceful transition on a civil level.

Reeza, Stellenbosch, South Africa

The Whites were blackmailed into this position by self-righteous twit countries who divested in them during apartheid. They are owed sanctuary now that S.A. has gone to hell in a handbasket. I'm all for Africa being all Black. Can Europe go back to being all White now? No?!! Why not?!!

Michelle, San Antonio, USA

How interesting that the doomsayers are predominantly out of the country. While people are talking about the changes, most people just went about their business and were fairly up-beat when they saw some lame-duck ministers had been moved out.

There are few places I would rather live than here.

Andy Harrison, Cape Town, South Africa

It continually amazes me all the expert wisdom from people who have never lived here or those that have left and have to justify why they have left. South africa ia a brilliant country full of the diversity that many in the Western World who do not want to believe success stories in Africa.

dan, durban,

It's not a given that Zuma will be the next President. He has yet to face the courts. Meantime we have a good man in charge. Motlanthe may become President.

Even more encouraging is the fact that the ANC is splitting, issue related politics, the sign of a maturing democracy, may win the day.

Dave, Knysna, South Africa

South African whites were fatally betrayed by De Klerk and the international limousine commies who wept & screamed until the nation the whites created was given to the incompetent. Nowhere in the world is there an advanced, prosperous black-run city, let alone a country - and this will never change.

James, Crimora, Virginia, U.S.

I'm a white lawyer from Cape Town (29). My wife's (32) a dermatologist. We won't ever leave Cape Town. The lifestyle is simply amazing - we're so priviledged and thankful and happy! Everyday I have the opportunity to help someone and give thanks for what I have. Hysteria be gone!!!! :-)

Kobus, Cape Town, South Africa

They need growth so...they turn to Communism? Good idea.

walman, Boston, MA

Things wouldn't been so bad if whites would not have kept blacks in poverty and ignorance for so long. They whites have nobody to blame but them selfs!!

Eddie, MILLERSVILLE, USA

all very well being so negative,but south africans are a resilient lot.we'll be rising again don't count us out for your article focuses on whites only as if the other citizens does'nt matter!

Terence, pretoria, south africa

I am a white South African and I'm not leaving ever - through all the ups and down, SA will always be beautiful - the white-middleclass has been very comfortable the past 50 years, just uncomfortable with not having control, it is the poor that should really be worried. Rather SA than the USA!

Stefan, Cape Town, South Africa

Africa wants to get rid of it's white population. Generally speaking, blacks don't accept that whites can be Africans and therefore don't want them in Africa. One solution would be to give the Afrikaaners a part of South Africa where they can govern by themselves and are not dominated by Blacks.

Gil, Funchal, Portugal

It's not a one-party dictatorship.The article quotes Zuma affirmed the govt "will continue to work with business & labour to build a vibrant,resilient & sustainable economy".Cause for investor confidence.Yet song "Bring Me My Machine gun"at rallies doesn't encourage peaceful attitudes in the young.

Joan Moira Peters, Whangarei UK Citizen, temp o/seas in New Zealand

unfortuately South Africa will go the rest of the way of Africa. a downward slide in poverty, anarchy, 'dictatorship of the people' and the international begging bowl.
for all of africa its a disaster.

Anton, Perth.,

The final domino , Africa Adeo.Get the financial aid ready for another starving population.

Ed Allen, Whitby, Canada

Sounds like things are going down the toilet already.

Stewie O' Riordan, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

I am afraid that it is only a matter of time before South Africa will start down the slippery slope of its neighbour Zimbabwe. Corruption will no doubt get worse and with the educated middle class moving out all will be left will be those who will blame the "whites" for their own failures- very sad.

Brian, kuala lumpur,