When will South Africa be considered a first world country?
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The terms First world and Second world came out of the cold war era. First world was used to describe capitalist industrialised nations and Second world reffered to the Eastern bloc or Communist nations. At that time Third world reffered to everyone else who did not fall into this catagory. Today, when you talk about a third world country, you mean a developing nation. South Africa has a dual economy. That means she is both First world and Third World at the same time. The cities are developed and industrialised but the rural areas are extremely underdeveloped and many people live withouth access to basic infrastructure.
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SOUTH AFRICA - 2010\nBRASIL OR MEXICO - 2014
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the next one will be in South Africa
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yes , its quite better\nafrica is a poor country\nbut as wc 2010 is held there it'll make it lot of money\nit will help africa to overcome economically
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Yes man.SOUTH AFRICA.
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2010 will be hosted by South Africa.
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Well, I hope so! That would be a world premiere but while waiting, remember that an african nation already won the commonwealth or olympics games!
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the so-called first world countries. US, Canada, Japan and the rest of Europe.
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The term "First World" refers to so called developed, capitalist, industrial countries, roughly, a bloc of countries aligned with the United States after word war II, with more or less common political and economic interests: North America, Western Europe, Japan and Australia. \n\n \n\n\n\n  "Second World" refers to the former communist-socialist, industrial states, (formerly the Eastern bloc, the territory and sphere of influence of the Union of Soviet Socialists Republic) today: Russia, Eastern Europe (e.g., Poland) and some of the Turk States (e.g., Kazakhstan) as well as China.
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Probably not Africa, few enough national governments there are stable or organized enough to fully exploit a resource like that. I am Canadian, so I'll have to pick the home team.
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I'm from SA and am totally against Apartheid! that's the reason why the country seems like it's going down! if there were never a Apartheid Regime and everyone had equal opportunity and education, South Africa would be a first world country!
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I don't know but if you send me an e-mail I can give you the e-mail address of a south african friend of mine who might be able to give you an answer.
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First, who is the "Average" South African? With apartheid ended, does it remain that "economically" the "white" middle or upper class citizen is still considered to be the "average" or "typical" citizen.\n\nBy the way, I am not some radical, militant. I'm an old-fashioned WASP (that's white, Anglo-saxon, Protestant!)\n\nNow, to the question!\n\nAny population group (whether it be South African or Icelander's) can benefit from the internet as it brings them into a global community that increases them intellectually, socially and economically!\n\nI have only to look at the "dumb" position that my own government took around 30 plus years ago when we refused to acknowledge the People's Republic of China. I still don't agree with their system of government BUT how can you pretend that a third of the earth's population doesn't exist? Now that's dumb!\n\nAnyhow, growth in this world depends on "Information" and knowledge. Hence the term IT (Information Technology). GO South Africa!!!
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I think it's South African...not real sure though
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the next one is in South Africa in 2010.\n\nthe WC takes place every 4 yrs
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2010 in South Africa.\n\nFIFA has ruled it would be in Africa, and South Africa beat opposition from Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Morocco to get the Cup.
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Hi, All african countries have cars and houses so that's the wrong way to put it.  Judged by Gross Domestic Product we have unusual answers.  Yes, first South Africa is far ahead, but the other four contenders are Botswana, Namibia, Tunisia and Gabon.  All these countries have different development strategies, and I'd say that Botswana and Gabon are not developed at all, they simply have natural resources and a small population.  Botswana has diamonds, and Gabon has oil, but Botswana has a nearly 40% AIDS rate, and Gabon has most of its country as undeveloped jungle, with nearly no industries.  \n\nMy answers would be \n1) South Africa: it's industrialised and now with the end of Apartheid many blacks have risen to economic success. \n2) Tunisia: they've managed to become a prime tourist destination and use the money for industrialisation, they've done it all without oil or diamonds.\n3) Namibia: Quite similar to South Africa, was in fact part of Apartheid South Africa until 1992, so again industry created by European settlers with the usual problems of bad distribution and exclusion of the native population. \n4) Marocco: Another tourist destination in Africa, but they have done not as well as Tunisia in terms of lifting the rest of the population out of poverty.  \n5) An unlikely answer, but Ivory Coast: They were essentially doing well before the war and are likely to bounce back after it, the prosperity was starting to cause ethnic tensions and that really brought the country down in 2002.\n\nI exclude places like Algeria where despite the oil boom, most people live in fear.  Libya is still a one-man rule, I'll wait and see on that case.  I'm not impressed by oil or diamonds when they can't help an AIDS crisis or create good housing for all, so places like Gabon don't figure high in my statistics.  \n\nOh, and some the islands of Africa (Cap verde, Seychells, Mauritius are doing relatively well, partly due to offshore financial centres, and tourism).  But offshore finance also gives a veil of secrecy for capital to escape out of the resource rich countries, therefore harming the countries like Nigeria which is oil rich.  So Mauritius bankers are actually causing poverty in rest of Africa... see below the link.