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— Well spoken — in Pretoria, in front of thousands of students and staff members of the university. That was only two months ago. We had just visited seven countries of Africa: Cameroon, Namibia, Mozambique, the Seychelles, the Sudan, Zambia, Liberia — and now South Africa ...

Mr. Moon has financed some nine hundred infrastructure-projects in Africa up to now and has written off debts of some ten billion dollars accumulated by African governments. His companies are constructing in Africa: dams, roads, telecom-networks, hotels, stadiums, airports, pipelines, railways ...
Mr. Moon does not understand why the common African does not like the common Chinese. To find the reason for it is the other task for me whilst rolling over railway tracks laid by Chinese when they were still welcomed by Africans.

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Am I this one?
Which one?
This one!
Or — even this one? …

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You know, Mr. Rockefeller, my friends here and I, we are still sort of greenhorns in this business — we buy in Dubai, mostly affordable goods from Asia: children’s clothing and toys, spare parts, electronics, computers …
We four have teamed up; four times a year we manage to save funds for air tickets, then for a ship-container from Dubai to Dar-es-Salaam, and for transport on the TAZARA to Zambia.
But now we are facing the challenge of Chinese business people; they want to do everything on their own! … Don’t you have an idea? Something along the line of LAMPS FOR AFRICA? I mean, we have our own oil in Africa, haven’t we?
And my brother in law has experienced himself what is in the pipeline once these Chinese take over …

We are pretty sure, ladies, Mr. Rockefeller may become sort of an advisor for your needs whilst we travel along. Even Chinese managers copy the one or the other idea from the early Rockefeller-history …
However, in order to get some more details about the experiences mentioned by your brother in law we simply invite him to join us on our rolling stage.
Welcome, Mr. Albert Mwanaumo! We haven’t reached yet that section of the TAZARA-line where we have to lower steel-protection for the windows against stones thrown by children. We haven’t crossed into Zambia yet.
There, in the North, you are working in a copper-mine?

„I have worked! Until they used guns against us!“

They fired guns? Chinese managers shot at you?

„And got six of us killed! ...
You see, in Zambia’s copper belt, Chambishi was supposed to be a showcase of Sino-African friendship. China’s state metals conglomerate, China Non-Ferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., bought the mothballed copper mine here in 1998, bringing plenty of jobs and investments. Our initial gratitude, however, quickly turned into seething discontent, as the new Chinese owners banned union activity and cut corners on safety.
In 2005, dozens of locals were killed in a blast at the Chinese explosives facility serving the mine — the worst industrial disaster in Zambia’s history. Then, the following year, protesting Zambian employees were sprayed with gunfire. The Chinese, they don’t even consider us to be human beings; I was shot by a Chinese supervisor. They think they have the right to rule us.
Chinese-owned shops now dominate the main market in our capital, Lusaka. There, they sell trash … rejects. Plastic flip-flops disintegrate after two weeks, bicycles after half a year. They even sold colour-TV’s that turned black and white after a while.
Like mushrooms shooting from African soil after a rainy night, these Chinese appear suddenly everywhere. And, like mushrooms, they suck from the places they sit on!
Similar feelings of resentment about China’s unfolding scramble for influence in Africa are beginning to bubble up across the continent. African leaders still hail China’s burgeoning involvement as a solution to Africa’s woes and a welcome alternative to the West. But among ordinary Africans, appreciation of this unprecedented influx of Chinese investments, products and settlers isn’t nearly as uniform. We don’t want another foreign power here, especially one that is not a democracy.
You know, I am in contact with other unionists in other countries. Since beginning of this century — and we are talking about seven years only! — China has ignited a dramatic process of capitalist globalization so gigantic that there is nothing to compare with.
During the last six years business relations between China and Africa grew five fold, up to fifty-five billion dollars worth in the year 2006 alone! China has outgrown Great Britain as third biggest trading partner of Africa, after the U.S.A. and France.“

Mr. Moon thinks, sixteen per cent of industrial growth per annum is not a bad achievement. It could be increased …

... and with regard to labour regulations in Mr. Moon’s African companies — what‘s the difference compared with his companies at home?
Forty-eight Heads of States from Africa had had a chance to inspect companies in China. Mr. Moon had paid their trip to the „Forum on China-African Cooperation“ in Beijing in November last year. None was interested to see a company.
Mr. Moon is interested that the African elite are welcoming him. The African elite are interested that Mr. Moon tailors them elegant dresses — if necessary, even from African cotton.
The example of the cotton industry — which provides jobs for twenty million Africans — illustrates how China, alongside U.S. and European imperialism, is perpetuating Africa‘s economic enslavement. China is now the largest market for African cotton, which is then turned into clothing in China‘s gigantic, low-wage, low-price textile sector and sent back to overwhelm Africa‘s local manufacturers. Textile factories in South Africa, Mauritius and Nigeria have closed, while in tiny Lesotho, where making clothes for Europe or America is the only industry around, this has been catastrophic.
Trade union colleagues in South Africa have protested that Chinese imports have cost around one hundred thousand jobs in the domestic textile industry, which resulted in Mbeki‘s government and Beijing agreeing to a 'cap' on imports of Chinese made garments for two-years.
However, this concession must be viewed in the context of South Africa‘s ballooning trade deficit with China and the fact that South Africa is the biggest market for Chinese goods in Africa, accounting for a one-fifth of its total exports to the continent.
And one has to understand, China‘s relationship with South Africa is a complex one, going beyond trade and investment links. The Chinese regime wants to develop a 'joint venture' with the South African capitalists — the dominant regional force — in order to exploit more effectively other resource-rich states in the vicinity such a Namibia, Mozambique and Angola.“

Mr. Moon lets you know: his managers have to follow in Africa the following guidelines:

Mr. Moon has creative tailors as writers of his speeches …