Security Council for Africa? To do what?

@Anonymous 3:50. The crime situation in SA will not improve as long as the anc are in power. I'm sure that even though you are not living in the country, you would be aware of all the crime that takes place within the government itself let alone the crime on the street. If people like you and your uncle continue to vote with your eyes closed to the current situation, wishing the anc would 'return to the old order', SA will never improve. So open you eyes, vote with you head - not your heart.

Chris wrote - Crap. If the west wanted the middle east oil why after discovering the oil and developing the oil wells did they hand them over to Arabs instead of keeping them? They need and buy oil as South Africa does.

AU = Absolutely Useless

AU wanted negotiations that involved Qhadaffi whereas Libyans wanted Qhadaffi out of the picture.

AU wanted negotiations that involved Qhadaffi whereas Libyans wanted Qhadaffi out of the picture.

Poor Africa! Always 'left out' in everything. Get a Life Mr Prez, that speech certainly doesn't reflect all of South African opinion, only your beloved AnC's rhetoric. You need to go.

Mr Zuma you also told the world that you would sort out Mr Mugabe. You did not Now you threaten the EU, they must laugh at you. Do you realy think that they care what you have to say. you need some home work at home to be done first,

the AU holds meetings in expensive hotel conference centres. all the delegates get free food and drinks and they sit around a table merely 'talking' and taking no action. Us taxpayers have to pay for the AU luxury club while theu au openly supports dictators who murder innocent civilians. The UN is a take-no-crap organisation and removes these dictators and resotres order and the au hates them because the UN shows how pathetic and incompetent the AU is!!

AU - what a joke - big mouths but that's it - you have achieved NOTHING ever anywhere ...

You got it right nic, I remember the OAU - same old bunch of do-nothings. Now it's the AU -but the usual cast of INEFFECTUAL blusterers and whiners. Recall Rwanda when the West and Africa sat on their hands? If the AU stepped up (shuffled more likely) in Libya instead of NATO, nothing would have happened except more bloodshed. And Gaddahfi The Desert Duck would STILL be in power. JZ's whining in NY was obvious - hethey miss their Muammar.

As a South African Indian Muslim has lived and worked in many countries and is currently still abroad because of the crime situation in SA, I can say that there is no place like SA when it comes to free speech and courage to disagree with the Western powers. During the last elections I complained to an uncle of mine how disappointed I was in the ANC, but he soon reminded me that the ANC and the SA Muslim Community have an unbreakable bond and voting anywhere besides the ANC is simply not an option. I do agree! I do hope that our newyoung ANC leaders remember their history and maintain this bond. The likes of Comrade Ismail Meer and Dr Chota Motala helped form the vision and thinking of Nelson Mandela and the ANC. The ANC must realise and exploit the multiracial talentpotential that South Africans have. We need a return of the old order.Principles, honour, justice. The recklessness of the Malema and the self interests of the Logie Naidoos must go....now! We need new blood with old ideas! Viva the true ANC! Amandla Awethu! Freedom for Palestine!

Mr. JZ, there were no efforts at all! What is AU doing about Sudan, etc?

We are still waiting for the AU to do something about the famine in the horn of Africa. Or the human rights situation in Zimbabwe. Or the people being murdered in Bani Walid by Ghadaffi thugs as we speak.

There is a reason why they ignored the AU. If the AU was going to determine the course of action every freedom fighters would have been murdered and the dictator would still have been in power. But then again, that sounds very much like the AU would have wanted things to be in any case.

I agree with u nick JZ is very slow , anyway we hope for ceasefire and killings of innocent blood in Lybia.

The AU is good at having meetings about serious subjects, but thats about as far as AU efforts go.

and the worwe part, NTC's taretting of black people Libyans is ignored by the very same NATO that claim the fight for under the "humanaterian" banner. Libyan arabs are recist, period.

And once again JZ783 embarrasses the country on the world platform. The AU is a morally corrupt body (oddly enough, strongly resembling the ANC) that has never managed to do a single thing right in Africa in its entire existence! It blatantly sides with dictators and tyrants and hasn't done anything to prevent the continuing genocide currently happening in so many African countries. All it is good for is having all-expenses paid parties all over the place. And then a slope-head like JZ783 punts this nonsense to the UN?

I dont understand why they dont listen to the AU.. Look how well they sorted Zimbabwe out.. They have been talking for 17 years..Any day now (cross thumbs) loool