War II

 Some thing nobody expected is that the world would land in virtual war with no end in sight. How this mess will untangle no one knows! 

We in South Africa have an inept government  which is rather understating the mess we are in .Luckily we have a wide variety of minerals needed by the world. At the moment Gold is doing very well. GFI has taken advantage of this fact by starting mines all over the world in and then being less influenced by unrest and moves towards socialism etc. Their new mine in Chile SALARES NORTJE will only take thee years to ramp up and not the usual twelve years. It is a low cost project. It is already producing gold. Gold remains a store of wealth. Even if the price of gold were to fall by a third it would remain profitable!

WAR !

 War leads to many miscalculations and of course mistakes. Some dreadful deeds are also done and are likely never to be punished . Especially if they are a major protagonist such as Russia!

 In the case of Israel there has been much hatred as well egged on by Iran which is trying to gain ground against the Sunni's and promote the Shiite brand of Islam as well!

 Elements within  the Israel army probably where   responsible as their love ones were treated horribly by Hamas terrorists . The scenes women being dragged thru the Gaza streets and beaten on by hordes of Palestinians will be with me forever more! What was also noticable that every palestinian joined in ,including children !

 It is definitely not the Israel policy  to bomb aid workers as they are not savages!We saw very little sign of refugees and it looked on TV as if almost 100% of the population enjoyed the carnage!