The owners of the Gates Foundation of America, Bill and Melinda Gates, paid a visit to South Africa with the aim of providing further assistance to the poor black people of the country. For years they have been struggling not only to fight diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis, but also to provide water and sanitation to certain areas.
According to the foundation’s website SA is a country with global influence that has both significant challenges, including high rates of HIV and TB, and critical assets, such as a world-renowned scientific and research community. Gates says they work closely with government, academics and the private sector as well as with civil society, and also offer opportunities in the field of technology to address SA’s greatest needs.
An earlier attempt by whites to get help from the Gates Foundation for the impoverished Afrikaners did not even elicit a reaction.
