The unrest in South Africa's townships are due to broken promises. More than one person, interviewed on tv, claimed that they had been promised houses. These are people living in shacks and would never have the money to pay for one square yard of land never mind an entire house. This means that some politician had promised free houses to poor people to get votes. This seems to be the pattern across the entire developing world. Institutions such as the World Bank say that poor people must be lifted out of poverty. The only way to do so is to educate every child in the country. Unfortunately it is the poor who continue to produce large number of children when they clearly cannot afford to feed, clothe and educate them. The reason they produce so many is that they can send the children out to work and enjoy their earnings. They do not see any advantage in education. After twelve years of school and four years of college the child may earn a lot but may not share with his parents so the parents opt for profit now rather than uncertain wealth in the future. Poor uneducated people have no regard for their children, their country or the climate. They want to squeeze as much out of the system and their ever increasing numbers mean that crooked politicians will promise whatever they want. Clearly this cannot go on. No country can go on throwing freebies at ever increasing poor. China recognised the danger and forced a one child policy derided by every pundit and bleeding heart. This may be why China has managed to grow at 9% even in such a severe recession. The Chinese may be like cockroaches but there may be something to learn even from them.