I hate South Africa

Look, the black people that served us, whether it be the petrol attendant, the waiter or waitress, the checkout lady. They were all very friendly. However, the poverty is sickening, the amount of children on the side of the road, drunk adults just laying on the side walks around the shops. Dumb teenage boys harassing you when you get out of the car asking you to buy them a coke. These are all idle hands. Most of them have alcohol problems, many suffered from infant alcoholism that had seriously affected their intelligence. Yet, I do see those coloured and black families together at the beach. Those who have cars and decent clothes on. Yet, for so many that don't have it.

My mom has a friend from the UK that live in SA. She adopted her maids, a black boy from when he was a baby. The mom still had access to her son but felt it would be better for Joan to raise their boy. He went to the best schools, lives in a fantastic house and many times went on holidays, he even got as far as to get an MBA, very bright boy who got a chance. However, I just learned that he is leaving SA because he can't find work. I just wish people would band together and ignore the ANC and their stupid policies.

However, foreigners are staying away, business are forced to shut and no-one wants to hire anymore.

When I wrote I hate South Africa, I hate seeing what is happening to it. I will always support the boks and always connect with any South African, but this is not the country I had hope for. Back in the 90s I accepted that I had a privileged upbringing. The first black person I met when I went to the USA I felt I had to apologise for the harms we whites did. As a young man I carried that guilt. I said to myself, let me leave and allow another black person to get a chance at home. I got the schooling, so I would be okay. My first job I worked like a black. Cold, wet and dark, sharing a room, stuck in a basement for many months, yet I ensured for a year. So many of my friends packed in, but I got my chance to do what I use to do SA and that was to programme. I saved every penny and went to university. I had the privilege of paying £9000 a year for my degree, a degree I couldn't do in SA because my mom lost her government job when the ANC took over, my dad lost his job, so there was no money for me to go to university l, but I taught myself to programme and snuck into colleges to sit in on classes my friends went to.

I got my degree and went back to coding and I have steadily worked my way up.

Yet, I long for SA, the SA if the late 90s, my fiends, families, meeting people. However, every time I go home what ever nostalgia I had gets shattered.

I can no longer walk up long street in the evening, we hop from one home to another. I can no longer go swim on a full moon at midnight in the ocean. There are opportunist at every corner. As my friend said, Zulus and Xhosas are some of the most violent people on the planet and they won't think twice taking your life for a phone. Harsh coming from her as she never had a racist bone in her body. The white girl that lived with the Rastas of Knysna or who had a black boyfriend from Malawi or who have a half coloured sister.

The reality is, Xhosa and Zulus are the biggest problem, they are the majority and they vote for this nonsense.

I hope SA can survive and someone, preferably a black person puts a bullet through the head of melema

Evil fcs...showing why some thought Apartheid was a solution to prevent this...it wasn't, but there must be a better sollution than the current nonsense.

Pending

The GNU has always been a pipe dream.

No reduction in corruption ?

Of course there is no reduction in corruption, Blo.

The odd respectable and honest politician is never gonna make a dent in the mindset of your corrupt, leftist, socialist chommies here in SA.

That's why Trump has had to step in.

Thanks Ed for moving this thread to where it belongs.

I agree. There is a rugby section for rugby stuff.

You two should be kaskapteins...badge'n all.

I haven't been posting anything for the last few weeks, purely because my wife and I have been travelling a lot of South Africa.

I took a few weeks just to literally hit the road, and not even plan certain things to see or do, I quite literally landed up in places and asked the locals there what to do because I didn't want to do the usual tourist things.

What a epic trip .... from one side of SA to the other ... so this post was quite interesting to come back to.

Whilst I agree that things have got bad here, and will continue to do so, unless there is some intervention in the near future, I can't really agree with all the negatives.

The reason why, is because I have travelled to many countries around the world, and I see the positives and negatives in all of them, and it's nothing particularily endemic to South Africa.... not even close.

The Black people of SA have to want change, and if they don't vote for it, it never will change.

As Plum said, a huge part of the problem is the level of education across the country, and the reason why I raise and support this specific issue is because so many standards have either dropped or been reduced to accomodate BBE or BBBEE or some other previously disadvantaged person or group.....and this reflects directly in the quality and quantity of the work that gets done around the country, from school level to municipalities and government positions.... lower IQ people and substantially uneducated people are doing work that they are not qualified or experienced or educated enough to do....the government reduces the expected standard to ensure that more people qualify for the job, hence the reduction in quality and quantity of the work.... it really is that simple, but the results are devastating to the country as a whole.

Everyone in SA knows that postal, rail, airways, electrical etc etc organisations are a joke.... and nothing is improving at all.

Mostly all of the places we went to, and we went to a hell of a lot, mostly eating out for Breakfast, Lunch and Supper every day for a few weeks, we were served 95% of the time by Black or Coloured people, which showed me that young White South African people are not even getting the entry level jobs as waiters, which is very concerning, but it also illustrates just how much pressure all the companies and organisations in SA are under, to now employ previously disadvantaged people, or lose out on heavy possible income from government contracts or be heavily restricted on where they can purchase their produce or products from, depending of their supplier's BBE grading.

So no, we are not ruined yet, this is still a very special and beautiful country, filled with exceptional and talented people, with a friendly smile to assist at anytime in basically all the places we went to, but we have many problems......but the majority of the population in this country need to stand up for the change to take place, the Whites are too much of a minority to make much difference, that's just the plain honest truth.... our numbers are just far too low to even compete with changing this government, but we can join in.

Every place we went, I asked the waiters who their clientelle were mainly made up of, and the response was pretty much the same everywhere we went..... British and German, which we experienced ourselves as well by listening to the people around us.

All the places we ended up going to had basically 100% occupancy from one side of SA to the other and that was impressive to see..... the busses of people holidaying in SA was such an eye opener ... and quite frankly made me really appreciate just what we actually have on our own doorstep, that so many people travel thousands of kilometers around the world to see.

I can understand people's ongoing frustrations with SA ..... because we honestly personally know just how good it really could be for everyone here, but I think we still have so many good people and qualities going for us on a daily basis, even if there is still so much bad.

Having been to so many places around the world as stated earlier, there is still no other place I would want to be, not even close.....even if I do bitch and moan about it at times, I am entitled to..... but this is home and always will be.