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'I miss...'

by John
2009-11-12 09:05

To my fellow South Africans,

I miss the "old" South Africa. I am not talking about apartheid; I am talking about the new South Africa post-1994. Remember how exciting it was to live in the newest country in the world? We were the centre of attention. It was amazing to see Madiba meeting heads of state that once had sanctions against us, but now embraced us and flooded us with money.

I miss the camaraderie between whites, blacks, coloureds, Indians, now replaced with dirty looks and racist remarks.

I miss being proud of our country and loving our beautiful people and cultures, now replaced with hate and fear and greed.

I miss watching the news and seeing what good was done today, now replaced with corruption and BMWs and Malema.

I miss the days when I didn't hear about the ANC youth league, when they represented the black youth and gave them hope and good direction, now replaced with infighting and daily racist remarks.

I miss the days when the police were friendly and cared and did everything they could to help, now replaced with greed, laziness and apathy.

I miss reading wonderful stories in the foreign media about how the rainbow nation is growing and flourishing, now replaced with rapes, murders, corruption and 2010 chaos.

I miss the warmth and honesty and good character of Madiba, I would trust him with my life and he stood for all of us South Africans, now replaced with a puppet for Cosatu, SACP and ANC cronies, who bends and slides his way out of trouble and who doesn't have the best interests of the country at heart.

I miss knowing that my job is safe, that I am valued, that I matter, now replaced with I'm a racist, I don't belong in Africa, I should make way.

I miss the old "new" South Africa. Somewhere the dream we all had turned into a nightmare. Somewhere the wheels came off and we lost track. Somewhere we stopped loving each other and started loving money and cars and big houses. Somewhere we started caring less for the needy and more for ourselves. Somewhere we forgot that Madiba spent 27 years in prison for all of us, he united us all and he knew the only way forward was together.

If I didn't want a better South Africa, I would have left long ago. But I am here, working, living and trying to keep the dream alive.

I want the new South Africa back, I want the best South Africa back, I want what we all want - a dream we can believe in and not a recurring nightmare.

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twolips 11/12/2009 9:13:53 AM
Those days might not come back in a hurry, as the architect of that dream has been replaced with "comrades" who are in it for themselves and if, God forbid, JM should ever come to power, the dream will become a nightmare. All we decent citizens can do is make our own world and that of all those who are in it, a little rainbow world. The love will hopefully spread, albeit slowly.

Koochie 11/12/2009 9:14:29 AM
Beautifully said !

Zizo 11/12/2009 9:14:49 AM
Great article.... emotional too. Let's claim the country back from racism. I am all for rainbow nation and I still have hope.

SimonP 11/12/2009 9:16:01 AM
"I want what we all want" Sadly not everyone in SA wants what the sane want. Some want racial divide, want to live in poverty, want to rely on handouts and most worrying want a power crazy leadership to busily rip the country to bits.

LJE 11/12/2009 9:19:36 AM
The honeymoon is over. We have become indistinguishable form the rest of a struggling continent. We got democracy in '94. In the mean time politicians forgot how it worked and broke it in the process. ITs up to us now to pick up the pieces. There's a new struggle. The struggle to really make this a great country. This country was in a pile ashes pre-94. Seems like we just moved to another pile of ashes. The politicans will burn this country down if it means they can lien their pocket with another signle ill-gotten Rand.

Tracy 11/12/2009 9:21:33 AM
"things" have just "settled" and got up and running .... into disaster

Fred Basset 11/12/2009 9:23:29 AM
All possible if we had a strong opposition. A one-party-state is basically a dictatorship. I think we have to hit rock bottom before we mature enough as a nation to demand something better from our elected government.

Don't hold your breath - I am in my mid thirties and I don't think it will be in my lifetime.

Johan Britz @ Zizo 11/12/2009 9:25:37 AM
Let me ask you something. Is there such a thing as "Black Racism"? If so, please give me an example?

REALITY 11/12/2009 9:27:16 AM
Yes, the international community are now telling us the honeymoon is over. They realise how lawless we have become, with zero law enforcement.
Focus on self-enrichment such as expensive cars is all the government are interested in.
Daily stories of corruption and financial mismanagement. The world is noting the reality. We need to change.

Edeano 11/12/2009 9:27:17 AM
My Man u came up with a solution that we dont want to hear but it is the truth,(Both have's and have nots) joining hands and working together is the only way to go if we indeed LOVE THIS COUNTRY, It's always up to us to bring about change, not politicians in caucus meetings...

blah 11/12/2009 9:28:20 AM
I doesn't look like those days are coming back in our lifetime.

I would suggest building a transportable career and staying here until you think that the time is right to leave. Even if that day never comes it is always nice to know that you have an escape route should things get a bit hot to handle.

Lynn 11/12/2009 9:29:41 AM
Wow ......... can we not forward a copy to JZ ...... would he read it and comprehend what the majority feel?

SimonP@Zizo 11/12/2009 9:35:40 AM
"Let's claim the country back from racism"

Go read YOUR own posts over the last couple of weeks. Do you understand what the rainbow Nation is supposed to be?

Cynical 11/12/2009 9:38:14 AM
I also miss the old South Africa where there was law and order and I am proud to say that I voted NO in the 1990 referendum where we had to decide yes to no to negotiating with the ANC, because I could see what an epic stuff up was looming if they ever took over and in hindsight, I think I was right! This country is now completely and utterly screwed and I don't care who says what.

@SimonP 11/12/2009 9:38:51 AM
what a very negative view of the world you have there ...mmmh i say let it go all that anger and fear (not good for your heart)embrace the new rainbow nation you never know sometimes you see ghost where there are none. there are people who want this country to be better it might not be everyone but i would say the majority

Lewis 11/12/2009 9:44:15 AM
We have a beautiful country and we're slowly but surely stuffing it up. Such a pity.

oistar 11/12/2009 9:53:31 AM
The rainbow nation went out the door when Madiba stepped down and when infantile, power-hungry people start criticising Tutu.
It also irks me when whites are told that we have not reconciled. We have reconciled (and given up) plenty to make this country work and to steer it away from apartheid. But when blacks say that we still need to reform, then you can see how blatantly unappreciative the blacks. After all we were the ones that gave up our power without a blood bath. Blacks just don't seem to understand that

Anna 11/12/2009 9:55:37 AM
I also miss the old South Africa, and I am not talking about the apartheid era but the newly "freed" South Africa. I miss living in a home without burglar proofing. I miss sitting out in the garden at night without worrying about thugs attacking. I miss going out alone at night without the concern of being hijacked or rapped or shot for my cellphone. I miss reading the good news in the papers. I miss having to lock everything away. Please can we have our beautiful, friendly, caring and sharing country back?

Kick Ass 11/12/2009 9:58:46 AM
Most of us want this country to flourish and this can only be achieved by working together. Unfortunately we have negative wankers like SimonP.

Juan 11/12/2009 9:59:29 AM
sa has become EXACTLY what PW, Verwoerd and Vorster warned us it would become. WHAT DO YOU EXPECT when you hand a beautiful country over to a troop of terrorist thugs? less rape and muder!? BWAHAHAAHA!

Deon 11/12/2009 10:02:19 AM
What's there to miss when you have so much to hate about the current situation,the government and how the 'majority' have pulled assest and infrastructure of this country through their asses!!!???

Sganja@Author 11/12/2009 10:03:56 AM
Nice story I miss that too,but you should have excluded ANCYL from your points,thats were you went wrong.other than that well done.

Mass 11/12/2009 10:04:08 AM
I still cannot understand why it is that people like portraying SA as this country in the brink of collapse. True, we have our own issues and challenges on many fronts, but we definitely not in crisis. There are many positives to talk about. People come and go and we certainly cannot let our spirits brought down by somebody like Terrablanche or Malema who are not in governmnet. Pres Zuma is embracing and doing fairly well as a president. The interventions to combat crime will certainly bear fruits in the not distant future, the investigations on currupt activities by the building contractors intitiated by the Housing dept is a positive sign, the councillors who are being put under suveillelance by the local government department are welcome and will ensure the appointed/elected people act with cautiousness and responsibiility. There are many positive initiatives.

spaceballs 11/12/2009 10:06:56 AM
you know what I miss...

* sleeping with my window open.
* electricity
* good roads
* uncorrupt officials
* well kept parks
* safe neighbourhoods
* clean beaches
* traffic lights that work
* not being scared if i hear a noise in my home
* not having to apologize because I am white


Zuntino@John 11/12/2009 10:07:21 AM
Well said, brilliantly put!!! That is how I think, or how I'd like to belive, how everyone feels deep down but ironically don't have the balls to say so, it's actually easier to pass the buck now onto racism... I feel sorry for Madiba, in his last years he gets to see how this country is destroying his dream of a united nation.

Shame on all of us! Me included!

I still have hope though... good on ya John...

Zizo @ Juan 11/12/2009 10:11:22 AM
My dear friend, you are always up in arms attacking the party of the majority. You are yet to write an article and outline what your alternative will provide the nation with. If DA puts a good long term plan about the country and clarify all matters that are of concern to blacks, I might give them a chance to rule parts of the country. WC is their test, if they pass they will earn our trust but I guess they already started on the wrong footing. Criticism makes the ANC stronger and shows the poor people that the ANC is actually a victim to all these plots by the "right wings". The poor people will protect the ANC by voting them into power again in 2014.

LSA 11/12/2009 10:11:24 AM
Those days are never coming back. Once things start going bad they never recover. We went from best country in Africa nad one of the best in the world to mediocre. Things are only gonna get worse. Then once these thieves ahve drained the country of all its resources and there is anarchy, they are goona take their stolen riches from the tax and live a life of luxury in China, and leave the masses to fend for themselves. I predict that all the cities will be desrted. There will clouds of dust and smoke from all the fighting and South Africa will become a desert on the south of Africa with no inhabitants!!!!!

Johan Britz @ Sganja 11/12/2009 10:11:49 AM
Hows this for a revelation... Hows about the ANC YOUTH league actually talk about something that concerns the YOUTH? I don't think I've ever heard that. Getting their noses stuck into stuff where it shouldn't be, Eskom, ASA etc. Has anyone ever heard Julius tell the township kids to go to school and stop throwing the windows out with stones? Nope.

SimonP@Kick Ass 11/12/2009 10:13:07 AM
Im a wanker why? Read the posts of Zizo, Tumelo, Samsam, Poloyatonki, Halfwise etc. They want exactly what I stated, call it negativity or call it reality.

Zuntino@Mass 11/12/2009 10:14:34 AM
English: Initiative noun - a first step or move that leads the way.

English: Action noun - Something done.

It's all nice and pretty and very 'Barney the dinosaur' like to have initiative, it's a whole other thing to act on those initiatives, something only Madiba has done so far...

LSA@spaceballs 11/12/2009 10:15:12 AM
I also miss that. Its all a distant memory now, never to return. We are living in hell now!!!

@ @SimonP 9:38:51 11/12/2009 10:16:32 AM
I did not mention the world, I only referred to SA.
You reckon the majority want this country to be better, the]n why the hell did the majority vote for the ANC?

LovingLife 11/12/2009 10:16:53 AM
I miss the "old" South Africa; it was part of the "old" world; the population of the planet has increased vastly over the last 60 years and Africa is full of desperate, poverty stricken people; many of whom heard about the garden of eden further South and the ANC opened up the borders and welcomed them to consume already scarce resources and compete for already scarce jobs; you don't have to be Nostradamus to predict the future for South Africa.

Gerry 11/12/2009 10:23:39 AM
A quick analysis for all white people as to what went wrong with our beautiful country.
Immidiately after the Freedom of the black people all the peace loving SAfricans wen't in to a celebratory mood . This caused us to loose sight of all the other challenges that would be facing us soon . Joblessness, Crime,Economic inequality ,etc.etc.
When we finally opened our eyes it was already too late .The ANC does not really mean harm to you guys , it just trying to find ways to also uiplift the previuosly disadvantaged . The bigger challenge is that withing its own ranks it has a big majority who fall in to that class and they want fo feel how it is like to be financially self-sufficient, this leads to corruption. The good news ,is that the ruling party has identified this problem and in my openion are trying as hard as possible to root out such individuals. This would take time as the problem has now become bigger.The other problem is that the DA has not really told Black people what they want to hear , it has instead blamed everything that the ANC has and pleanned to do , which the majority support because they have been made to believe it is. Some of us Blacks acknnowlege the good in Helen Zille , but we just believe there are enough racists within the DA , that it becomes difficult to even vote for it.In this country race is a very sensitive issue and any amount of criticism of the ANC should be done with caution , lest you attract some negative publicity.We all want the best for this country.I believe also that Black people have reached out to Whites but the latter are keeping their distance.Simple things like learning to communicate in our languages would certainly go a long way . Fo the record : I am not ANC .

Glock 22 11/12/2009 10:26:30 AM
South Africans cant handle the truth. You state the truth then your negative or a wanker. Grow balls all of you and face reality. Being postive is one thing , Being blind is another they worlds apart. !

Tsotsi 11/12/2009 10:33:14 AM
The powers to be tells you WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR... so that THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. Call me stupid but I'm not falling for that. Like Juan said so many times about the "Menestahs" and their outrageous expensive taste. If you are educated you can add one to one can't you... Or can you only make a cross.. at the wrong place?!

Dries 11/12/2009 10:37:51 AM
John, read "SA the good news" it is not stupid propaganda, mmmm ok so maybe it is.

South African 11/12/2009 10:40:13 AM
Eish, I miss those days too! The problem is that all Sout Africans are stupid! They are stupid because they allowed politicians to divide them for their selfish interests! So next time you wanna complain, don't blame anyone because you have brought everything upon yourself. You were made to believe everything this idiots politicians tell you, how can you? Don't you people have brains of your own? Shane on you South Africans! I enjoy every minute of my life because I don't give a shit what politicians say, I don't listen to them!

anne 11/12/2009 10:41:11 AM
@Gerry - I fully agree, you are so right. I am really very impressed with the changes that our president has made, but I hope and whish he would do more and that he will not be ambushed by the others who do not want these changes/improvements to happen. Slowly things are turning, but it is up to us to help this change along. The biggest assistance would be to identify who is here illegally. That is one area which desperately needs attention as I believe these illegals do vote, steal and kill.

Fred Basset 11/12/2009 10:47:29 AM
@Gerry - very well put - you have my respect!

Eles 11/12/2009 10:50:24 AM
@ Sganja please explain to me what the ANC youth league do? Why do you look up to them? I am been honest in my request for an explanation I have never heard the ANCYL encourage any youths to actually work hard and apply themselves just interference in situations such as caster and eskom and playing the race card and inspiring hatred. I cannot respect the organisation at all. What good have they done, people say he speaks up half the time it is has been proven he has lied. Again please tell me what you support about the ANCYL?

kolobe 11/12/2009 10:56:30 AM
canada is waiting for you.i dont know why you people whine so much and still stick around

SimonP@Mass 11/12/2009 10:57:57 AM
You "cannot understand why it is that people like portraying SA as this country in the brink of collapse" Em let me think...BECAUSE IT IS! look at the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, it is a mess and this country is initiating the exact same policies as the messed up countries.

POST MY COMMENTS PLEASE 11/12/2009 10:59:53 AM
Eish @the author will those days ever come back :(

Martin 11/12/2009 11:01:20 AM
I miss the days when people were appointed and done the job unlike kolobe who gets paid for doing nothing but spewing brainless nonsense on a blog where most people understand the issue at hand!

HAhahaha 11/12/2009 11:04:43 AM
wow, seriously, are you wearing hemp clothes with flowers in your hair and smoking weed all day ?

Seriously... grow up, stop wishing for things in the past, be proactive and do something about it

crybabies honestly.

Tebogo to Kolobe 11/12/2009 11:07:52 AM
Kolobe go and wallow in the dirty mud like your namesake. I am an ANC member and I know that the racims that you vomit every day here in not the ANC' Policy you stupid wanker

Gerry 11/12/2009 11:08:24 AM
@anne Youd be amazed at this , but Sometime last year I met someone , a girl to be precise , who said she was from Zim
.I could gather that she was here illegally because everytime I was with her she would bring up something about what if she were to get arrested . Even though I did not ask why she was asking such a question , I assumed that she could be here illegally .And come election time , lo and behold , she was in the line well ahead of me .To this day , I never saw her again. Tells you something , doesn't it.

bones 11/12/2009 11:09:21 AM
@gerry /salute

JUST A THOUGHT 11/12/2009 11:13:18 AM
Did we have the ANCYL in 1994????????????

@kolobe 11/12/2009 11:17:24 AM
The author states he wants a crime free, corruotion free, peaceful prosperous country. Your answer? Leave. Does that mean you dont want what the author wants? If so WHY?

Gerry OST MY COMMENTS PLEASE @Gerry 11/12/2009 11:18:17 AM
Gerry 11/12/2009 10:23:39 AM....EXCELLENT COMMENT

POST MY COMMENTS PLEASE @kolobe 11/12/2009 11:21:29 AM
kolobe 11/12/2009 10:56:30 AM....Oh kolobe why are you always telling people to go to Canada, the article is about "I miss........." I dont see any response to the article of people wanting to leave....if you like using "Canada" so much in your comments would you like to go there hmmmmmm :)

POST MY COMMENTS PLEASE @Gerry 11/12/2009 11:23:03 AM
Do you mean the illegals vote as well, are they allowed to do that, or do they vote to stay????????

twisted 11/12/2009 11:37:14 AM
When more than 65% of the population is younger than Malema why would you not expect to hear from the youth league. Funny I've haven't ever had much luck with polite cops.
Relax, concentrate on your own life.

francois 11/12/2009 11:38:09 AM
have a another prozac

trev2@kolobe 11/12/2009 11:38:51 AM
The reason why they whine but still stick around and don't move to Canada is because they love South Africa and want it to succeed. You obviously hate South Africa because all your comments seem to be hateful and aimed at stirring up division.

MMM 11/12/2009 11:44:59 AM
Well the honeymoon stage is over, the real relationship has started.

Gerry 11/12/2009 11:49:44 AM
@POST MY COMMENTS PLEASE , they do , believe you me and some of us don't even know where to go when we suspect that something is fishy.They obtain ID's by ways only known to them.I know of some of those but unfortunately its not easy to go on asking people how they obtained their Id's , only cops can do that.

Shrek 11/12/2009 12:01:53 PM
@ Gerry - Brilliant, well said. Perhaps the solution is new political parties with refreshing ideas on how to run the country. There are world class leaders in business that I believe would make excellent ministers/political leaders... people like Lazarus Zim, Sizwe Nxasana (CEO First Rand),etc. We are facing new challenges, stiffer competition from China/India for foreign investments, global economy, providing basic needs to people, etc and maybe, just maybe, new parties with these intellectuals at the helm will have better ways of addressing the problems we face.
@ Kolobe - be careful of encouraging people to leave SA - implications: less taxes, unemployment, loss of buying power, creation of new jobs, foreign investments, less manufacturing output, etc. Put these concepts together & you may then realise, god willing, the implications of people leaving SA.

Olebogeng 11/12/2009 12:05:57 PM
The election was how many months ago and you still have not accepted the results?! I also did not vote for the ANC, but I do not call the people that did sheep, stupid,uneducated , etc - majority rules and they got the most votes. The DA is never going to rule this land - accept it! And please, the daily complaints do not help forge peace - they only irritate and achieve the opposite of what you intend (calling all blacks lazy upsets all blacks and not just the JZ fans).

@KOLOBE 11/12/2009 12:09:05 PM
Why should we move, its as much our country as anyone elses BUT its exactly your mentality that has got this country to its knees!

Judy 11/12/2009 12:27:16 PM
Brilliant read, I too long for what I believe we can be. Right alongside you John!

TNC 11/12/2009 12:27:28 PM
@Juan - How about you vacate your house & go to Canada like the rest them? Africa is now AFRICA like it was supposed to.

fedup 11/12/2009 12:29:12 PM
another useless article, opening up a forum to bash the ANC. dont you guys get tired??honestly its getting really tired now!! ill tell you my wish: i wish you guys would gather yourselves together' the so called tax payers' get yourselves one way tickets to oblivion, and leave us alone already. its fine if you believe we will end up like zimbabwe,what do you care, just leave already!!!ENOUGH NOW!!!!

Mallyg 11/12/2009 12:51:16 PM
There must be a successful black-run country somewhere in Africa from which our leaders can draw wisdom … surely. A truly great article John, it snapped me into thinking about the depths of utter despair we have sunk to in this beautiful country. Are we headed the same way as Mugabe’s donkey-land?

ands@Gerry 11/12/2009 12:54:52 PM
Nicely put Gerry, I appreciate your view. I also do not believe that the DA has the correct makeup to represent South Africa. I voted for them because it would help with the whole 2/3 rds majority thing. Last night I watched "The big debate " on Enews. There was a certain Dr Mamphela Ramphele who was involved in the debate this lady blew me away. All the Jaun's and the like need to listen to these people they are more aware of the needs in our country than Helen Zille.This country has people who can take this country forward for every one....we just need to get the current bunch out.

Tax Payer 11/12/2009 1:02:02 PM
Only TAX PAYERS should be allowed to vote... End of story...

@Shrek 11/12/2009 1:04:16 PM
You are asking kolobe to think? He thinks all whites should leave and then he will have their land so he can.......watch it crumble while he gets relief from the evil west.

NvV 11/12/2009 1:14:03 PM
The new SA was a model of what can be achieved through negotiation and good will. This was a model many countries in the world cannot achieve partly because those in power refuses to let go. Many countries only have two parties or groups or ethnic representation and fail to do what SA did with our diversity. I must stress that it was the willing seller (NP) that sold to the insisting buyers the rights of many for so little in return. The majority of the buyers still have not received the goods while the sellers are still paying and paying and praying. Sorry I digress. Point is that the citizens would like to have a country to be proud of. Maybe then we will not say I want but will say I share.

@kolob 11/12/2009 1:17:53 PM
we should drive poeple like you out of south africa

Here-to-stay@kolobe 11/12/2009 1:19:24 PM
Dear Kolobe. Why should I leave instead of trying to make this beautiful country a better place for all of us to live? I wish everyone with your attitude would rather leave and make it possible for people who care about South Africa to achieve something. Your divisive and racist comments make it clear that you do not care what becomes of our home.

Koochie @ Juan 11/12/2009 1:31:03 PM
Read earlier you were planning to leave SA?? Cant wait to see the back of you! Leave already, you are a miserable, racist, pessimistic prick!!

KD7 11/12/2009 1:31:32 PM
@Zizo
i think you need to wake up along with the rest of the country. the only reason why the ANC is in power is because it keeps on promising things it cannot deliver! free houses free this free that, and unfortunately there are still the majority of people out there who truly believe them. the DA is not about to start promising things it cannot deliver just to get the votes!
One thing i will agree with is that more whites should vote. they keep on complaining about the ruling parties, but when time comes to vote they dont! sometimes quoting the excuse that it wont change anything if they do or dont vote

KD7 11/12/2009 1:38:36 PM
@Gerry
wake up Gerry, you actually said the words yourself. the DA doesnt tell the blacks what they WANT TO HEAR! no, they tell the truth! the ANC for sure tells the blacks what they want to hear, but cannot deliver!!
i am so tired of all this apartheid stuff! how long will it carry on!! it is so easy to say you have failed or things have failed because of the apartheid era, instead of owning up to the fact that its because we are too used to just sitting back! own up, grab your own future!

KD7 11/12/2009 1:41:22 PM
@gerry
so i am taking it also that you think that all this wasteful money the ministers and people in power for unnecessary things is justified instead of putting it toward the people like they promised to do??

KD7 11/12/2009 1:43:07 PM
@ kolobe
you say canada is waiting for us.. perhaps it is waiting for you? we actually love our country, this is why we make such comments, we want to save our country from the slide that its in!

NvV @ kolobe 11/12/2009 2:34:23 PM
Kolobe, you are so funny. That’s why we tolerate you here. If we want to leave we will leave when it suits us and not at your request. You sound like the little housefly irritatingly trying to park on any surface where there is food for free. Luckily the average lifespan of these houseflies are 72 hours. It is also fun zapping them with these electric tennis rackets or just the nearest Huisegenoot. Fly on and watch where you’re going. Do not sit on any boerewors or biltong please.

NvV @ kolobe 11/12/2009 2:37:15 PM
Kolobe, you are so funny. That’s why we tolerate you here. If we want to leave we will leave when it suits us and not at your request. You sound like the little housefly irritatingly trying to park on any surface where there is food for free. Luckily the average lifespan of these houseflies are 72 hours. It is also fun zapping them with these electric tennis rackets or just the nearest Huisegenoot. Fly on and watch where you’re going. Do not sit on any boerewors or biltong please.

HC 11/12/2009 4:02:20 PM
"Rainbow Nation" (just like democrazy) was only a smokescreen to mesmerize the nation. A vehicle to get closer to the country's cash registers. The new vehicles? BMW's, Range Rovers, etc.

The scan 11/13/2009 8:05:57 AM
If only most of the idiots who leave these naive and short sighted comments could leave the country for good!

@The scan 11/13/2009 10:28:49 AM
Fool. I have left and can still comment. Is your real name The Brain Scan?
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