You are living in an illusion if you think that millions of people will be somehow magically put into the middle class. It won't happen in your life time or your childrens lifetime. If you were living in China or India, I would say this may be possible sooner rather than later. Alas you live in Africa and if it ever does happen it will be much much later. Say maybe 2000 years. (I exagerate, but you get my point don't you?)
That part I do agree with - never said that it would happen in a short period of time, and yes I do agree that the ANC is a slow moving party. But to the majority of South Africans they would rather have this government than an apartheid one.
Do you realize what you are saying? As bad as the previous stupid government was, you would prefer one that is dripping with corruption like honey dripping from a honey bee's hive. You prefer a goverment that only cares about itself and practises reverse racism and tolerates crime and murder and rape. I even read on a black south africans website that they are justifying crime saying that it is like a second wave of liberation to take back what was stolen from them by the settlers. You prefer a government that would swiftly fall like a rotten maggot sqirming over a dead corpse if put to the a vote in a country like Canada where people would never tolerate it's stupidity? You say you are informed. Are you really?
Yip that's pretty much what I'm saying and I'm sure there are alot of white South Africans with me on this. You obviously haven't been subjected to apartheid-type discrimination have you? Yes there are some question marks surrounding the race issue in AA/BEE (which I am against btw) but think of it this way: now the majority has more freedom (from having NO freedom) while the minority have less freedom (from having ALL the freedom) and the two meet somewhere inbetween there's bound to be some conflict.
Now before jumping to any conclusions, I'm in the minority too. However if you were a spoon-fed person and were given a Ferrari to drive for 50 years, and now had to make do with a Toyota, you would obviously be pissed off about it. Same principle applies here - it's not so much whites being discriminated against, it's more about the majority of blacks being given more rights than they used to have. Now they too are given Toyota's to drive, so as to create some form of balance. And if you feel that you're too high and mighty to be driving the same car as a black man, then you suffer from a superiority complex that was hardwired into your brain during apartheid.
So to answer your question - yes I do think I'm informed because I try to think of things from the perspective of other people as well, instead of being selfish and thinking from my own perspective which would benefit only me. If you are right and this place does turn into Zim (highly unlikely as their main industry is agriculture, as opposed to our many), then I will admit that I was stuffed up in my way of thinking and relocate. Some may argue it may be too late by then, but that's why it's always good to have a decent amount saved in case of emergencies.
However for now, I'm no psychic nor do I believe in predicting the future, so I will stay. If you guys want to relocate based on what
might happen because certain "signs" tell you so then go ahead. To me it's retarded to base one's actions on a hunch, but hey to each his own.
In a few years the ANC and their cohorts like Zuma will not just make up the government they will own it just like the Zimbabwe goon government of Bob Mugarbage.
As I said, I don't believe in fortune tellers, so we'll see what happens.
it's just that so many people use this point as the core of their perception of whites, that we were spoon fed, taken care of, given everything.
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