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The colonialists brought crime from Europe to Africa - Baleka Mbete
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It's very fashionable to bash colonialism and pretend that it was purely negative. Generally, this is indicative of feeble thinking.
There's also a misguided romance about primitive life.
Do these people realise that this was an environment where 30 would be considered a ripe old age? Where living much beyond 20 was an accomplishment only achieved by the few who didn't die as infants, or from an agonising death from what would today be consider minor medical issues, giving birth, infections, etc. Where finding food was a gruelling, dangerous ordeal? And you lived or died at the whim of a feudal leader?
There were no roads, solid structures for shelter, little entertainment, no legal protection from the principle of "might is right", no real healthcare. And while I'm sure that relatively speaking, many of those people lived fulfilling lives with loving relationships and family, would a single one of these vocal critics of colonisation give up any of the benefits that came along with the evil colonialists?
Of course they wouldn't give up all the benefits of colonialism that they enjoy today! They are supreme hypocrites, using western technology to relentlessly bash the west. They instead propound the ludicrous delusion that primitive societies, who had yet to invent writing, and in many cases the wheel, would somehow have developed their technology to the same level as the west if only they had been left alone. (And perhaps this is true - given another 10000 years). Or they revise history and make preposterous claims about how they really developed all the science and technology that the west stole. They point at a few stone walls in Zimbabwe and claim that this is evidence of some great African civilisation rivalling Wakanda.
It's sad, really, all this living in the past. Look at what has been achieved by those former colonies whose people embraced commerce and pragmatism and industry without wallowing in perpetual victimhood.
There's also a misguided romance about primitive life.
Do these people realise that this was an environment where 30 would be considered a ripe old age? Where living much beyond 20 was an accomplishment only achieved by the few who didn't die as infants, or from an agonising death from what would today be consider minor medical issues, giving birth, infections, etc. Where finding food was a gruelling, dangerous ordeal? And you lived or died at the whim of a feudal leader?
There were no roads, solid structures for shelter, little entertainment, no legal protection from the principle of "might is right", no real healthcare. And while I'm sure that relatively speaking, many of those people lived fulfilling lives with loving relationships and family, would a single one of these vocal critics of colonisation give up any of the benefits that came along with the evil colonialists?
Of course they wouldn't give up all the benefits of colonialism that they enjoy today! They are supreme hypocrites, using western technology to relentlessly bash the west. They instead propound the ludicrous delusion that primitive societies, who had yet to invent writing, and in many cases the wheel, would somehow have developed their technology to the same level as the west if only they had been left alone. (And perhaps this is true - given another 10000 years). Or they revise history and make preposterous claims about how they really developed all the science and technology that the west stole. They point at a few stone walls in Zimbabwe and claim that this is evidence of some great African civilisation rivalling Wakanda.
It's sad, really, all this living in the past. Look at what has been achieved by those former colonies whose people embraced commerce and pragmatism and industry without wallowing in perpetual victimhood.
I think you are bringing things into this thread that don't belong here?
So, we can take it you haven't been properly audited by SARS. Noted.
Where do you think money comes from?
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From my back.
I'm not biting, make your point.
I think you are bringing things into this thread that don't belong here?
So, we can take it you haven't been properly audited by SARS. Noted.
lol @ we
that says it all now doesn't it Mr saturnz is 60 or older
Mmmm - is social grants not negative income tax?
Not even close though I get what ur saying.
I am being serious.
Where do you think money comes from?
/care
TysonRoux
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Umm, lest you forget, you were the one who pulled out of the bet.
Then again, with your dagga-addled memory, you most probably have forgotten.
Nerfherder
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I watched the entire interview and she was absolutely roasted. I'm not sure if she expected it to go like that.
At one point they had her saying that she didn't know enough about Marikana to comment.
The best was when they asked about a comment another ANC leader made that "Nigerians are criminals and drug lords". She said... "well the problem is, they are".
and you ran away from the bet
all well and good, but Mehdi is sitting in a glass house
ArtyLoop
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This is extremely well written. And yes, this is the net effect of morons we have in power. They have no clue actually.. its easier for them to make these buffoon statements of theirs.
That's the thing with low IQ... it shines through, every time. No matter how thick the suit, or how thick the walls of the ivory tower are.
losta
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In those successfull colonies most of the indigenous population was massacred and replaced by white europeans...
joshuatree
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Should one cry or laugh ? I think we are beyond laughing...
What a dismal state of affairs.
What a dismal state of affairs.