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| From | Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Subject | Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! |
| Followup-To | comp.os.linux.networking |
| Date | 2013-03-11 21:09 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Strider |
| Message-ID | <khldje$5c2$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On Monday 11 March 2013 16:13, J G Miller conveyed the following to
comp.os.linux.networking...
> Op zondag, 10 mars, 2013, om 23:26:27u +0100, schreef Aragorn:
>
>> South Africa is no longer an Oranje-Vrijstaat. It has already been a
>> completely independent republic for quite some time.
>
> QUOTE
>
> Oranje Vrijstaat (Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat, Engels: Orange Free
> State) was van 1910 tot *1994* een provincie van Zuid-Afrika.
>
> UNQUOTE
>
> When the new ANC regime came to power in 1994, they redrew the map
> and abolished the four provinces including Oranje-Vrystaat, and
> created ten new ones, including a smaller Vrystaat.
>
> <http://nl.wikipedia.ORG/wiki/Vrijstaat_%28provincie%29>
>
> Hence Chris Glurr's continual reference to "failed state".
My apologies. I am quite familiar with South Africa as I have close
friends who live there, but I was under the impression that the term
Oranje-Vrijstaat was the Dutch name for South Africa before it became an
independent nation. I should have verified this first.
Also, I wasn't really aware that Chris Glurr was from South Africa. I
had assumed him British or North-American. Either way, he's in my
killfile, for multiple reasons, but most significantly his rudeness
towards people trying to humor him in.
> Incidentally RSA has an unemployment rate similar to that of Wallonie.
That's because the South African regime is imbued with corruption, just
like the Walloon Region - not that there isn't any corruption in the
Flanders Region or the Brussels Capitol Region either.
When South Africa abolished Apartheid and Nelson Mandela was elected
president of the republic, most South Africans had their hopes up very
high, but Mandela could only be president for two terms and he was too
old to run for elections again after the two terms of his successor
Thabo Mbeki. And Mbeki was quite a passive president without a clear
vision on how to handle the sudden shift in power when Apartheid ceased.
The ANC is the biggest political party in South Africa, but it isn't
really a political party by way of its vision, because it is just a
loose collective of freedom fighters from before the end of Apartheid,
and their common cause was the abolishment of Apartheid only, without
any consensus on where to take it from there. The only thing that
united the members of the ANC was their quest to get Apartheid abolished
and take away power from the white minority.
Many years of Apartheid and oppression from the white minority in South
Africa had created a very deep, brooding hatred, and suddenly this
oppression fell away, without a controlled transition into a fairly
organized society. Racism flourished both among the old proponents of
Apartheid and among the colored South Africans, and crime rates went up
drastically, as did corruption - which is itself also a crime, of
course. There is also a problem with refugees from Zimbabwe, who are
accused of stealing the jobs of the native South Africans, as well as a
problem with organized crime gangs moving in from other African nations
- mostly Nigerians, or so I've heard.
Mandela tried to make things right, but he didn't have enough time. HIs
successor Mbeki didn't do anything to make it right at all. And now
there's Jacob Zuma, someone who himself has already been accused of
crimes such as rape and corruption, and who doesn't have a political
vision either, except maybe something akin to the political convictions
and self-serving motivations of his despotic friend Robert Mugabe in
Zimbabwe.
The Rainbow Nation is up for grabs these days. It's a total chaos down
there. The cops are so afraid of the criminals that they either refuse
to come out when a crime is being reported, or that they take bribes.
Apartheid was wrong in every possible way and for ever possible reason,
but what has become of that beautiful country now is even worse.
It is sad. Very sad.
--
= Aragorn =
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Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-09 20:19 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-09 21:34 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-09 20:59 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! "Vince Coen" <VBCoen@gmail.com> - 2013-03-10 18:47 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-10 21:02 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-10 23:26 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-11 15:13 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-11 21:09 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-11 21:14 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-03-11 23:32 +0100
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-03-13 21:29 -0400
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-14 01:54 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-15 11:28 -0600
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-15 21:05 +0000
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! Alastair Black <abqab.nemo@example.net> - 2013-03-15 17:05 -0600
Re: Time to boycot the Ding-Dongs! J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-03-15 23:43 +0000
Re: Which SSL is links using? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2013-03-09 14:21 -0800
Re: Which SSL is links using? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-03-10 15:18 +0000
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