Comments on: Reasons Why You Don’t Want To Live In South Africa

By: Black Foot

Black Foot — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:39:43 +0000

Really nice country full of really crappy people, including most of the government, police, and every state run organisation including the state hospitals. The military and police are little more than welfare organisations for lazy no-gooders. Hell, we have functionaly illiterate “officers” in our military, and low ranks that openly tell their superiors to “Eff Off”.
Outright hatred for the europeans is even openly spouted by the so-called politicians, and everyone blames the whites for the poor living standards of the so-called blacks. Who did these blacks blame for their poor living standards prior to the arrival of the whites ? They had nothing, not even a written language.

You will find some 20% of the black population have managed to work their way out of the gutter by sheer hard work, but often, elements from their own nation try to pull then back in.

Civilized (read wealthy) black people regard the masses as being poor due to them being too damn lazy to get an education or actually do some real work, and, in many cases, actually despise them.

The black on black crime level is largely unreported and super-staggeringly high. Black on white crime is reported and is also staggeringly high. Virtually all areas are no-go areas after dark - especially the large cities. Daylight robbery such as at traffic lights is also a large problem. Stop your car and the windows are smashed and goods grabbed. Alternatively, a knife or firearm is held to your head while you are robbed. Consider yourself lucky if you don’t get shot. Criminals are released on minimal bail (prisons are overcrowded) and they return to get revenge on those who reported them (including the initial victims). The police serve to protect the corrupt government officials, and many of those in uniform are criminals too. The rate of lost firearems by this so-called police force is mind boggling, with over 18 000 lost (or sold to criminals friends) across a period of seven years. Only 54 people were convicted for the loss of their weapons during the same period. Wow, that really sums things up, doesn’t it.

Life is worth nothing in Africa, and that includes South Africa. You can get murdered for just refusing to hand over a cheap cellphone, or even your school lunch money.
Corruption and nepotism in the government is so high that a recent study found that around 75% of tenders go to family and friends. Whistle-blowers are targetted and often killed.
Automatic teller machines are blown up (explosives) on a regular basis, cash in transit robberies are no longer front page news, and bribery is the national past-time.
Need one say more about this shithole ?

By: curiousabtafrica

curiousabtafrica — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:43:32 +0000

i want to respond to the last comment from - aFlowerUnfolds.

I would like to reach out to you because i can tell your comments came from the heart. It really breaks my heart that you feel this way. I would like to know more about your country especially from your perspective. Please email me should you get back on this site. My email is ck2010@usa.com

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:50:51 +0000

I was a Rhodesian until the uprisings started in Bulawayo in 1978 and I moved down to Johnanesburg, where slowly but surely history started repeating itself.
Rhodesia became Zimbabwe ( Zimbabwe Ruins) and most of us burned our houses and left rather than hand them over to people who didn’t want to buy them, just break in shoot you and your family and just take over.
Zimbabwe has two black tribes that do not like each other.South Africa has about 13 and they all hate each other and fight for power, although they are the same colour. All you see on TV is the beautiful game reserves, but I lived there and was stabbed and nearly raped. Why? because I am white.. I could not go out alone even carrying a gun( I am a white female).I could not carry cash or a handbag or jewellery. My house had high barbed wire fences and security cameras. I carried a gun everywhere and was always looking over my shoulder.
Who the hell want to live like that? At the latest footage of 100 years of the ANC there were no white people at all.The whites and blacks do not get along.There are too many cultural differences.I am tired of hearing the ANC say the can’t get the country right because of the past apartheid. They just cannot run a country and never will be able to. They forget that in apartheid days everyone had jobs and the violent crime rate was very low.Now look at it! I noted that a lot of black people left the ANC 100 year celebrations so that speaks for itself.
I have seen people burned alive on the roadsides so If you want to live in fear and behind locked doors please emigrate there.If you can survive it is cheap as chips, but at a very high cost.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:19:28 +0000

It’s a good looking place, but let’s face the truth.
Over 3000 white farmers have been murdered in S.A. over the last 20 or so years. That’s as many people as were killed in the well publicised Northern Ireland Troubles that lasted 30 years. All the “positive mental attitude” in the world isn’t going to sort out the problems gripping the country and it is only getting worse.

By: Langa

Langa — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:27:49 +0000

Yes South Africa might not be the perfect country that it been considered to be and it the worst country in the whole worl. Indeed it is run by Africans which makes it even worse. What i pick from mainly the white is it was ok when we were under oppression, it was ok when we were consired the less than humans and worse than animals.

My belief is if you are a white person with an apartheid mentality leaving in this country and feel that this country is not for you than LEAVE and go back wherever you come from and never look back. we are in Africa we have our problems and we trying the best that we can to sought our problems the best we can. We never claimed to be the first world country.

By: wynand

wynand — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 07:06:08 +0000

I’m 16, and living in south africa. It makes me sick to think about what’s going on in my country. My intention is not to point fingers but most crimes are commited by blacks, eg. Farm murders, house breaking. Most of my aunts or uncles were robbed or almost robbed(just in the run of a month). And every case. They were black my whole family are considering guns . They(blacks) think were in a more favourable position. Which isn’t nessecarily true. I love south africa and I love its history . Cultures. And diversity. But crime, polygamy(zuma). Corruption and ruin are some of the many words that are senonymous with south africa. Don’t want to leave. But fear that someday it might come to that

By: Betsie Goncalves

Betsie Goncalves — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:29:38 +0000

Sjoe, how many thoughts about South Africa. It also depends where one lives in this country. We live near the Kruger Park, and how nice to wake up in the mornings with the sound of nature, and the most wonderful winters. Summers are very very hot. All these added things make one forget about all the politics and crimes in this country. What a beautiful part of the world we live in. Of course, don’t give me Johannesburg, I will not be happy there. When you come to live in this country, search for the place where you will be happy in South Africa. All over the world there are good and bad people. There is a lot of hard work to be done in South Africa. In time we will be winners!

By: GovisUseless

GovisUseless — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:46:55 +0000

Well, who actually gives a shit regarding the colour of the controlling power in this “Now becoming a shithole” of a country.
Its not because we are ruled by “black” people that the country is falling apart. Its falling apart because mostly non of the population want to work, and want everything handed to them on a silver platter.
People in power, have no education thats worth mentioning. How can un-educated people make educated decisions of whats best for the people? How can un-educated powers make educated discissions on how schools must be run, and how / what children must learn.
When i matriculated you needed a 50% pass minimum on all subjects, if not - u repeated the year. Now guess what, you only need 30% to pass matric? what does that tell you.

Not only is the “powers that be” un-educated, but the future leaders will have less education. This to me means we are going to spiral out of control and follow suit of zimbabwe!!!

I mean 17 years have passed and all people can do is bitch, moan and accuse the appartheid age! I mean really, that excuse has become as old and boring as bob mugabe!!!
Instead of bitching - act on it!! Get the country moving forward, lets grow and become strong.

For goverment - lets drop the colour shit you like to blame things on, and swollow some pride, lets get the people in that know what they doing to assist, train and educate you all so that you can stand alone and do the right things!! Make the right decissions!!

How great it would be if ie. Zuma got crime, corruption, jobs back to where is must be!! I would be the first person to shake that mans hand if he got it right!! Damn it man - i would pay double taxes to have great education for my children, safe streets for them to play on, and knowing that they will have a job to enter into in the future!!

Get rid of corruption and the crime, lose the attitude that people owe you something, drop the pride - lets ALL work together, stand together and help each other make the right decisions.

Then, and only then will the light shine on this country.
So RSA goverment - grow a spine, get help and make this a great success story!!!

By: Allan of Aus

Allan of Aus — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 05:51:36 +0000

I employ several South Africans in Australia and find them to be the laziest breed I have had the misfortune of ever meeting and yes they are white. They have totally stuffed up their own country and now want to come running to places like Australia for handouts and to be looked after . Stay where you are all of you and take your well deserved medicine of rape and murder as you should

By: aFlowerUnfolds

aFlowerUnfolds — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 16:10:27 +0000

Hi,
I’ve stumbled upon this website, while trying to find something inspirational, something that will give me hope for the future.I did not find it here at all. I am a 28 white South African female,I feel ashamed of some of the things said here, and offended by comments made by non South Africans, White South Africans and black South Africans. Anyways, I would like to give you my point of view. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s. I was 7 years old when Mandela was released from Robben Island. During that time I heard the grown ups talk about Mandela , and I remember asking my mother, what did he do that he was sent to jail ? She replied that he was a terrorist and he killed people. Well, me and my mom NOW know that the only thing he did “wrong” was figthing for something he believed in, fighting for freedom and equal opportunities for all. As a child I did not know anything about the politics, and yes we did have a black maid, but I never thought anything weird about it, all I cared about was playing games outside with my friends, children stuff. In 1994 I was 11 years old when Mandela became president. I was scared, because I was told he was a bad person…all the grown ups was so paranoid. I was in high school , learning a poem about apartheid when I really first understood what aparheid was really about. I remember sitting in English class, feeling ashamed of being white. As I got older I started reading more about Mandela and I realised what a great human being he is. So much love and compassion. It is so amazing that one person who struggled, faught and then sent to a prison took something so fucking negative and turned it into something positive. I do sometimes think that it’s so unfair to be punished for something that you were not apart of. Being punished for the previous generation’s mistakes and now worring about getting a job because of my skin color, yes skin color! And not because of my skills, kind heart etc.But then I think, well how unfair was apartheid? Well, I am stuck in South Africa and yes, I wish I had an opportunity to go live in another country, but I’d rather want to live it here and want South Africa to change into something better for all. Allot of black South Africans say that South Africa is not my country because I am white.( even though I was born here.) If South Africa is not my country, to which country do I belong to then?Allot of bad things are happening in SA, crime rape curruption ,and the thing that makes me the angriest and saddest is leaders who are suppose to look after the country and the people, -are looking after themselves instead. We need a good leader, someone loving and compassionate who really cares about the people and not the money and power. I think the reason for all the crime and curroption is because of incompetant leaders not doing what is right, making wrong decisions and using money to benefit themselves rather than looking after the poor. Aswell as people like Julius Malema, who keep holding on to apartheid/the past, blaming everything thats going on now on something that happened in the past. And not even trying to NOT make the same mistakes the old government made. I just wish everyone was more accepting, understanding, forgiving and loving towards one another, but instead there is hate ,resentment and disrespect towards others that are different. (AS you can see on this website) Basicly all I want at the end is a place I can call home, where I feel safe and wanted. The real big enemy here is evil- , hate, , selfishness resentment, and all of that creates, poverty, murder, rape. Is being different really such a huge problem, is over coming our difference bigger than the mutual goal or dream of living in peace (living without poverty and crime)?