South Africa going the way of Zimbabwe?

[John_Mace]

@MrDibble

So, I guess this thread is going to just disappear without any more input from the OP, and the next time there’s some factually-challenged racist piece of yellow journalism about SA, a new thread will spring up like Venus from the sea foam* - probably titled something like “So, Is South Africa Turning Into Zimbabwe? Just Asking For A Friend!”

(that’s a only-SA-people-are-likely-to-get-it joke)

You can’t leave us in suspense like that. You are now obligated to explain the joke!

[MrDibble]

'Mlungu is the street-slang for “white person”. It means “sea foam”, since that’s where white people often came from historically.

It also, according to Wikipedia, means the foamy scum around the genitals of a cow in heat. That’s quite a bit less complementary, but isn’t the meaning I learned.

[John_Mace]

Thanks! Love those kind of anecdotes.

[jtur88]

The most difficult thing to do these days is to set political correctness aside when you evaluate historical facts on the ground. But it would still behoove you to try. Carry on.

[mhendo]

At whom are you aiming your comment? Because in the context of this thread, it’s currently a model of obscurity.

[jtur88]

@mhendo

At whom are you aiming your comment? Because in the context of this thread, it’s currently a model of obscurity.

I address my remarks to anyone whose view of the history and evolution of Africa is influenced by an overlay of political correctness added at a later date.

[MrDibble]

So, no-one in this thread, then?

[mhendo]

@jtur88

I address my remarks to anyone whose view of the history and evolution of Africa is influenced by an overlay of political correctness added at a later date.

Well i’m not sure what you’re doing in this thread then, because that hasn’t happened here. Thanks for your contribution, though.

[jtur88]

@mhendo

Well i’m not sure what you’re doing in this thread then, because that hasn’t happened here. Thanks for your contribution, though.

Try Post 17:
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The Country Squire article is complete and utter racist horseshit.
As another white South African, I fully agree. This is far-right racist propaganda.*

Nope, no danger of any politically correct comments in this well balanced thread.

[MrDibble]

@jtur88

Try Post 17:
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The Country Squire article is complete and utter racist horseshit.
As another white South African, I fully agree. This is far-right racist propaganda.*

Nope, no danger of any politically correct comments in this well balanced thread.

You think “utter racist horseshit” is a *politically correct *comment? You have no fucking clue what the term means, then.

[WilyQuixote]

@jtur88

Try Post 17:
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The Country Squire article is complete and utter racist horseshit.
As another white South African, I fully agree. This is far-right racist propaganda.*

Nope, no danger of any politically correct comments in this well balanced thread.

Dismissing blatantly racist horseshit as blatantly racist horseshit is not being “politically correct”.

[puzzlegal]

I visited South Africa several years ago, shortly before the World Cup was hosted there. I was shocked by the degree of racial tension, and I wondered if the nation might fall apart after the World Cup. (I was also impressed by the excitement looking forward to hosting.) Glad to hear it’s hasn’t. I would still be uncomfortable moving there.

[MrDibble]

@puzzlegal

I visited South Africa several years ago, shortly before the World Cup was hosted there. I was shocked by the degree of racial tension

You would have been completely blown away by 80s South Africa, then…

[mhendo]

@jtur88

Try Post 17:
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The Country Squire article is complete and utter racist horseshit.
As another white South African, I fully agree. This is far-right racist propaganda.*

Nope, no danger of any politically correct comments in this well balanced thread.

Just out of interest, what is your take on the article posted in the OP? Do you believe that it accurately reflects the situation in modern South Africa? Would you care to give us your analysis, which would, of course, be nicely balanced and untainted by any subjective considerations or “political correctness”?

[puzzlegal]

Probably. I will say that South Africa had extraordinary physical beauty, and I took about a trillion photos when there.

[up_the_junction]

We need a new thread don’t we: Is Zimbabwe going the way of South Africa?

Zimbabwe's Mugabe 'under house arrest' after army takeover

[ctnguy]

@up_the_junction

We need a new thread don’t we: Is Zimbabwe going the way of South Africa?

You were not alone in that thought.

[Hector_St_Clare]

Zimbabwe isn’t even going the way of Zimbabwe any more. Mugabe is in military custody.

[up_the_junction]

@ctnguy

You were not alone in that thought.

Damn: Beaten like an opposition voter on election day!

[jtur88]

@mhendo

Just out of interest, what is your take on the article posted in the OP? Do you believe that it accurately reflects the situation in modern South Africa? Would you care to give us your analysis, which would, of course, be nicely balanced and untainted by any subjective considerations or “political correctness”?

Nothing in this article surprises me. Ive been to every continent in this decade, and traveled Africa and the Mid East since the 60s. People are overwhelmingly of kind and generous spirit, but can also be taught to be unimaginably cruel.

I spent three months in southern Africa, when Zimbbwe was Ian Smith’s Rhodesia, and my Soweto living room hosts never imagined Apartheid would be any different. That doesn’ mean I know all the answers, it just mean’s I’ve heard a lot of the questions, that nobody ever asks anymore.