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to book on Arik or Aero you have to have a debit card from "naija" booking a flight online will be difficult.

However it is not a big deal when you arrive naija to go by one of their offices and pay even on the day of the flight.

Mind you the flights might be fully booked the day off but you are likely to get a seat if you book two to three days earlier.

Comon lets make this the most viewed video on nairaland

F(#(*K Tonto Dike!!!

This story and the man's behavior is extremely consistent with patients who suffer from chronic mental illness such as schizophrenia or schizo affective disorders. People with this ailment have incidents that trigger "episodes" and usually require escorts when traveling. The airline should have been notified.

NIGERIANS SHOULD STOP CALLING THESE PEOPLE MAD. Mental illness is not mental retardation.

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comment if you like video.

I can't believe this video ahs got only 18 views since yesterday. This shhit is viral now on the net and of course as usual Amebo naija interested in Totnot Dike's got awful video.

Naija na wa. Una too like una self o!

I can't stop smiling after watching this video. Ghana don collect prize for this one!!!

Where naija people o!

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You are right, only that 95% of the time the men are armed.

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Yep ya'll sure like to toi toi alot though!!!

Mr Ziggz

You seem an intelligent enough fellow so my advice would be try your luck and see what happens. If you truly intend on spending a short time in SA then by all means seek it out only know that it is possible you might get tempted to stay there. Seeing that you have never been there before you are not aware that SA is very comparable to Brazil in terms of living standards.

IF you do plan on re settling in Brazil for reasons it seems you have researched into then good luck to you.

The past has a harsh way of catching up with us eventually though.

ziqqz: Hey guys!

I have been back in Nigeria for about 5 months. I was removed from the USA while studying for a Master's degree in Hawaii, the reason being that I got involved with the wrong girl who was bent on punishing me for her own drunken mistake (details too much to go into, but I still feel sad that it may seem like I have only succeeded in contributing to nigerians' detrimental image abroad. fact is, I am not a bad person. I attended a private uni in 9ja for my bachelor's and had traveled widely in europe and north america before my last trip to the usa. i was just a victim of circumstance, and i have accepted my fate)
Well, back to the issue. I am trying again to get my life on track. I may be close to zero now, but i am working to secure a permanent residence visa for brazil, which i can do by simply investing $75,000 in that country. I can raise this sum in a few months, but until then, I want to stay out of 9ja before someone in my family (or close to my family) spots me in the country. (Oh, did I say that I refused to inform my family about my US palaver for fear of breaking their hearts. I will definitely tell them at a later date when I am better established). So I have decided to head up SA for about 3 months on a tourist visa. Ordinarily, and for my own reasons, SA would be the last place I would like to visit. But now that only an internet search with my names can reveal the trouble my US troubles, I am not even confident of going back to other european embassies that used to grant me visas, because they may ask or find out about my US conviction and possibly deny me visa.

I can only guess your crime must have involved a charge close to aggravated assault or aggravated battery or bodily injury. These convictions usually cary sentences greater than a year which would trigger deportation of an undesirable but then again I might be speculating. Your conviction will definitely pop up if you attempt visa's to developed countries in Europe, Australia and possibly Brazil. Brazil used to be a safe haven for individual who wanted to escape their past but with today's terrorism issues that is changing.

ziqqz: So, my questions are thus: Is the SA embassy strict about the company introduction letter? I am not employed in Nigeria and I have no plans of using forged documents. Does anyone think they will find out about my US conviction even if i don't mention it? My current epassport has the US study visa I came back with, but thankfully there is no deportation stamp on it, only a line across it drawn with a common pen and hand-written "cancelled", while my old passport is full with old visas and expired. I could go get a new epassport, but that would mean i will be treated as a virgin traveler. On the other hand, if I use the current epassport with the US visa, I risk being asked about why it has cancelled written on it. So do you think I should go with fresh epassport or continue with my current one with the US visa on it? And finally, do you think the embassy ask me to get a police clearance from US since I stayed there well over 6 months?

Let me restate please, i have no plan on settling in SA. I just want to be away from 9ja while I generate the funds necessary for my Brasil residence visa (I trade FX so pls do not think I do yahoo yahoo). SA will give me the steady power supply I need, a conducive environment without the fear of boko haram bomb etc.

I could go on, but I guess I have written too much already. I ask for your understanding if/when you reply. I do not ask to be judged. I ask your compassion and brotherly/sisterly feedback.

Thank you in advance of your favorable response(s)

The applications for Visa's to South Africa require police clearance for places where you have lived after the age of 18th so you might be asked to produce you might not. I know because I have an accountance who fled the US when he was charged with a crime. He disappeared into Europe but cannot find a Job or travel to some countries because the information from the US comes up on background checks.

TerryCarr: no their not

long story short the "bantus" went into the south mixed with the Khoisan to some the degree and got "clicks" the than a few 100 years later the whites came mixed with the Khoisan, and blacks and there Asian slaves to create "Coloured" yes there was conflict but when is there never?

The above reason is why the "settler' story of the Europeans discovering vast empty lands is implausible because several Inland tribes had already arrived there and intermingled with the Khoi.

Correction; They did not DISPLACE the Khoi, they ABSORBED them which is why clicks are heaviest in Xhosa language.

If they give SA the seat, don't really see much coming out of it really. South Africa to stick to builing its coalition with Comesa and the BRIC countries and leave the UN issue alone.

TerryCarr: Vasco da Gama recorded a sighting of the Cape of Good Hope in 1497. In the late 16th century, Portuguese, French, Danish, Dutch and English ships regularly stopped over in Table Bay en route to the Indies. They traded tobacco, copper and iron with the Khoikhoi in exchange for fresh meat. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck and other employees of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Verenigde Oost-indische Compagnie, VOC) were sent to the Cape to establish a way-station for ships travelling to the Dutch East Indies, and the Fort de Goede Hoop (later replaced by the Castle of Good Hope). The settlement grew slowly during this period, as it was hard to find adequate labour. This labour shortage prompted the authorities to import slaves from Indonesia and Madagascar.
they were not dumped their

A lot of them happened to be Dutch and French hugenot refugees fleeing religious prosecution in europe who joined the ships that were trading spices from India.

PS It is a common heresay that the settlers came upon open uninhabited land when they discovered the cape. This is however a contested fact as the Khoi and even a few Nguni tribes aka Xhosa were already present or making their way simulteanously south from the inner lands running from Wars or looking for greener pasture.

cap28: AT LAST - THE VOICE OF REASON!!!

"the voice of reason" also believes black people were shipped into planet earth by space aliens as well. Hmmmm?

TerryCarr: not really
Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch and British rule. However, apartheid as an official policy was introduced following the general election of 1948. New legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups ("native", "white", "coloured", and "Asian", and residential areas were segregated, sometimes by means of forced removals. Non-white political representation was completely abolished in 1970, and starting in that year black people were deprived of their citizenship, legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands called bantustans, four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education, medical care, beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services inferior to those of white people.
but they did have Nazi sympathizers

Precisely my point. Why segregate the areas and control their resources. Why not declare an independent state from the rest of the so called racial categories and leave these primitive peoples to their fate.

Afrikkans nationalists were mainly born from the old Boer republics including the Predominant White German South West Africans that were Nazi sympathizers. The Cape dutch people were less aggressive to non white people as is evident in the overwhelming Mixed population of that area but ofcourse to stamp White minority rule, they had incorporate the White people in those areas.

TerryCarr: Britain took over the whole place

You need to complete that story. What happened after the british left?

Clue: There were a lot of Germans hanging around in South West Africa and eventually South Africa. Hmmm, wonder if Nazi ideology was not the corner stone of the national parties policies.

Horus: At the end of Apartheid, a deal was done between the White elite and the Africans who were to inherit positions of power. Mass engineered rhetoric was used to lullaby the people into an ideology of a "rainbow nation" where reconciliation without justice had virtue. The general politics focuses on reassuring the beneficiaries and perpetrators of racism that they have nothing to worry about, all is forgiven. South Africa is the Southern most point of Europe. South Africa is the kind of place where you can arrive at the airport and take the right turns in your BMW, listen to the radio, drive right to your hotel, go shopping, switch on the TV, go on a safari, go to the beach and barely see an African; if one was so inclined. Hidden in plain view is an injustice, which speaks volumes to the global condition of Africans and their inherent social and economical disadvantage even in their own lands: a condition unique to African people as a racial family.

I highly doubt the bolded part is possible. You must have pulled that excerpt from somewhere Horus. Is that an original thought?

RSA: Mr Mo somethings never changes,you don't give up.

Your claims that there's a hostility against Nigerians by South africans is dissapointing.

You're judgement is clouded by your hattred for my people and country.

You didn't start the thread,leave it to the two gentleman who are giving honest and unimotional advises
to people who are eager to come to South africa.
Just for the records,SA economy with all the world economic problems is doing better than Mbeki's time.Zuma might be contoversial in his personal life but he's a very good president.
Gbam and out!

If you think there's no hostilities against Nigerians in SA, try standing on the line with some of them at the airport through immigration when they are entering SA. Stop pulling a sheet over your face and call it as it is. Its like me denying there are Nigerians in SA that are up to no good.

I warned Papy2000 of what he should expect when he lands in the country. This is however not a general statement. All SA are not bad just like all Nigerians are not bad.

Shikena!

PS thought you had left nairaland for good. What keeps bringing you back.

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keep feeding yourself that bull crap about being the minority. Thats the stories they keep telling you to justify Apatheid. The afrikaners already had the orange free state and the transvaal and free independent boer republics. They could have annexed a whole lot more of the land by force and created a seperate entity in South Africa to accomodate their numbers and segregated themselves from the blacks but the lust for power and resources was too much to ignore so they created a Master/Slave class system to build their economoy on the backs of cheap labor and the technological know how which their people exclusively possessed.

86% of the land to 5 million Afrikaners vs 13 % to 49 million natives is by no means fear of invasion.

Apatheid broke down because mathematically speaking it would be an inevitabilty for the "whites' to continue to sustain power over the long term. Their numbers could not support it which is why an intelligent dude like Mandela realized this shift and negotiated political power for a stay of economic power and understand that over the long period, the mantle of economic power would gradually shift to the majority.

Stop fooling yourself

@ Pappy2000

CollinsFbi and Manager 007 have given you the best advice possible regarding SA. I have been to the country several times and have worked with the Nigerian embassy and some groups that assist refugees in that country. I have also seen the plight of many immigrants, been to Hillbrow and Sunnyside in pretoria, refugee camps on Capetown and many townships where foreigners reside so I too am talking from experience.

On my last visit to SA earlier this year, I met a chap on the plane with similar aspirations as yourself. He was going to SA to hustle it out. I advised him regarding the same things you are beind told here and gave him my number to call if he needed more advice.

Low and behold couple of months ago, he called me and was desperately in need of help as he was stranded in SA with no money, job or accomodation to live in. He began to cry on the phone and beckon me to assist him in any way possible. To cut a long story short. This particular individual is back home in Nigeria now.

No one is trying to stop you from going to Sa as it is obviously physically impossible to do so. However keep in mind that SA of the early 2000's is not the same today. There are stricter immigration laws, crack downs on immigrants and the economy is not doing as well as before duing the Mbeki era. Therefore there are more hostilities towards African immigrants especially ones from Nigeria.

The bottom line is you need CAPITAL to establish properly in SA. My advice would be to visit the country first. Take a look around and get a feel for the place over a period of 2 to 3 monthns on a tourist visa. If it is feasible then prepare to come back knowing fully well what you are getting into.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed!!

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consequence of Apatheid. Same historical examples in African American history. It can be reversed but will take serious work.

Ahh Cap28 still alive and kicking. Dude hears the word "white' and he's up in arms.

Preach on Brother man. Malema needs guys like you to expose the truth about the "whites' in south Africa.

"KISS THE BOER!!"

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!