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corporal:What a rubbish comment from an ignorant fool. Just because you have pale skin and by virtue of that you enjoy inherited material benefits you now live your life feeling special. You must be one of the pretenders. |
^^^^^^^^^ You should've just opened a new thread to express your thoughts there because what you posted has nothing to do with whether or not you think Mandela was a terrorist or maybe it was some abstract reasoning that I failed to understand. I suggest you open a new thread and title it I Am A White Person, Ask Me Anything. A lot of people will respond to such a thread and you will also get a lot racists people who hate whites with passion like Cap28 but how you deal with them is up to you. Your last paragraph is typical of the average white South African who believes that the government is against him, I meet guys like you on a daily basis and I always spend time to explain how BEE and Employment Equity has actually benefited whites more than blacks. The problem is that many white South Africans are now enjoying to feel sorry for themselves and moan about how the whole system is against them while they continue to live comfortable lives. |
morpheus24:Yes, I'm signing off |
cap28:How many times must I tell you that nobody owned land further than their eyesight in SA 350 years ago? Today with 50 million people most of South Africa's land continues to be empty state owned land, now just imagine 350 years ago with just a handful of humans how ownership would've been like. This argument that whites stole our land is complete rubbish, blacks are just using a western concept of formal ownership whereby you draw an imaginary line on a map and then claim that you own whatever is on your side of the imaginary line. Whites have colonised us so deeply that we are using their ambiguous concepts to accuse them of stealing something which didn't belong to us. I don't know of any black South African who will be able to point out the land that was "stolen" all they can do is to refer to South Africa as a whole - a country that was demarcated by white mans imaginary lines. Batswana people occupy the land in Botswana and the North-West province of South Africa bordering Botswana. These are people who speak the same language and share the exact culture, I know that because I am a Motswana myself, but the problem is that white mans imaginary line divided these people into citizens of Botswana and citizens of South Africa. Isn't that a joke? cap28:Yes lets blame whites for our lack of progress. White man spared Ethiopia and they let them be, look at Ethiopia now, who do you think they should blame? The Italians? I would be appalled if whites prevented African Americans from building their own schools and universities to educate their own people. That didn't happen in SA, blacks had Fort Hare university which was more interested in producing historians and politicians and not interested in producing engineers and scientists. SA Indians had the university of Durban-Westville and they focused on producing scientists and engineers that's why today South Africans Indians are better off than blacks even though they also experienced Apartheid. cap28:It hurts you that we are progressing while you remain stagnant unable to use your own black initiative, that's because your mind is still owned by whites cap28:Whites set up the economy in your country so you shouldn't blame them if they seek to destroy what they built. It goes back to "ownership", you are using white mans concept to claim ownership of something that is not yours. cap28:No I was too preoccupied with helping to develop my country. I don't care much what white people are doing, I'm more interested in focusing on what my people are doing to advance our country. cap28:Shame, now whites are also in control of your emotions |
@cap28 reading blogs by the white chicken run will not help coz those fools perpetually wish for the collapse of South Africa so their views will forever be biased. The problem with you is that you want black South Africans to hate whites like you do because they still exert great influence in our country. The truth will remain that whites made South Africa a successful country using their knowledge and skills to manipulate land and resources for wealth creation, most of that wealth has and still belongs to them but there have been trickle down wealth benefits for blacks. Blacks got this country running at full speed on the tracks, we took over the country and whites remained behind to insure that the country doesn't go off tracks. No matter who owns what, where and how wont change the fact that white mans development of South Africa now allows black South Africans to live better lives and have better opportunities than most Africans that's why I don't think whites owe us anything |
cap28:who owned the land prior to the arrival of the europeans? No one Why did the europeans engage in numerous wars with your people over land? To steal some land which has now been given back. why were your people herded onto reservations? It's actually the Boers who were put in concentration camps by the British You say that today the govt and municipalities own this vacant land - who preceded this current govt that you have ? wasnt it your former apartheid govt? how did they gain ownership of this land? Yes the white government owned and controlled that land but now that it's in black hands we shouldn't be complaining "Eighty three million hectares of land in South Africa is privately-owned and the State owns the remainder of the roughly 123 million hectares of land, said the Director General of the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform, Mr Shabane." http://www.parliament.gov.za/live/content.php?Item_ID=1692 cap28:right, but in order to create wealth you have to have access to the means to create it don't you? Yes but those means are intangible means such as knowledge and skills. Black South Africans just like other Africans have lived on top of valuable natural resources for centuries and even millenia but even till today they don't know how to extract that resources. It took white mans knowledge to discover gold and platinum in SA just like it took white mans knowledge to discover oil in Nigeria or do you create wealth out of thin air? If you have knowledge and skills you can go anywhere in the world and succeed, that's what Jews(25% Nobel laureates) do.They are clever people who push boundaries of academia. can you create wealth if you do not own any land, technology or natural resources? You can have plenty of land and resources but if you don't have knowledge of how to use that land and resources then it's pointless. Blacks have always had land and resources but they have failed to create wealth. It's not white mans fault that he has knowledge and skills while you don't. lets use your country as an example - who owns the majority of the land in your country? The government of South Africa owns the majority of the surface land of SA. who owns the mining corporations? Whites own the mines who owns the technology which has enabled the creation of the goods and services? Whites own those technologies and since those technologies make life easier for black South Africans compared to other Africans they therefore should not be complaining and wanting payback but rather focus on developing they own technologies while enjoying the benefits of existing technology cap28:It is those white institutions that are enabling black South Africans to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to create success for themselves, that's why I don't like ungrateful South Africans who complain and want pay back while they use whites mans institutions to upgrade themselves - a benefit which was not afforded to other who were colonized. BTW, blacks who graduate from these white institutions end up with enough skills to be the boss of many whites. cap28:Me and most other black South Africans will continue to progress while you remain a bitter person who is only interested in pointing out past injustices and demands payback because he is clueless about how to create his own success. It's not white mans fault that blacks who are alive today are generally dumb and know nothing worthwhile, the good thing is that South Africa has long identified education as the main instrument to correct past and current imbalances. cap28:You need to come live in South Africa, your misconceptions will evaporate quickly. If I were to list all that government has done and is doing for black South Africans you would be shocked and you would also wonder why ungrateful brats want more. Which country in this world can boast of having so far built over 3 million house for its poor citizens? cap28:"the white south africans STILL CONTROL YOUR ECONOMY - YOUR BLACK ELITE TAKE ORDERS FROM THE WHITES - NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND" please start telling me something I don't know cap28:At least blacks are using their own initiative to create progress for themselves while you sit back and state that white man is still dominating which is true but the emphasis is on sit back cap28:You are a delusional black person who mind is held indirectly hostage by whites. You care too much about what white people have done, are doing and will do but you have no interest in your own development . You will remain stagnant while white man continues to achieve. I feel sorry for you because a particular race has shifted your focus so that you become obsessed with them which limits you in all other fronts. |
@Dondav I don't know why you refuse to listen, you just want to cause heartache for yourself. First of all home affairs only grants work permits to people who already have job offers and the company that offers you a job must first prove that it couldn't find a South African who could do the job. Secondly, you will never be able to work 'honestly' to pay for your studies in SA. And thirdly, I've already told you that SA has 25% unemployment so what makes you think that you will arrive in SA and be preferred for a entry level job over the many millions of unemployed South Africans? Anyway, good-luck |
cap28:Even today with a population of 50 million(40 million blacks) most of South Africa's land lays unoccupied and the majority of that vacant land is owned by the government and municipalities. South Africans are mostly centred in Cape Town, Gauteng and KZN places which were developed by whites. I doubt that there were even 3 million blacks in this country when whites arrived 300 years ago and supposedly stole the land. cap28:Wealth is created when a person does something which another person is willing to buy. The other person can only buy if he himself has made something which another person is willing to buy. That's the barter system which was long formalised by whites into money, finances and economy. A per capita GDP of $1 000 means that the average single person in a particular country is able to work or produce things by himself which are universally considered to be valued at $1 000. A per capita GDP of $55 000 means that the average single person in a particular country is able to work or produce things by himself which are universally considered to be valued at $55 000. That's why GDP per capita is a important statistic because it shows how productive the average single person in that country is. It's not about who owns or controls what, it's about what an individual can do which creates value cap28:Those who have scientific knowledge will always be superior. Indians and Chinese are now becoming very scientific and their expanding presence in Africa is beginning to create the same racial tension as it has always been with whites. It's not about whites but more about who "knows". If you went to school and got taught what white people know so that you become scientifically on par with them then you wouldn't be so against them. You just pushing an inferiority complex where you unknowingly realise that white people "know" how to dominate while you remain clueless. So you blame them for being better than you and you accuse them of upgrading themselves using you and your people and at your expense and stealing your old technologies which you yourself don't know how to replicate in modern times. cap28:This type of moaning is also done by a few uneducated black South Africans who have a warped sense of entitlement. You need to go to school and get proper knowledge so that latter on in your work life you can receive regular calls and emails from white people who ask you how something is done or what procedures to follow, that's when you will stop hating them. cap28:Black South Africans live better lives compared to other Africans even though they are equally as poor. The development done by whites, even though it is mostly enjoyed by them, has allowed most blacks to not worry about lights going off, water quality and sanitation issues, mobility on roads rails or air, quality education and all other trickle down benefits which they don't deserve but we claim entitlement since this development is done on "our" land cap28:Another comment that lacks thought. Since whites "ra.pe, pillage and plunder" not only South Africa but the entire continent including Nigeria it's good that our Afrikaans whites stayed behind to be accountable to those blacks who still have chips on their shoulders like JuJu unlike other whites who "ra.pe, pillage and plunder" your countries and then took a hike after being satisfied cap28:You are showing your madness again. Your fist point is true though, South Africa was developed for the settlement of whites not blacks but now that blacks are enjoying this development they shouldn't be complaining but rather work towards extending the development. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE ARE DOING. We don't want whites to give us what they have, we want to build our own. In the past blacks were forced to go shop at white malls in the white suburbs but today blacks have EXPANDED the development by sticking up lots of malls in just one township called Soweto Your HIV/Aids argument is just plain ridiculous. There are more people living with HIV/Aids in Nigeria than SA in real numbers, yes the Nigerian percentage is small because of the big population but the real number is higher than SA so does that mean whites also want to exterminate Nigerians? cap28:You must just accept that people always want to associate themselves with success. As much as America is divided, all of them including African Americans are proud to hold a US passport even Nigerians who land US passport have a tendency of feeling special and bragging about it because they are citizens of a successful nation. If South Africa was not achieving globally recognized success(which is intangible success) then we would be a hopelessly divided nation as I have said. And black South Africans are just like African Americans where we brag about past successes that we had nothing to do with and provided little or no contribution but it is these past successes that are making it easier for us to create successes in the present time. The majority of African Americans have a cordial working relationship with whites and that's how it is in SA. We are not best friends but we've learned to get along when working towards set goals |
zolzlolz:You should |
zolzlolz:It's oppressed people like you who want to be listen to by whites and when that doesn't happen you then throw tantrums on forums without fighting issues the way real South Africans do it: face-to-face. Anyway, why do you want white people to listen to you? Do you value them that much? You need to grow up and replace your slave mentality with something more of a progressive consciousness. Or move to Joburg where people are more liberated and actually get along. You should never use Cape Town as a barometer for SA, that city is beautiful but cliquey and mega racist(although concealed) arguably the most divided place in South Africa. I spent 2 years at UCT so I know how Cape Town is like, terrible place for a black person even whites who move there find it difficult to deal with the snobs Also, I don't have to discuss race relations with South African whites because I have no issues with them, they are just people like me and you and I realised that a long time ago. |
zolzlolz:Haha, you just lost credibility. You allow yourself to be censored in a free country. I would have more respect for you if you openly told white people what you think of them like members of the ANCYL now you blame white people for not allowing you to say what you think. Ag shame, you still oppressed zolzlolz:I don't want to give you a history lesson because it will mainly be snippets that will led you to draw incorrect conclusions. What you must research for yourselves is how black chiefs bartered away land the same way they agreed to the bantustans you must also research how most of what is now South African land was uninhabited so it's foolish for blacks to claim that land in many parts of South Africa belongs to them when no black man, except a few Khoisan, has ever set foot(even till today). The Native Land Act didn't take away land it just formalised segregation and it paved the way for the establishment of what later became bantustans demarcated according to where the majority of black people lived. From that Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda, Ciskei became independent black states. The Apartheid government gave away huge chunks of South Africa under it's policy of separate development. I can go on but I don't want to confuse you. The problem with many people is that they don't know the full history of South Africa which leads them to draw laughable conclusions |
zolzlolz:OK, of all the white people that you know do you tell them about all that you've been ranting about or are those views that you only reserve to be expressed anonymously on internet forums? Or are you buddy buddy with them in real life and only the radical zolzlolz is unleashed in cyber life? |
@zolzlolz how many white people do you know? |
cap28:You don't know enough about South Africa's history if you think that land and labour were stolen or maybe I should say you know half the history and you are using that half knowledge to formulate a full opinion. cap28:The good thing is that black people are not interested in competing with white people but are more focused in creating their own success through whatever legal means they choose. cap28:It has not, is not and probably will not be about racial competition since those major corporations already have significant black shareholdership thanks to BEE cap28:This is juvenile thinking. Whites owe us nothing, South Africa is better off because of think-work done by white people, it is their inventiveness that has put South Africa at a higher level compared to other African countries. Black South Africans like me are lucky because the end of Apartheid allowed us to move into and then expand the formal systems that were long established by the whites. We are not like other African countries that had to start-up agencies from scratch, we probably would have failed. We just got the engine in top shape and running, black man just took the drivers seat and white man sat in the passenger seat and taught black man how to run a government and all other institutions. It has not been perfect but we are managing. I'm one of many black South Africans who don't give a damn what white South Africans do or did or all that jazz, I'm more interested in creating my own success. The thing that I also do, which some don't like, is to acknowledge white mans contribution to South Africa. I grew up in Tembisa township in a matchbox house built by the white government, all of old Soweto, Alex, Katlehong, Vosloorus and others were built by the white government. Yes, blacks like to own these townships and refer fondly to them as if they built them but it's the whites who built most townships in Jozi. Black parents don't have to send their kids abroad because whites built world-class universities in our backyard. Basically if whites owe us anything then they have repaid us by grudgingly allowing us to use first-rate facilities which are now making it easier for us to make something of ourselves cap28:This again shows your simpleton thinking. People want to associate themselves with success, America is seen to be a very successful country that's why so many Americans are proud to be American it has nothing to do with language or culture or any other nonsensical point. South Africans are proud to be South African because this country has achieved many successes recognized to most people around the world including yourselves even though you might not admit. A week or two ago UN delegates were showering SA with praise for successfully hosting the UN climate change talks COP 17 in Durban. It is this sort of feedback that creates a warm fuzzy feeling among South Africans and ultimately a sense of oneness that we are a nation of doers and achievers and not a nation of just black, white, coloured and indian. Race and racial tension exists but it doesn't define us. |
Vicjustice:How else can you determine a crime if it is not reported? What you then suggesting is that South Africans should report 3 823 655 more crimes to just be on par with the UK. You made a foolish statement that SA beats the UK in crime, I then provided you with simple stats and now you trying to defend your unresearched blunder by postulating. The truth is that South Africa has one of the highest murder per capita rates(total murders divide by total population) in the world and it is this unfortunate little statistic that western and also South African media use to paint SA as the worst crime capital. Please read through the article provided to see that the UK is not so rosy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/14/crime-statistics-england-wales |
Dondav:SA has 25% unemployment so there are millions of South Africans who want to work but can't find a job |
Dondav:I don't know about the UK but in South Africa unskilled and semi-skilled jobs are hard to get because there is a over supply of labour hence the high unemployment. So the chances of you getting a general job in SA will be near impossible unless you know people who know people. There are plenty of skilled jobs though so if you are a engineer, accountant, software developer and so on it shouldn't be that difficult to find work. SA is importing skilled labour from all over the world - Cuban doctors, Zimbabwean teachers, UK/German engineers, Indian IT specialists and so on |
Vicjustice:http://www.mapsofworld.com/world-top-ten/countries-with-highest-reported-crime-rates.html |
cap28:Firstly, it doesn't matter how you rationalize it to yourself, the truth will remain the truth. Secondly, white South Africans didn't steal wealth as you claim, they created it themselves. It is only fair if they are allowed to keep the wealth which they created and leave black South Africans to create their own wealth alongside them. That's what BEE is all about, white businesses are not forced to comply with that policy. It's only if they want to do business with the now black led government that they must comply. Lastly, nationhood in South Africa exists mainly thanks to international events that we have successfully hosted since 1994. These events bring people together to work towards a single goal and when that goal is achieved it creates comradeship, pride and a sense of oneness within many. Had South Africa not hosted any international event since 1994 I'm sure we would be a hopelessly divided nation filled with people who would only identify success within ethnic and geographical boundaries because of the lack of national success. |
kgr28:Soon you will calm down and accept that not everyone loves South Africa. Initially I used to get very irritated by the usually incorrect as well as disparaging comments against South Africa but now I just laugh. I read all the comments in this thread and all I did was laugh, I suggest you learn to do the same |
[quote author=E-Engineer link=topic=227264.msg9790383#msg9790383 date=1324218467]@sa lassie, can u confidently tell me that the relationship btw blacks and whites in sa is healthy when a white woman wont let her child go near a black man, u folks are still bloody racists, even if u are different, uclearly dont speak for every afrikaaner[boer] out there, to your white brothers u r just plain weird[/quote]You're funny dude. I guess it's misconceptions such as what you expressed that make people who "know" laugh at you. It's true that there are many white racists just like they are now many black racists(I personally know a few) but what you must understand is that black and white and coloured and indian South Africans have developed a cordial working relationship. Generally black, white, coloured and indian people stick to themselves in terms of close friendships, love and those other things but we all meet at work and work forces us to get along. My facebook friends are majority black people but the lot who are white are mainly guys who I work with and a few who I went to varsity with. Same applies to many South Africans - check their facebook friends |
Oba234: Awahid:Stellenbosch is a white Afrikaans town that could pass as a random mountainous area in Germany or Netherlands Cape Town and all those other places are also largely populated by white people. What then would be the point of coming to South Africa to live among the whites? Might as well go to Europe. I suggest Joburg, it's the most diverse city in SA and you will be less likely to be homesick since you will meet many of your Nigerian brothers and sisters. It's unlikely that you will find yourself in informal squatter camp areas like Diepsloot which means that you will escape most of the Johannesburg crime. Most of Joburg's crime just like the rest of SA is social crime as explained in the crime stats report, that's whereby people who now each other are at a house party they have a argument and then kill each other so it's not like you walk in the street and some random criminal shoots you |
Dondav:That's what our traffic cops do from time to time but I don't think we have area boys |
Yes they must hang her. It will be a deterrent for other foolish people |
Decypha:I don't see anything wrong with competition. Besides I've come to realise that people(all people) are pretenders and it's internet portals like forums that allow people to expose their true but radical selves. So hate on a forum does not translate to hate on the ground in everyday life. If you read comments on various forums and news sites in SA(especially news24) you would think that black people and white people hate each other coz every little thing gets turned into "black this", "white this". But the truth is that black people and white people generally get along well. I consider that to be just competition, black people now consider themselves equal to and some superior to whites and now they challenge them anonymously on forums and message boards and it becomes a harmless racial fight. I remember two or three months ago when Julius Malema attended his friends wedding in Mauritius. Juju's friend became a hot topic, black people were bragging that a black man is blowing millions on a wedding while white people were accusing him of benefiting from government contracts and it became one of those never-ending racial debates. But that does not mean that we're a divided country |
Decypha:Why should people not make an effort to defend themselves and their country? Anyway, I think that trying to explain the xenophobic violence and killings is a waste of time because people have long made up their minds based on what they saw on the media and what they heard from third parties. What they saw and heard is largely true but what they didn't see and didn't hear is also true. It's then up to the person to weigh up the two and reach whatever conclusion that suits them. This is the same as how a few Nigerians commit different kinds of crimes in many countries all over the world and this leads to many people taking on a negative view of Nigeria and also having general animosity towards all Nigerians. Legit and upstanding Nigerians will make serious effort to prove that these are just a few unscrupulous rejects who form a minority of their society but that will seldom change a deeply held opinion of somebody who always sees stories of Nigerians being arrested for various crimes or Nigerians living good lives but appear not to be "working". In his mind all Nigerians are synonymous with what he sees and hears of them but most times what he sees is just half the picture. Even though I think it's a waste of time to educate someone who already has strong believes contrary to your education it might help to create better understanding for those who are a little more open-minded |
^^^^ lol |
It's modelled after Brazil's capital Brasília |
It's modelled after Brazil's capital Brasília |
Lets not crucify the Chinese, they are just following their own laws. The good thing to note is that they did offer her a life sentence if she admitted guilt after the SA government made attempts to intervene but she refused to take the deal and now shes dead. I remember many years ago a South African citizen was sentence to death in Botswana, our government tried to intervene and used all sorts of tricks but the Botswana government just gave SA the middle finger and hanged the guy. That's what all countries should do - follow your own laws and give the middle finger to those who criticize you |
^^^^^ From your numbers it means that "non-whites" make up 15% of the UK population and whites make up the balance of 85%. With that it means that whites should theoretically be responsible for 85% of crimes since they make up 85% of the population and "non-whites" should account for 15% of the crimes. So if it's true as you stated that "80% of sex offenders in uk are white english and eastern european" then it means that the remaining 20% is committed by "non-whites" Conclusion: 15% of the "non-white" UK population commits 20% of sex offences which makes them disproportionately higher than their white counterparts |
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