Do you believe the good in South Africa still outweighs the bad?

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Alf Garnett 8

Simply put there are those with their Heads firmly stuck up their anus and those who prefer realism. Nothing can offset the s hit that South Africans endure at the hands of the Marxist ANC who sponsor all the evils that come your way.They lie through their teeth about everything from Crime to AIDS to the state of your Economy and when they run out of lies they blame it on "the legacy of apartheid." These are not positive factors you mention since they are available in most other Countries and even better. Europe has scenery and weather more than equivalent to SA and a far wider choice of Sport played at a much higher level than in SA. Your history books are being re-written by the ANC so in time your culture will date back 400 years and a good weekend will be slaughtering a pig and hanging it in a tree. The only certainty about SA is that it is going down the tubes and the only uncertainty is how long will it take.

jovvijo

I like to stay positive.
But it is so hard sometimes!
You can't ignore the bad and how much it seems to be creeping more and more steadily into the heart of everything South African.
I don't know anyone who hasn't been badly affected in some way or another by crime and terror in this country.

Sometimes I feel all the positive vibes are slowly being squished out of everything and one!

jo v

Yes!Im with Heavy D on this one.I choose to live in small coastal town,with less money but with no worries and fears.

cakes4africa

Hope is free.

heavy D

Yes , I do ! Maybe it's because my lifestyle is very different than yours . Unfortunately I had to make huge changes to safeguard my family and myself against crime which is impossible to do but you can make it safer if you use your imagination. In spite of this I remain positive .This is the only country that I know were you can start from scratch and make yourself a millionaire in one year ! I have done it three times already ! I honestly believe that I won't be able to do it anywhere else. I have structured my way of living around the little positive things we have left in this country. I wake up on my farm ,drink coffee in my lapa ,enjoy the scenery of wildlife on my front lawn,get myself ready for work .During the day I work my *** off and return to my sanctuary at night. Weekends I normally have a lot of friends visiting me from the concrete jungle and that's were the positive things you mentioned come to play !

Like the other answerer said; it would be better to ask that to those who felt the brunt of crime before 1994 when all police force was used to protect one section of the community. Poor governance was order of the day - otherwise there wouldn't have been Oupa Qozo, Lukas Mangope, Mphephu and other despots. And because I am from those who know those hardships, YES, I am positive that despite all the current real and imagined problems, the good outweighs the bad!

HerbalMix

"...Now the trumpet summons us againā€”not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we areā€”but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation"ā€”a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself...

...And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for youā€”ask what you can do for your country.

Finally...With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own..."

Darth Vader

I must be one of those for whom the bad outweighed the good, because I have left. I cannot say that the country or it's people are bad, but the policies of the government just make it impossible for me to be happy there at present.

WRRRRRR

Yes. Good is always heavier than bad. Every chance you get, eliminate the negativity. Hence, the standing offer for saboteurs, whiners and backstabbers to emigrate post haste...

Consider, if the kitchen is too hot, dirty and corrupt...go to the sitting room.

SAgirl

For me the thing that is most frustrating is that south africa is moving backwards rather than forwards and the only people who see this is those you is trying to make a living who works and suffers. The government is either noticing it and turning a blind eye or not they are not seeing it at all. On an international level they eat up the crap the government is giving them they dont see for what things realy are

General Proud

deep down, i wish that it were that way.

but in my life, it's not.

thatniceguy

I was thinking that this morning, the problem is not the fact that it is bad but the fact that its getting worse. Slowly but surely. I just wonder where we will be in 10 years from now.

MB1810

It's like the first answerer said isn't it. Crime and poor Governance would be bearable if the situation was getting better. There comes a time when you lose your excitement over the rugby game because you're constantly scared that when the game is done your car will be gone as well. Scenic beauty can only keep the moral up for so long.

Lady G

I agree with Thatniceguy's statement. For me some days are worse than others, when you hear of the 86 year-old lady who was raped in her home IN THE TOWN WHERE YOU LIVE... That really doesn't make my day.
Then you go to work and meet people (black) who will honestly help you if some student guys harass you (which happens a lot, they are often drunk). That makes me see the good again. But it still depends on the day, because then you get the day again where one of the kitchen staff threatens the manager with a knife...

sweet - angel

one word, NO!

Marrs Attack

tell me when in south africas past did the majority of the population enjoy a crime free existence, good governance and better standards of living?

your question is better directed at the previously advantaged sector of the south african population.

im not an ANC supporter and never will be.

Brad Morris 9

Hell no. And living in a denialist fantasy pretending it is won't make it so.
Look at the stats - a woman is raped every two and a half minutes in the ANC's rainbow nation, more people are killed in South Africa daily than are killed in Iraq, children are gang-raped, AIDS is wiping out the population (good news), the political structure is corrupt from the top down and run by Marxists and terrorists that count despotic regimes like Cuba and Zimbabwe as allies.
All the scenic beauty and great weather in the world won't change that.

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