Expat South Africans?

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My dear friend , Speaking as an expat I have contributed to South Africa when I lived there. I still can walk in my home town after all these years and I am welcomed as a son of the town.In the last twenty years I have contributed to South Africa from the outside. There are very proud expats that work for the betterment of South Africa from outside. We are the unofficial ambassadors that do more for South Africa than some of the embassies and the South African that are not cowards but live in South Africa.
That is the story about we.
Now the story about those who did not contribute to South Africa when they lived there and I am sure they are using their adopted country in the same way they used South Africa for their own selfish reasons.These people are entitled to trash South Africa because we do not live in their beloved apartheid country any more.They may have left Africa but Africa will not leave them that is why they join this program to bash South Africa.Deep down inside them the memories of South Africa can't be erased.To all the South African please be kind to those expats who trash South Africa.If we forget our UBUNTU humanity in the Zulu language then we will become like them.

Diezel

(1) Stupid
(2) Racist
(3) Pathetic
(4) Ignorant
(5) Confused
Which one of the above best describes you?

Vango

Ayiza, if you read properly you will see that (almost) all of us love our country.
There's a HUGE difference between thrashing our country and trashing the ANC government who is destroying it for everybody. If anybody is selling the country out, it's the ANC who clearly lost the plot.
Where I live now will never be my home. I am African, just like you.
Accept that white South Africans are also South Africans and stop hammering this old racist drum that stinks of ethnic cleansing.
Get on with it, man. You're really getting boring and are acting immature with this nonsense.

If you want, you and I can meet man-to-man when I'm in SA again and we'll see who's the coward...

I should be in Cape Town somewhere in July.

HerbalMix

What do you mean by expats? I am a black South African who grew up in Soweto but now residing in the US. I left because i was offered a lucrative position here(but also beacuse i wanted to have a different experience). I have been here for three years now and i think i am making more progress careerwise than i would have in SA. Am i an expat? I still hold my allegiance to my country.

There are obviously some people who are bitter that things have changed in SA and will say anything to deride the country. But i think overall people are voicing genuine concerns that should not just be rubbished. The government has to be held accountable. After all we voted for them(at least i did).Sometimes the truth is difficult to swallow but we have to try and be objective and not be swayed by emotions. A lot of things have deteriorated in SA(and a lot of things have improved, but thats not enough). A lot of it has to do with incompetent people in high positions. That is a fact. we should not be in denial about issues here, like our President is. Dont be defensive when there is nothing to defend.

South africa has a lot of potential. We just need to do things and do them right. People with an inferior complex are upset by little things and they tend to be defensive also.I am black and i have no complexes about that. But i will not blindly follow and be aggreable to things that i know are wrong.A corrupt person is corrupt and poor leadership is poor leadeship,period...

So i think you should not generalise like that and dont try to shut people up, otherwise they will explode.Just like what happened with apartheid.Anyway I normally avoid emotive debates but i just thought i should jump in and share my views with you and others on this forum.

Peace my brother!

Alf Garnett 8

You have it all wrong, Buddy. All the expats are doing is highlighting how the ANC and the thugs who roam your streets are trashing the Country. The beauty that Van Riebeek saw 400 years ago is still there but it is now unsafe to live in or visit. It wasnt like that before Communism and the Country was sold out by the CIA and MI6 who gave De Klerk no choice. Maybe you should get your mind beyond the ANC propaganda and do some real research on events leading up to Communism. There were no ANC heroes ( they were too scared)- just Communist thugs waiting to plunder the Country that was built on White innovativeness and know how.
Soon your children will be on my TV screen with flies crawling out their noses and Bono or Geldoff making an impassioned plea for donations.

The Dude

I'm with Vango on this one. I have never heard an expat trashing this beautiful country of ours. You're just trying to cause an uproar and it aint working. Jy moet gaan slaap!!!!

Brad Morris 8

You're another one that's attention starved.

mr.mars-"H"-mallow

You behind your keyboard is the coward mate. What took 300+ years to build up is going down the tube within what, 12, 13 years?

You are probably one of those that didn't get too much attention when you were younger? You are 14 now? Or was it 15?

Just wondering......

*** The H is enjoying building up another place without individuals like this .... yawn ...***

J'adore*

ayiza please not you again.

nobody trashs south africa
infact we say good things about it

what do u mean
concerntrate and leave "us" alone?
im south african where do you want me to go
i can't help but live in a diffrent country
you want me to just tell my parents go off without me
coz i don't want to leave s.a.
you would know how it feels like
if you were an expat yourself
we obviously fit in our homes and the people around us
coz thats the way to live

we sold out the country?
what the ****?

ayiza please think before you post a question thanks =]
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ayiza how are we trashing our country?
we are not trashing it at all you just don't understand
talk is very cheap got any evidence?
how are we trashing it that when we in another country
all we do is want to go home we obviously {{love it}}
do you even know the meaning of coward to be calling us one
maybe you should reconsider that and see who the real coward is.
people cant help being totally amazing at their jobs and being promoted.

sins

Yaaawn.....

There he goes again.

General Proud

my 9 year old niece has the perfect saying for just such occasions.

BLAH BLAH FISHPASTE!

there's another interesting afrikaans saying:

"jy's moeg. gaan slaap."

Anria A

Thanks Diezel, coming from the horses mouth, not just the (apparent "racist") white folks thinks this is becoming a bit far fetched.

andy

ayiza, i understand where you are coming form....some south africans that have left the motherland have change their lives to suit European, American, Canadian culture(if they have any!!)

i am a south african, but unfortunately i had to move with my parents to America(i had no choice).

BUT WE ARE STILL AS SOUTH AFRICAN AS WE CAN BE!!!

-One Love-

you didn't get it the first time round, did you? in any case, don't let it bother you...seriously.

lindaronelmarx

Well Ayiza, I am not saying another word to you after this!

There is no person as blind as the one that does not want to see or as deaf as he who does not want to hear .....

You should no it by now.

gunner2za

hahahahahaha.....................i am starting to like alfie.............at last he is making intelligent remarks....................ayziya.......... up, pick up your spade and start working....................when you are finished wash my car..................it is obvious that you are intellectually challenged and cant get a proper job.................that is why you are on the pity cart....................sorry bud ....................i dont go to pity parties

Great Blistering Barnacles

I think the real problem is that you have stopped taking your medication or you need a stronger dosage.

juicyah

barking dogs seldom bite do it and then talk

turniton5

If I see something that looks like a dog turd lying on the ground and it smells like a turd then thatÂ´s enough for me to realise that itÂ´s a turd.

You on the other hand will pick it up, squash it in your hand, lift it till it touches your nose, smell it, bite into it, chew on it and then exclaim - Oh cr@p! ItÂ´s sh!t.

This is the difference between you and most of the people on this forum - we recognise sh!t when we see it, in all itÂ´s forms!

Rene B

Those people who opted to leave your country have their reasons which should be respected. I am not South african and I've been to your country couple of weeks back-I found your country nice.

sebe

you obviously don't read our answers properly....most of us love SA despite everything that's going on and has happened...and yes I get frustrated sometimes with the negativity, but boet..the majority of the people on Answers love SA......I agree with Vango....And i'm in SA at the end of Nov...wanna go a coupla rounds with me as well?????

wharlrus

ayisa,it gives me pleasure because everytime i read this stuff,i know why the wise r expats.does that answer satisfy my poor little one?
better to be a living coward than a deranged on such as u.

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