Where will South Africa be in 10 years?

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Alf Garnett

There are a number of real problems facing SA not the least of which is HIV/AIDS and the ANC. The AIDS pandemic will be a massive drain on SA's resources if properly dealt with and given that Public Health Institutions are in a mess, less than 20% of SA's population have access to Medical Aid and the attitude of the ANC through Dr Beetroot you wonder if it will be dealt with. Assuming it is not then millions are set to die with an inevitable drain on the human resources of the Country. Life expectancy in SA has already dropped by a phenomenal number of years. The ANC are set to rule the Country for the foreseeable future with no other political party any where near the support they get. The current leadership are focused on getting rich quick and living in the past.Everything is/was the fault of Apartheid and the "struggle" stories will soon be the subject of a Hollywood drama. Accepting that the core belief of South African politics via the ANC is Communism then there is a likelihood of link ups with Russia,China,Iran etc but that will not be for the betterment of ordinary citizens. The ANC elite will continue to line the pockets of themselves and their family/friends.Over the next 10 years I feel that South Africa will get poorer and poorer until it settles just above the povery line. It will never again be an economic powerhouse with many 1st World standards. After 2010 when the population awakens to the fact that FIFA have gone and left just a few Stadiums then many more Whites will leave.Their children in particular will be the hardest hit in being discriminated against for Apartheid and they will probably lead the next procession to Australia,US,UK etc. It is a pretty dismal picture of a once vibrant economy but has Communism worked anywhere in the World?

FridayNighter

Hi Brad

Well, for me, S.A.'s gonna be in the same place it has for the past millions of years...the southern-most tip of Africa!! Hahahaha...I think it's gonna be better that it is now!! And hopefully the D.A. will be in power!!

PARADISE_WATERS

My guess is that it will still be at the southern tip of Africa, but you never know.

Queen B

Well this is what I feel that is very near to happening...it might come true , it might not. I feel that some sort of revolution is going to happen. The people on the ground is really sick and tired of the crime and the goverment not doing anything about it - man the cash-in-transit guards have threatened to strike in 7 days if their situation does not improve. Everywhere you here and read of ordainary people acting out agianst the criminals. I know this is not right but if you don't get justice or not even the acknowledgement for the crime done against you...anger is a strange thing and make you do stranger things even...there was a big article in "Rapport"last week about people that have the know how denying Mr Nqukula...A high court judge in sentincing a criminal that murdered a 4 year old girl strongly said he wished that the death penalty could be brought back..and caused a huge uproar because it's against the human rights of the criminal...I said to one of my co-workers today that only praying and wishing for things to be different won't help - it is really time fot the people of South Africa to stand up and cry out enough is enough...I am just afraid it won't happen and this beautiful country won't be the same anymore in 10 years time...and it breaks my heart...

Udit D

I A GOOD PLACE

jack daniels

In the next 10 yrs nothing much will change more Aids related deaths even the criminals can't escape that, crime will still be the same, but if you asked in 20 yrs time that's a different matter because the current generation of high school students will be the future leaders and are better educated and have grown up with out the shadow of apartheid hanging over them plus the current crop of miss fits will be long gone, yeh looking better.

SKY

Because aids been denied existing and not treated :Inhabited by mainly old folk and orphans

Chucky

Well we'll still be below Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia and Mozambique!

We aint going anywhere!!!!

Hello! Kitty

OMFG! Jy is klaar so bevooroordeeld in jou vraag, wat help dit tog 'n mens antwoord?! Lol, ek dink nie jy weet hoe dit voel om hier te sit en mense hou aan om jou country te insult nie. Dis regtig kak. Maar in elk geval, ek dink nie mens moet so negatief wees oor Suid-Afrika nie. Ek dink dit sal redelik goed gaan, veral met die Krieket wÃªreldbeker wat in 2010 of daar Ãªrens rond hier gaan wees. Ons gaan baie geld en stuff kry... en ons het 'n ekonomie wat besig is om te stabilize... AIDS wat so bietjie die bevolking uitdun sodat meer mense werk kan kry... misdaad wat agv AIDS ook afneem... sulke ****. Dit gaan cool wees man, ek gaan eendag in my kantoor in New York sit en op die rekenaar sien hoe goed dit met RSA gaan! Net jammer ek's wit... anders sou ek nog hier gebly het om te werk lol... maar nou ja, almal kry sy beurt... gun die swartes hul BEE en al daai crap, die Amerika sal al te graag 'n wit dude met 'n graad laat citizenship kry om daar te kan werk. So ja, so lank die lugdiens werkende bly vir ons om te escape, gaan dit redelik goed gaan met RSA in die volgende paar jare... so ja... watookal...

idontlike_idiots

it will be in the same place it is now if the yanks don't blow it up like they try to do to a lot of other countries

shoe s

i hope the whites will take control again,then it will be a better place

Marrs Attack

evita bezuidenhout will be president with casper de vries as deputy president.jokes,jokes,jokes.

good question.seriously i dont know but i would say that it would be a safer and better place to live.we south africans are generally optimistic people.only good things can happen if so many people of this beautiful country feel the need to better their situation.we must put the past behind us and build for the future.then the land of gold and diamonds will indeed be a rich and resourcefull land for all its inhabitants.

peace.

Anria A

I'm actually with Moya on this one (believe it or not, we usually disagree)
It will either turn into a complete basket case like Zim, in which case I'll have to get the family out of there. (I pray it wont, I love the country of my birth and blood)
Or most of the folks with Aids would have died (back in 2001 UCT's bio labs predicted that half of the 5million with HIV/Aids will be dead by 2010) and hopefully fewer will get infected. There will hopefully less unemployment, and less crime that goes hand in hand with it. And SA will be a proper 1st world country.
I pray that these are not just pipe dreams, and that it can be accomplished.

cheryl l

If it carries on the way it is now we will be a couple of million people short due to AID'S and TB. The roads will be hell to drive on, although the toll roads are still looking very good. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. Government services will just be hanging on if they last that long. I am an optimist. I still think this country will do a turn about and sort its problems out. I will surely be the last to leave this country.

rabbit

Well, the roads will all be gravel roads, schools will all be closed, hospitals will be broken down, crime will be worse than ever, need I say more

poepies

Hallo there,

I must confess, I'm scared of thinking what it would be like, we could end up like Zimbabwe. And worse, if Zuma turns out to be the next president, the white South African might as well take our stuff and emigrate!!!

What I don't understand, even the ANC people says that Zuma is corrupt ext, but still they vote for the ANC. They get promised houses, cars, money you name it, but still they don't get anything!!! I don't understand.

The white people isn't that great either, the black people stand together, in good and bad times, but white people always wants to do a thing alone. We always want to see who's the best, the strongest, and therefor the white people will not rule this country soon!!!

Aids is taking its toll, but remember, it is not just black people getting aids, keep that in mind!

Poverty could be a reason for South Africa to change, because of poverty today, the crime is so high. Illegal immigrants surely do not help in this matter.

If death sentence do not come back in the South African system, I do not see a GREAT AWESOME future for SA.

Otherwise, SA is a great country, and therefor I will not leave. Until this country isn't burned down, I will stay put!!!!!

moya

Well it can go one of two ways: Worse or better. Worse being absolute destruction of the moral fiber of our country (it already halfway destroyed). I doubt there would be many orphans as they too will die of AIDS (due to mother to child infections). But there will definitely be alot of old geezers running about. Technology will cease to improve since the current generation that is supposed to be carrying this country forward will have died. We will most certainly be a country full of idiots as almost half our teachers are infected. A small fraction of them are incapable of teaching anything as they are not really qualified. Many from our current government will have passed away because of complications caused by obesity (bunch of FAT cats).

Better: Three quarters of the criminals will be dead due to AIDS. Three quarters of our current government will dead too (don't get me wrong, some can and are trying to do their jobs its just that all that traveling and shopping and eating and partying keeps getting in the way of doing a good hard honest day's work).

So ja, its a very subjective question, and hopefully we will all survive to see what actually does happen in 10 years.

Man, I love a good ramble every day.

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in 10 years i see South Africa occuping the southern tip of Africa, havin long coastline stretching more than 2 500km from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast southwards around the tip of Africa and then north to the border with subtropical Mozambique on the Indian Ocean.
while its low-lying coastal zone narrow for much of that distance, soon giving way to a mountainous escarpment that separates it from the high inland plateau.

gem

good question brad!!! now i agree with everyone else... i think it will still be in the same location, unless of course tinkerbell relocates it to lalaland or something. which is where u live isnt it???

A. Blackman

More crimes, crimes and crimes. And STOP killing the Somali refugees, why are the South Africans jealous of their business success in South Africa and killing them.

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