Now, years later, i love SA. It consider it my home. The worst thing is that my adolescent prediction are becoming true, and i do not feel vindicated, just sad…

I live in UK now… but would want nothing to go back to SA, but i cannot see it… no matter how i cut it in my head, i do not see SA as bouyant country… its not about the usual crime, BEE and so on… i just know from living in Poland what ineffiecive government looks like, and i know where it leads… i cannot help but see it in SA more and more…my paradise is lost…

FIY Khoza… SA government is running a budget surplus… the resources are not scarce… the people who allocate them are simply inept in puting them to correct use

A fantastic job opportunity would be welcomed by anyone regardless of race or nationality. So why all the fuss?

I have been living in the Middle East for 2yrs now and yes it does offer the “privilege” of a life lived without paranoia. I have not emigrated, just took up a job offer I couldn’t refuse.

Relocating is a complex and emotionally taxing effort. To be able to leave the comfort zone of friends, family and a system (good/bad) that you have grown up with takes a great deal of courage no matter who you are or what your background is.

I am neither black nor white, just another colour in between, I don’t understand the need to bash South Africa nor the people who choose to leave it. Life is about new experiences, how you choose to do this should be your own indaba.

American Indians are natives of North America (but that doesn’t make George W. Bush less American), just as Ngunis and Khoi are natives of Africa, but it doesnt make whites less “South African”.

Well, I would. And I have.

This is just the issue, so many white south
africans don’t like to hear others’ truth or put themselves in others’ shoes, but prefer to stick stubbornly (and sometimes arrogantly) to their version of the story. As they have done throughout the world and the continent’s history they impose their opinions as ‘whats correct and what’s best.’

The lack of regard or consideration for the perceptions, ideas and knowledge of millions of people is what got us into the quagmire we find ourselves in now. Ridiculing opposing thoughts and opinions, and dismissing then as having no relevance or worth, is just not strong enough an argument.

Khoza’s view is just that, his view, and I’ll stick my neck out here by saying that his words probably hold the sentiments of many thousands of South Africans.

You raise some valid issues

Two points:

1/ The ANC now have within their ranks a number of old Nats including good old Kortbroek
2/ The old Nats just happen to be the party that inflicted apartheid on South Africa

Does it strike you as strange that so many people continue to agonise about apartheid when its authors are now part of the ANC.

Are you prepared to consider the possibilty that there is a measure of inconsistency buried in there somewhere.

To my mind the biggest political disgrace this country has seen since 1994 was the integration of the old Nats into other political groupings (wait for it…….including the DA)

Get over it. And tell that to the self-pitying Khoza too. Don’t encourage him.

I can agree with almost everything that you say in your second post.

I’m just not sure about how that message should be delivered.

I do believe, though, that the majority of whiteys in SA need to come to a realisation as you mention above.

Just wonder how to get their consciences pricked without incurring their wrath, or raising their stubborn denial, or without precipitating aggressive confrontation.

Do you blog, Khoza? I’d be interested to hear more of your thoughts…