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Old 10-14-2007, 11:50 AM
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Personally, I would be happy if all the whites from South Africa resettled in the United States!

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/wor...,2161610.story

Whites weigh comfort and race in new South Africa
One in a series of occasional articles documenting the issues of South Africa's first post-apartheid generation
By Scott Calvert | Sun foreign reporter
October 14, 2007
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Single page view Reprints Reader feedback Text size: PRETORIA, South Africa - The vicious rumor at the Afrikaans Boys High School earlier this year went like this: Upon the death of Nelson Mandela, an underground army organized by the black-led ruling political party would rise up and kill whites across South Africa in belated revenge for decades of apartheid oppression.

Among white students at this school that once educated the sons of apartheid-era presidents and prime minsters, the improbable scenario took on a name, Operation White Cleanup. "I think it's just a rumor," said Wian Prinsloo, 16, "but it shows how afraid people are."

That fear - of crime, affirmative action, lost privilege, a government deemed hostile - is one factor behind an exodus of whites to Australia, Canada, the United States and elsewhere. Since apartheid ended 13 years ago, the white population has fallen by a quarter, according to the South African Institute of Race Relations. That would give whites 8 percent of the population of 47 million, their lowest share in decades, and down from more than 10 percent a decade ago.

Wian, still in 11th grade, already wants to move overseas, too, despite a comfortable upper-middle-class life. "I just don't think we can survive here," he said. "It feels like the blacks in this country are trying to get us to leave."

He is part of the post-apartheid generation that has come of age since apartheid's demise - young people who are largely, though not entirely, free of the emotional baggage their parents carry. They are known as Mandela's Children for the jailed anti-apartheid hero who became South Africa's president in 1994.

Mandela, 89 and frail, has long dreamed of a "nonracial" society in which youth across the racial spectrum would help cement the tenuous bonds of equality. But if whites keep leaving, that dream could wither.

Although there appear to be no surveys focused on young whites, pessimism is hardly universal. Steffan van Heerden, also 16, is upbeat about the country. He and his family went to the U.S. in 1994 for work but are now happy to be back in South Africa - for good, they hope.

Another young white South African, 22-year-old John Botha, recently returned from America as well. Now working on a game farm, he falls in the middle: cautiously optimistic yet not sure he can build a life here.

Together, the trio reflect the varied views young whites have toward a land that whites have inhabited since the 1650s. Descendants of those first Dutch settlers feel thoroughly African. They call themselves Afrikaners and speak a unique tongue, Afrikaans. But many have left Africa.

At the moment, departing whites far exceed the trickle of returnees. The unknown - and unknowable - question is how these trends may shift as today's youngsters grow up and decide where and how to live.

Frans Cronje, who researched white emigration for the race relations institute, predicts that the current course may well continue. His analysis disputes official figures, suggesting that a smaller 14 percent drop in the white population occurred mostly in the early 1990s. Ominously, he says, many who have left lately are just in their 20s and 30s.

"We've created this rainbow nation, but a lot of that rainbow is running away," he said. "Fifty years in the future, South Africa's white population could be 2 or 3 percent of the national population. I'd be surprised if it was that much."

Government leaders rarely talk about the size of the white population. About the only time they do acknowledge it is in connection with the nation's skills shortage. Because apartheid left whites generally well-educated, those who leave often take valuable skills in engineering and other fields.

On the surface, it's hard to see why the Prinsloos would feel anything but content. They have a large home filled with nice things. Willem Prinsloo is a well-paid orthopedic surgeon; his wife, Riana, keeps the practice's books. Wian attends one of the best high schools around. His older brother Dirk, 20, studies at the University of Pretoria.

Their high standard of living mirrors the good fortunes of many whites. Their pessimism also mirrors white attitudes. Only 45 percent of whites feel positive about the country's future, according to a poll by TNS Research Surveys - well below the 75 percent of blacks who do.

A major factor is crime. South Africa's murder rate is eight times that of the U.S., with 50 killings a day. Most victims are poor and black, but violent crimes, including carjackings and home invasions, are common in largely white areas. In March, 70 percent of whites living in big cities told pollsters that crime had gotten worse.

Wian and his mother were held up at gunpoint in a hotel room while vacationing in Cape Town. In Pretoria, crime has hit close to home. A friend of Riana Prinsloo was shot to death last year, and this year the 23-year-old son of one of Willem Prinsloo's colleagues was murdered outside his home.

"You hear about these things all the time," said Wian.

The danger rules their lives, said his brother, Dirk: "You never go out alone. If we stay out late we try to go in a group, drive in the same car." Thanks to the electric fence and other security measures, "your house feels like a jail. I don't even know my neighbor's name."

For Wian, overlaying the safety concerns are worries about his job prospects after college.

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Old 10-15-2007, 10:44 AM
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I was flipping through the radio dial yestern and caught part of an NPR (nappy primate radio) piece on SA. I can't find the transcript, but the gist of it was there are a bunch of apes whining and wailing 'bout how dey wants Apartheid to return. It seems that having niggers in charge is a million-times worse than when the White Man ruled with an iron fist.

Firstly, kafirs don't pay any taxes, and even if they did, there is no mo' welfare being handed out. Affirmative action niggers who gain a small amount of wealth are dead against sharing it with anyone but themselves. Then, with no hand-outs and no restraining White hand the blacks resort to their TNB ways. Crime is rampant because the Whites basically told the beasts to fend for themselves; with typical results. The nigger police forces are themselves terrified and don't intervene.

The nigger-loving correspondent is forced to woefully state that niggers are their own worst enemies. Here's the link if you've got a few minutes to listen to these niggers' pathetic complaints; I found it highly amusing:

Race, Income Gap Persistent Problems in South Africa
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Quote from the radio programme : "A black man's medicine is the white man". Very interesting indeed. South Africa is a perfect model to show what happens when a white government is taken over by a black population. You can also see this on a smaller scale in American cities such as Detroit, New Orleans, etc. I am just so thankful that the White South African gorvernment had the forethought to dismantle their nuclear weapons programme before they left office. I'm sure that they knew apartheid was going to end soon, and they didn't want niggers in charge of nuclear weapons. I feel so sad for the white South Africans, but then again white Americans could be next.
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Quote from the radio programme : "A black man's medicine is the white man". Very interesting indeed. South Africa is a perfect model to show what happens when a white government is taken over by a black population. You can also see this on a smaller scale in American cities such as Detroit, New Orleans, etc. I am just so thankful that the White South African gorvernment had the forethought to dismantle their nuclear weapons programme before they left office. I'm sure that they knew apartheid was going to end soon, and they didn't want niggers in charge of nuclear weapons. I feel so sad for the white South Africans, but then again white Americans could be next.
The white South African government were in fact the puppets of the western ruling governments, who were the instigators responsible for the state of South Africa as it is today. South Africa was not "taken over". South Africa was sold out by it's own white traitors.....Afrikaners under the orders and direction of the West......American and British administrations backed by it's blinkered brainwashed voters. If you knew anything about the truth of South Africa, then you would know that the Nationalist party of South Africa was taken over in a bloodless coup by white traitors under the hammer & sickle of the West. The South African nuclear program was long before the hand over to the "kaffir," decided by all parties. Do you think your government are stupid? They made quite sure that the incoming traitorous white turncoats would have the directorate, means and ability to dismantle all nuclear weapons and capabilities before the inferior kaffir took the so called reigns.

White South Africans, just like white Americans, were lied to, bull****ed and conned into beleiving the greatest lie of mankind.........the lie is.......your so called elected government want's the best for you! America is the last bastion of freedom in the world, and that is fading fast, soon you will have a rag head for a president and the stupid thick leftist morons of the world will applaud him.......untill the **** hit's the fan and it's way too late, just like those stupid White South Africans did in their disgusting referendum so many years ago. Americans.......look at Southern Africa and see yourselves in the mirror!
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