Posted on 12/05/2021 3:16:06 PM PST by Rummyfan
During the local election campaign Ferial Haffajee wrote about the sad state of her part (and every part) of Johannesburg: litter everywhere, potholes, street lights and traffic lights that don’t work, irregular water, irregular power, uncollected rubbish and all the rest of it. When she recited this lament to the ANC she was angrily accused of “nostalgia for the white city”.
In today’s South Africa it is, of course, politically inadmissible to say that the whites got anything right so instead Ferial recorded sadly how in the years before 1994 there had been lots of bold talk by the UDF about how much better in every respect things would be in the new, liberated South Africa. The developmental state. People’s education. Reconstruction and development. The comrades gave such inspiring speeches about these matters.
Ferial is a nice woman but her perspectives are so encased in a sort of terminal political correctness that she can’t call a spade a spade. But imagine the angry black voters of Soweto or Ekurhuleni who booed Ramaphosa, or the Indian voters of Chatsworth, or the Coloured voters of the Cape Flats: if you accused them of “nostalgia for the white city” you’d be told “Absolutely. You bet. So’s everybody.”
It is indeed a no-brainer. Cheap, plentiful and reliable electricity. Sewage and water systems that work properly. Street lights and traffic lights ditto. Decent roads, litter that gets collected, law and order: what’s not to like?
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Truth. Turned out that destroying a society and "building back better" along more "equitable" lines only resulted in poverty except for the head thieves, who are now discovering that there is nothing left to steal and nowhere to hide. Unless, of course, they're big enough thieves to have Swiss bank accounts and estates on the Cote d'Azur. The new boss wasn't the same as the old boss, he was much worse.
The roads. It is always the roads. You want to know if your government is being responsible and doing what it should be doing? Look at the condition of the roads.
The same can be said of Venezuela.
The Romans built roads that still exist after two thousand years.
Even here in the US, an honest analysis may conclude that blacks were safer and had a better life under Jim Crow and segregation than they do in the slums of Democrat run cities today.
As bad as things were in the 1950’s, at least black mothers didn’t have to worry as much about their young kids getting shot.
“Unless, of course, they’re big enough thieves to have Swiss bank accounts and estates on the Cote d’Azur.”
No one does their illicit banking in Switzerland anymore. The Caymans have taken that niche market. Sewn it up tight.
The French Riviera?
If the muslim hordes and Hollywood whores haven’t ruined it yet.
Myself, I would probably prefer Spain or Portugal over France.
Sounds like Venesuala redux.
“The same can be said of Venezuela.”
Yep, F/K/A/ the RICHEST nation in South America. Now they eat out of the garbage.
THANKS COMMIES!!!
*** The Caymans have taken that niche market. Sewn it up tight. ***
Swiss shot themselves in the penis when they caved to Deep State demands for
information concerning American’s secret accounts.
“the sad state of her part (and every part) of Johannesburg: litter everywhere, potholes, street lights and traffic lights that don’t work, irregular water, irregular power, uncollected rubbish and all the rest of it. When she recited this lament to the ANC she was angrily accused of “nostalgia for the white city”.”
“Keeping it real.”
“Swiss shot themselves in the penis when they caved to Deep State demands for information concerning American’s secret accounts.”
That and their playing nice with the NAZI’s and every tin pot African dictator and drug lord and.....the list goes on.
Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years entirely because he refused to renounce the ANC’s policy of using violence to gain control of government.
And now those are the thugs who are in power.
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