S. Africa's rand is falling, but no one knows why (racism suspected)

Miami Herald ^ | February 3, 2002 | JOHN MURPHY, Baltimore Sun

[Gaas]

Your email box is full again

[nopardons]

Gee, bucko , we're working on getting FOUR out; but I, my husband, my daughter and son-in-law, don't own a company that can LEGITIMATLY bring in my son-in-law's sister, her husband, and their kids ... let alone the rest of his family and friends. Sooooo, since none of us qualify, to be able to be their sponser, money, for the lottery visa is about all that we can supply. Care to sponser them, loudmouth ?

Holland won't take them, and neither will the USA ! You don't have any idea what kind of hoops and red tpe their is, to get people here, BUCKO ! There are colonies , of South African ex-pats living in the . Most of them are here only temprarily, on working visas. There are a FEW lucky ones, who have managed to get permnent statis; however bucko , that isn't easy.

Since you claim to know this subject far better than I, bucko , how many family members , of YOURS are South African ? How many South Africans do you talk with on a daily / weekly basis ? How many South Africans have YOU actually gone through the process with, of getting a green card for ? Oh yes, and just how many grandchildren, descended from South African stock, are YOU going to be able to have , BUCKO ? I'll have as many grandkids, calling me grandma, as my daughter and her South African born & bred Husband produce, bucko !

Oh, and NO, my daughter did NOT marry her husband, in some " phoney " way, so that he could get his green card. My son-in-law had been here legitimatly / legally, for more than 2 years, when they met, and was in NO danger of " having " to get that kind of help. So don't even start with me ... bucko .

[nopardons]

Sorry ! I'll clean it out. You CAN always FREEPmail me.

[GOPJ]

The situation is South Africa is so sad, but when massive death is black on black, the world doesn't care. I'm glad I don't live there, it's probably going to get worse.

Violent deaths from 1994 to 2000: And the SA Police reports that a total of 174,220 people died violent deaths, from crime-related violence, between 1994 and the year 2000.

[nopardons]

Many thanks for showering some light AND actual facts on the matter, my dear. : - )

[Dan from Michigan]

with 21,000 murders in 2000 alone

There's the biggest problem. I think South Africa has about the population of California. I think that is 6000 more murders than the entire US.

Not to mention that racist Pol Pot fan next door in Zimbabwae. I'm no fan of Aparthied, but it looks like South Africa is failing badly.

I think there are two stable countries that are growing in Sub-Saharha Africa. I forgot which two, and they are cursed with some awful neighbors(One neighbors Rawanda).

[getsoutalive]

Happy to be invested in some drooy myself. Just worried about much ugliness to come.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's a horrible thing to see happen. Some intervention must be done sooner than later. We'll be called on later, after much more damage is done.

When I read the accounts from FReepers with family and friends trapped in SA it makes me see red that the LIBERAL media buries it's head in the sand.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

South Africa is clawing it's way to the bottom, soon to join the bottom third of third world countries.

That's what communists do, they leave misery and death where ever they go.

[Wonder Warthog]

"Some of you might be in industries where you get in contact with many ex-South Africans, but spare a thought for the rest, like ALL of my family and friends that are still stuck back there."

Believe me, I do. And I hope that many more succeed in emigrating.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LIBERALS know but this is just collateral damage to them as they move toward creating the perfect world.

[nopardons]

Thank you .

[Michael2001]

Whenever a black man is poor or hungry or miserable anywhere in the world, the white man is always at fault.

[Michael2001]

At Johannesburg's exclusive Butcher Shop & Grill, where diners must book a table a week in advance and no one under 14 is allowed, a three-course meal of snails, the most expensive steak on the menu and a Caesar salad is just $9.94.

You would have to pay me a lot more than $9.94 to eat a three course meal of snails.

[Michael2001]

Well, in South Africa, the problem IS racism---but the racism is "black-on-white" violence.

There is no such thing.. or at least that's what our media says

[Michael2001]

It must be very hard to try and live and raise a family as a white person in today's South Africa. My sympathy to your family. These people should be able to come here under political assylum. I have a feeling they would make good immigrants, who would assimilate here rather easily.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

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