Wow........I guess the whites that left South Africa are still fighting from the outside trying to bash the country by using the media.
The article skews the facts, this is not journalism but someone with an agender.
Since 1994 the whites have been bashing this country with the rand dropping from R7/$ to 13/$ only to come all the way back to a high of 5.80/$ in 2004, because it was all false hysteria. So the question is this, for a country achieveing consistent growth, halving the unemployment, increasing the education level of the general population, keeping inflation in line and running a budget surplus, why all the bashing by ex-SA whites? You bashed this country pre-94 and it grew stronger and today you do the same. To all those neutral people i challenge you to gather the true facts and judge yourself and do not read sloppy journalism.
Regarding the issue of power.......why doesn't these doomsayers talk about the 60 billion allocated to soleve the energy issue? Why do they not say that
only 10% of energy supply was effected? Why dont they say that the Mining companies were running at full capacity weeks ago when the power company came up with a solution to keep then running? I could go on and on with this issue!
There are issues, many issue and crime is one of them but this stems from the actions of the former oppressive whote government. Regarding the political issues, these will never turn violent as all is being handled through the rule of Law. Rrgarding the disbanding of the eilite crime fighting unit "the scorpions", why do the doomsayers not say the the public will have a say in this as well as all the other opposing parties as this is in line with the constitution? This is not a country in chaos.
The white people of this country continue to be racist as the latest guy who went into a black township and started shooting woman and children. They still turn people of any color, other than white from establishments such as resorts, nightclubs, residential property leasing. Many have vowed to leave the country and bad mouth it from the outside as it is shown by the many websites they have running even some showing a nazi sign.
It is alarming that Brittish whites are helping these crazy ex south african whites, i cannot understand why?
In short, gdp will continue to be positive, unemployent will contnue to drop, the rand is historically very volatile so it will stabilisie, the political issue will be hande suitably and there will be no civil war(its a joke to even think this if you have been to this country), the only real issue is crime in certain areas. Regarding 2010, this country held the cricket world cup, rugby world cup and many other vents with no issue. The FIFA delegation says everything is on track and many tourists will be here.
I challenge anyone with facts, reasonable level of thinking an understanding that this country does have issue, to challenge my points? I SEE MANY RACISTS CEASING THE OPPORTUNITY HERE, SA WHITES ARE WAY BEHIND WHITES FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD IN TERMS OF PREJUDICE!