CholeZimbo wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 7:08 am
Googly wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 6:46 am
The sad fact is they can still point a finger at us when they've completely destroyed their country, they just don't know it yet. The mortal blow has been delivered. What they've done to Joburgh CBD is a snapshot of what's coming.
Current outcry is a girl of Nigerian descent contesting to be Miss SA (Born here by the way), made me think of good old Naqvi and how there is no street protests along 1st street over his citizenship.
It's weird that our "official" path to citizenship is about the most onerous there is. It's tougher to get into Zimbabwe (unless you border jump) than it is to get into a First World country. Our borders are porous though. I think it's always been tough to get citizenship here. When Rhodesia was first colonised in numbers by the British it was not easy to get in here. To get to Australia you basically had to steal a loaf of bread for free passage, but they only let people in here from UK that had a trade or a skill or a degree. That's a fact, but I'm not sure why that was the case.
The SA border was more porous though. It's essentially why this country developed so quickly and such good infrastructures were laid down in next to no time. Miraculous really, they literally built a working country in about 30 years. Those same folk of course were the first to leave when hostilities commenced, but we have a lot to thank them for.
If you look at the geological maps they created they're accurate to within meters and it was done by tape measure and compass and i guess a sextant and accurate timepiece. It's mystifying.
I had a mate renew a wildlife concession, the original beacons, cemented in place 80 years ago were accurate to within 1m when the surveyor renewed the concession (20 000 ha) and I mean it's in serious hostile hilly lion and elephant country. Nobody knows how they did it, truth be told.
Those dudes are spinning in their graves at the mess that's been created.

Anyways, still my home and I wouldn't be anywhere else. Aluta.