Where are the SA regulars?

Vic appears to be on money. However, Cricket has been made a dirty word by all these players who manipulate the results more for money.

I cannot understand anyone mentioning the violence thing having read this article.

A food crit would never talk about which cars to buy or not.

The man is an economist and is writing about the economy and if anyone owns shares,a house or business or even reads the budget, then they will know that the man (Vic) is right. The economy is doing well and I would never argue about that. Some of you will have read my relies to the questions on violence which I believe should be taken head on. However give credit where it is due. Trevor Manual has done a good job so far.

I cannot speak about the hospitals as I no longer live there and if they are that bad then maybe he should spend some of that cash.

Personally I still would not live there as money is not my priority,quality of life in other ways is.

One other thing about the economy, the world bank has recently lifted South African Rating,so they must be doing something right.

I think Vic was simply trying to show a different angle of things since most other angles have been addressed before. Maybe trying to make some more money by doing something new. The ending of his article pretty much sums it up:

"Young man, my advice is simple: there are wonderful opportunities in SA, even if, despite your BSc, you spend the next five years driving a 10-ton tip truck and at the same time learn how to become an independent entrepreneur."

I think Vic took his own advice and has been driving that 10-ton truck of journalism for too long. He's now getting desperate and is trying anything he can to appear "entrepreneurial" in his writing.

BEE is in full power, so unless the giovernment owns the companies, is it up to them to say, when they are gaining so much out of companies like Telkom? (Let's not even get into the cost of internet bandwidth in SA, etc). Yeah, let's see if BEE can further what AA didn't manage to damage enough (before companies started drawing attention to how it was damaging their very business, customer confidence since people employed had no idea what they were doing). Let's be honest, shall we?

I find the article hopelessly one-sided, as it fails to cover things like the farms that are white-owned, most of them have had to change their very core business due to crime, ie livestoick being killed, with no action from the police.

Boring, one-sided, and not very good at it either.

Oh man, this is uncanny, this reeks of Mugabe ism.

This is so deja vu.

Check out this link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR6mwzPjDfs

The only thing that I heard mentioned by vic was money.

But is money a measure of quality of life - especially when it is so visible to those that don´t have it.

Most of the 1 million whites that left South Africa had money, otherwise they would not have been able to leave.

The yardstick for happiness remains and will always be - quality of life.

As long as people use money to search for happiness they will do just that - search for happiness.

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Zim $, I challenge you to search through my answers and find something that supports your accusations of me being a hypocrite.

And when you don't find anything will you be man enough to apologise?

The reasons i give as to why people leave is and has always been - crime and bad politics (including AA).

And if the South African economy is thriving, then how come so many governmental institutions, like hospitals are closing or can hardly function, and the police are so short staffed and equipped, the jails are at 300% capacity, people have to wait so long for I.D.s or birth certificates etc.

Just about the only governmental body functioning properly is the department of finance, and the irony of that is not lost on most.

You on the other hand are the biggest hypocrite - you say that you welcome whites and that South Africa is for whites as well , but given the opportunity you were the first to vote "wazzup"s extremely racist anti-white and pro black answers as best answer!

And I can find the proof in your answers and questions.

It seems that in the face of reason and logic you, like the ANC government, continually resort to name calling and fogging tactics.

What's interesting about that article, is that, to the right of it, under the section ' Other Related Articles' is an article titled 'Million whites leave SA - study'.

Now, if South Africa is this paradise for whites, why did those million people leave?

Let me answer you this way. The article is reflective of the definition some South Africans put on the quality of life. Money and wealth dominates all thoughts. Never mind the slaughter of innocents, the rape and mutilation of children, the fact it is unsafe to go out after dark,the mayhem on the roads and in Shopping Malls etc. etc. as long as you can make money.

It defines the shallowness of the author and another desperate attempt to stop the intellectual capital fleeing the Country.

On the net doing practice.

Yup, sounds like he has it just about right - I recon. Nothing is going to be handed out on any plates anymore.

YAWN it's old news and so is the crime stats, now can't we have some good news for a change that makes everybody happy and proud, can't stand all the politics on this forum.