2007-01-30 23:16:07 · 28 answers · asked by Porgie 7 in Travel ➔ Africa & Middle East ➔ South Africa
This is genuinely a serious question and your answers don't need to be political. My answer to this question is in no way political.
2007-01-30 23:34:19 · update #1
So some comprehensive answers', taking your question quite seriously - I miss the fact that in the small community level everyone talked to everyone, there was no or very little mistrust and the level of crime was at a minimum.
Life was valued and certainly worth more than the price of a second hand car.
We had less of a refugee problem, and there were less starving people. A wonderful infrastructure of roads and communication was maintained.
However on a political and national level there is nothing to miss - apartheid was abhorrent and the worst thing SA could ever have done was give racism a name!!! And what is more they have done it again, have they not?
2007-01-31 04:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by london.oval 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How is Israel an apartheid state when it has Arab political parties in the Knesset, including an Islamic party? Israel is a Jewish state the same way Denmark is officially a Christian state, so Denmark is an apartheid state too since it has many Muslims and Atheists? If you ever watched Palestinian TV you would hear a lot worse things than what Ben Gurion wrote assuming it was even true that he wrote any of that. And he died in 1973 and his party isn't even in power anymore so his words mean little in modern Israeli politics. Why don't you take a trip to Israel and see what it is really like
2016-05-23 22:26:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-09 05:50:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't miss anything from that era except lower crime rate -- it's sad to see the rising criminality in the country.
I guess i also miss some of the protest music like Eddy Grant's JoAnna and Free Nelson Mandela.
2007-01-31 15:51:42 · answer #4 · answered by elf2002 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Politically - NOTHING.
Socially a lot. People were more for each other. Weekends were the most interesting as we would go to soccer games and music festivals. We listerned to REAL music NOT today's fakes etc.
2007-02-01 09:15:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
The absence of Affirmative Action
2007-02-01 17:15:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
South Africa used to be a very civilized country but now there's only chaos. People live in fear now and they disrespect each other. South Africa is now like one big prison compared to those years. We felt free to do what we want to do and now you can't even go for a walk or go out at night without that constant fear in your heart that you might be the next victim.
2007-01-31 18:56:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Everything. We used to be able to walk around at night , but now you can't even go out in your own front garden without the fear of being killed. I miss the fact that we were assured of jobs, but now we have to come to UK or USA or Europe to work and settle down. I miss my country very much.
2007-01-31 20:04:15 · answer #8 · answered by stevieboy69 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Porgie, Porgie, Porgie. Such a loaded question.
The second answerer inadvertently nailed it. Back when the country was becoming steadily more ungovernable, there was the constant outcry about freeing South Africa and the outrage over the white minority that presided over a semi-civilized country.
Now that South Africa has been plunged into chaos, no one says a damn thing about the genocide being inflicted on that white minority.
Don't you just love the hypocrisy?
2007-01-30 23:29:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
...the unity people had in working towarding a common goal. Trust was everything back in the days...today, we rarely see acts of trust and unity. Everyone is into it for themselves..its corruption everywhere. Its sad...
2007-01-31 23:30:42 · answer #10 · answered by CJ 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋