how is south africa doing?

Question

hi
i was born in south africa and moved to Australia with my parents and i grew up in Cape Town.
I was just wondering how South africa is doing as i havent been back home in about 5 years.

THanks

yeah its pretty much true...there is just about no crime here in Australia.
I honestly think that it has the best weather and friendly people, the safest country, but yeah you do get crime here as you do all over the world but it is not alot.
But i still miss South africa and nothing can compeat with its beauty and culture.

Answer 1

Don´t look back.

South Africa is still South Africa, All the reasons that made your parents want to leave in the first place are still there, and probably only worse.

Thank your parents and really have a good think about how much they care about yours and the families future.
Think about the huge sacrifice they had to make to immigrate to another country and all the planning that went behind it.

Remember, in addition to your problems in a new country, your parents had the additional pressures of adjusting to new jobs and a new system.

You are in a healthier, happier and safer environment now.

I live with my wife in Spain.
We are also much happier now, and we get to do the things that we loved to do so much in our past in South Africa.

Enjoy.
All the best,
a fellow ex-patriate

Answer 2

first of all that they had the domicile benefit and their gamers have completely tailored to the circumstance over there. triumphing against Australia by chasing 438 runs exchange right into a miracle and such issues can take place in ordinary terms very not often. luckily for South Africa, they did no longer get panicked after Australia set one in all those severe score and their batsmen got here in super type in that tournament. thus far as triumphing 4-0 against India, the actuality maintains to be that South Africa is a much reliable and better factor in assessment to India in batting, bowling and fieldingr. extra to this success exchange into completely of their favour as they have been tottering around 20 to twenty-5 over point in first 2 fits and published enormous score by the efforts of their later order batsmen and tail enders. I call it fortunate because of the fact such issues do no longer take place very frequently in cricket. In popular direction in the journey that your precise 6 batsmen are out interior of 25 overs, the factor would be folded up earlier accomplishing their quota of fifty overs. even nevertheless, whilst it comes to SDouth Africa, success exchange into of their favour and their last batsmen fought lower back.

Answer 3

I just left after having lived there all my life, I'd rather live anywhere else than there since I plan on getting married and having kids in a SAFE environment not behind fifteen walls etc etc. I'm happy in Singapore and most likely will take cotizenship if it's offered.

Answer 4

You haven't really missed a thing. It's like Egoli over here. No matter how many episodes you miss, you can pick up the storyline almost immediately.

Answer 5

I like Great Blistering Barnacles answer!

Answer 6

Hey
We are doing good the Easters were brilliant.
You we are doing the best we can for a 3rd world country which always get compared to first world counties.
I hope you are keeping well and enjoying your new home.
Yo man take advantage make as much money as possible don't settle for a normal life.
Good luck and get rich legaly now


By the way is there ZERO crime there, because it just seems too good to be true
A lot of white South Africans seem to believe that.

Answer 7

I'm with Great Blistering Barnacles too - nothing changes, everything changes - especially Cape Town, its eternal.

Answer 8

SA is fine, great. Still beautiful. We won the cricket. And dream of winning the cup, though not possible right now. Mugabe is still a pain in the */-+. So yeah, nothing has changed.

Answer 9

SA is fine and getting better as the europeans flee day by day. UK, AUS and USA are getting their fair share of the monsters.

Answer 10

You are living in probably the best of the New World Countries and should be thankful you got out of South Africa which is destined to be the next Zimbabwe. This article tells you why:
In an effort to compensate for years of apartheid, South Africa is reclaiming white-owned land and redistributing it to black settlers. The first of these enforced seizures was carried out earlier this month. The plan reeks of the problems endemic to the same land-reform idea employed in now-economically-desolate Zimbabwe.

South African President Thabo Mbeki “has come under criticism for failing to resolve the issue of land restitution, something he promised to complete by 2005,” wrote Stratfor (February 15). In order to head off a challenge to his leadership of the African National Congress (anc) ahead of party primaries scheduled for December, he has pushed land reform toward the Zimbabwe model.

For some years, under South Africa’s “land reform” policy, white-owned farms have steadily been taken over based on a “willing buyer, willing seller” principle. During this time, immense pressure has been placed on farmers, with squatters illegally occupying white-owned farms and government security doing nothing about it. Mid last year, the South African government went one step further by giving white farmers an ultimatum: Sell their farms for an agreed price within six months or face being forcefully evicted from their farms.

Now, the government is making good on that threat. In its first expropriation of privately owned land, the government seized a 62,271-acre farm in Barkley West owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church on February 13.

This same type of land redistribution program was a primary cause of Zimbabwe’s plummet to economic ruin. President Robert Mugabe started his forcible land redistribution program for political purposes, just as Mbeki is doing. While Mugabe succeeded in getting re-elected, the ripple effects through Zimbabwe’s economy include uncontrollable inflation rates and unemployment hovering around 70 percent. It is believed that South Africa may follow in the unsuccessful footsteps of its northern neighbor.

While many people suffered wrongly under apartheid, land redistribution will create only more problems. The clanging of Zimbabwe’s tumbling economy bears witness to that. Making whites turn over their farms to people with, in many cases, little or no farming experience could have a devastating effect on the country’s economy. South Africa, which has been so richly blessed in natural resources, may find itself trying to live off fallow ground.