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by buyx 10mo ago
My grandfather died at a hospital in South Africa in 1997 after experiencing chest pain. Apparently, he went to reception, and they told him and my uncle to take a lift/elevator up to the ward, and he died in the lift. I was told after
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by buyx 1y ago
$100 a month for a South African is not a trivial amount. Definitely putting his money where his mouth is.
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by buyx 1y ago
I don't know how pretending to read literature in later grades helped with reading, especially when the reading scores referenced in that article are assessed years before students hit that point.
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by buyx 1y ago
I read every book that was assigned to us, until grade 12, when we got something called "July's People" by Nadine Gordimer. Nobel Prize winner or not, she used literary techniques that were well beyond us, and we lacked teach
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by buyx 1y ago
It sounds like a universal experience in high school is students not reading assigned literature. In South Africa many of my now middle-aged HS friends, most of whom subsequently graduated university and have successful careers, used study
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by buyx 3y ago
Same in South Africa...."mutton" usually refers to lamb. almost no one has a "lamb curry" or "lamb bunny" (Google it). It's "mutton curry" or a "mutton bunny".
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by buyx 3y ago
My good friend from South Africa tells me how she and her husband miss cooking with mutton, which they find more flavorful and satisfying than lamb. What happens to the mutton-aged sheep here?” Just to clarify: lamb is far more common i
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by buyx 3y ago
The Afrikaans version may be comprehensible to a Dutch speaker, but the Dutch version, even the version you posted, is still very hard for this (second-language) Afrikaans reader to understand.
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by buyx 3y ago
It's interesting that the page says that Afrikaans was derived from Dutch in the 20th century, but the two languages are so different. Dutch: Ik kan glas eten. Het doet geen pijn. Afrikaans: Ek kan glas eet, dit maak my nie seer nie
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by buyx 3y ago
Himba bushmen It's rare to see an error in the opening sentence of an article, and maybe a nitpick but I believe "bushmen" usually refers to San hunter-gatherer nomads, not Bantu language-speaking pastoralists.
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by buyx 3y ago
I can recall many, many years ago (20+), reading an article about the future of telephones. The article proposed that many developing nations would never install landlines with full penetration because mobile phones are so much cheaper. Th
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by buyx 3y ago
Mao’s reforms led to millions of deaths. China grew after the 70s. But in any case, thanks for clarifying your conception of “discomfort”.
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by buyx 3y ago
India and China have both managed to uplift their economies in the last 30 years without the “discomfort” of violent crime, increasing corruption, the collapse of state institutions and an inability to generate electricity. Of course reduci
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by buyx 3y ago
What makes you think I’m white? In any case, apart from many Afrikaners, whites are increasingly irrelevant to the discussion about South Africa’s future-they’re dwindling as a percentage of the population because of aging, emigration, hig
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by buyx 3y ago
South Africa is a deteriorating shithole. My mother was telling me that they want to move to guarded security estate because she is afraid she might be raped, and my father bludgeoned in their home. (NB: they’re not under threat because of
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by buyx 3y ago
If you look at that author’s articles on South Africa; they seem to echo right-wing Afrikaner talking-points. It doesn’t mean it’s all wrong, but important to recognise the limitations of the source.
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by buyx 4y ago
Blacks are the people who would suffer the worst from this attitude, since whites tend to be richer and able to buy their way out of trouble (generators, solar, batteries, private schools, private healthcare). It may possibly have been a th
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by buyx 4y ago
Corruption, an incompetent civil service stuffed with political appointees, terrible education system, open borders (sorry, but it's a fact....you can't have huge unemployment and open borders with large numbers of undocumented pe
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by buyx 4y ago
I think whites are going to be increasingly irrelevant in South Africa, and apart from the poor, the old, and ideologically motivated Afrikaners, I suspect that they are going to continue to emigrate in increasing numbers. Indians are alre
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by buyx 4y ago
Zuma may have acted like a shower could prevent AIDS, but he also oversaw the rollout of anti-retroviral drugs that pushed life expectancy up. In fact, that was one of the reasons why he was elevated to power: Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism l
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by buyx 4y ago
The article makes it clear that the miners are mostly illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries. The country has reasonably strong labour laws, but employers, who never really moved beyond the cheap servile labour model under apartheid
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by buyx 4y ago
And this: https://www.tralac.org/news/article/6931-surge-in-botswana-s...
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by buyx 4y ago
It's a tiny country (population 2.3 million, vs South Africa's 60 million), mono-ethnic, rich in diamonds, strong culture of law and order. South Africa also props Botswana up via a customs union. https://www.tralac.org
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by buyx 4y ago
The poor masses have voted opposition parties in at municipal level a few times now. It's just a matter of time before the ANC's vote share drops below 50%. The real question is where those votes are going to go instead. The Democ
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by buyx 4y ago
Thabo Mbeki was an AIDS denialist, he's been out of power since 2008 and largely discredited. Jacob Zuma came to power partially because he wasn't an AIDS denialist, and one of the few things Zuma can claim credit for was widespre
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by buyx 4y ago
In 2017/2018 people could just go to a bank, or one of the many foreign exchange companies that operate in SA, and transferred their money anywhere in the world, legitimately. Exchange controls have been largely done away with for indi
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by buyx 4y ago
You don’t need to do any of this. Exchange controls were relaxed a while ago and taking money out of South Africa isn’t difficult for most people.
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by buyx 4y ago
that confiscates private property Private property rights are intact in South Africa (for now perhaps, but things are bad enough without the need for exaggeration). Also, monetary (exchange) control regulations are quite loose nowadays, a
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by buyx 4y ago
The ANC is structurally broken: that’s the bottom line. The same sort of intrigue that happens in the Chinese Communist Party ruling circles happens in the ANC (not surprising since both are organised under the same principles), meaning tha
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by buyx 4y ago
To add to your point: the roots of South Africa’s energy crisis date back to the early 90s, when the apartheid government was finishing up. Until the late 1980s, the apartheid government were into central planning, price controls and other

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