I received the following from someone in an email and wondered how many other countries have the same problems:
It’s Great to be a Souf Efrikan (South African)
This is a great country because:
You can eat half dried meat and not be considered disgusting.
Nothing is your fault, you can blame it all on apartheid.
You get to buy a new car every 3 months and the insurance company even pays for it.
You can experience bad service in eleven official languages.
Where else can you get oranges with 45% alcohol content at rugby matches?
It’s the only country in the world where striking workers show how angry they are by dancing.
You’re considered clumsy if you cannot: use a cell phone (without car kit), change CDs, drink a beer, put on make-up, read the newspaper and smoke, all at the same time while driving a car at 160 kph in a 60 kph zone.
Condoms are given to Sensus workers.
If you live in Johannesburg, you get to brag about living in the most dangerous city in the world.
Burglar bars become a feature, and a great selling point for your house.
You can decorate your garden walls with barbed wire.
The tow-trucks are the first on the scene for most major crimes, without being called. The police you have to call about three times.
Illegal immigrants leave the country because the crime rate is too high.
The police ask you if they must follow up on the burglary you’ve just reported.
When a drug dealer gets a 6 month sentence and a pirate TV viewer 2 years.
The prisoners strike and get to vote in elections!
The police stations have panic buttons to call armed response when they are burgled
Police cars are fitted with immobilisers and gearlocks!
It holds the record of being the rape Capitol of the world.
Prisoners get time off because the prisons are overcrowded.
The President are out of the country for more than 4 months in a year.
They sometimes forget to appoint a standby President when both the President and his second-in-charge are out of the country.
The President believes there is no such thing as an HIV-virus.
Condoms freely given out to people are stapled to the instructions how to use it.
Where it is debated whether maruana shouldn’t become a legal agricultural product.
At least we can still laugh at what’s happening. How are your Afrikaans?
There are so many things pulling for South Africa and it is such a great country. No matter how things turn out, there are many-many people that will always love this country. I know some people don’t like the old Stem because of Apartheid but the Afrikaans last bit says it all:
“Ons sal lewe, ons sal sterwe, ons vir jou Suid-Afrika!”
Maybe the present politicians/children should again be reminded of this part.
