South Africa P.I.G.: SA EXPATS

Better off in Australia

I am a South African living in Australia. We left SA four years ago. It is hard living away from friends and family and we miss South Africa but the good arguments for living away from SA are: - There is no crime. - There is a future for white people. - We have the luxury of walking anywhere at any time of day or night. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoG416zoBbAfOtaxx4zcNaFsWapQjsjikGuELGe7yS0UgaymcU9T6G1WZxXpr8-mkg8Zu1EvUdDFZP1KIYtRlc8YDmSFCJxKdxgnGyjZXevZcHwbsn0IngIqnnaLBGAxfQgPRUIf4aeha1/s1600/south-africans.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5550758154491276850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoG416zoBbAfOtaxx4zcNaFsWapQjsjikGuELGe7yS0UgaymcU9T6G1WZxXpr8-mkg8Zu1EvUdDFZP1KIYtRlc8YDmSFCJxKdxgnGyjZXevZcHwbsn0IngIqnnaLBGAxfQgPRUIf4aeha1/s400/south-africans.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: right; HEIGHT: 331px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>- People look after themselves and the average person doesn't become the baby-sitter of their domestic staff. - Money is worth something here. - Everything works. - There is no litter. - Nothing is broken. - The government is very efficient. - If you are unemployed you will not starve. - You don't have to live with guilt forced on you by whinging formally disadvantaged people. - Life is simpler. - Public transport is fantastic. - My children can travel on any bus or train on their own. Yes it is expensive but you earn more here and interest rates are much less. We will never go back to SA to live - thanks but no thanks. There is so much good life to be had outside of SA. Life is too short to live scared and pissed off every day of your life.

Better off in Australia

I am a South African living in Australia. We left SA four years ago. It is hard living away from friends and family and we miss South Africa...

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South Africans living abroad

Ireland 'better than SA' by Melony Pinto <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiC-hzYIB1gNB9IfabrBhUa-5pOHWHFA0TsHiJ0fjiaisWa1zm6oFllV6mH_dHGFmsuXK4rvU3s7uZG-WvqQ-neRgLI1BuSXs9MGN7lhzZC91oa0oQRVyzVSQT06xDl7CmLKme86RDhoVlN/s1600/south-africans.jpg"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27XgDes6mWW98YQz3UTKoz-kEcaXyoZyWAjRxicQ8tGf-0m3MrhfXu9d_WkDj1ePht6vC3UjbyztTuFz-JkdcHvrF67_srgKckRqUbRwCsPNMj6QI1Wz5AzZpiGnoL9On6-_EWgpnSBZY/s1600/south-africans.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539099795230863138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh27XgDes6mWW98YQz3UTKoz-kEcaXyoZyWAjRxicQ8tGf-0m3MrhfXu9d_WkDj1ePht6vC3UjbyztTuFz-JkdcHvrF67_srgKckRqUbRwCsPNMj6QI1Wz5AzZpiGnoL9On6-_EWgpnSBZY/s320/south-africans.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 193px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>I have been living in Ireland for over 2 years. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDzymhJ7gY47-5U7m8QuQjFJQF_2toPhHUuE30B4PHFfbonc6eDSCF6YfzjnAzi3q7KacisX7u-Q5Z6ssndx2dxf8yJ6K7YtODZSSOle7zf9FvE6fNW2mU1b2kcdtVpfmjVrnYT_-rTLZ_/s1600/bigfoot.jpg"></a>The attitude I have found towards us is diverse. My children have had only joy in their school environment and have never once had the misfortune of bullies as they had in SA. The children are open and accepting to all people. The school system is far superior to that of SA. The teachers are far superior to SA and they are doing the jobs they get paid to. Not once have the boys complained about teachers who refuse to help as was the case there. Their marks went from average to outstanding. Their work is far superior and harder too. I have had trouble with the government’s policies in getting residency, but they have not been shy in helping our finances when we were on hard times. SA refuses to help one live and eat, but here, we are foreigners, hardly contributed, but they help us. So keep your South Africa. I don't want to be part of the hatred and lie. I will take rain and cold any day over the life that we were forced to live, in our own prisons. I ride my bike at 21:00 in winter. I walk at 23:00. No one can understand what a horrible place that is until you don't have to put up with it anymore. Loving life in Australia by Chris <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs45b9gLttb8HH3jGr0z8QZVNBdrH0kkBQdwbh3jufXukLiHlhDBZxRV-NV6pegqpbi7tzvJTaGITN8p8TbEV2eISIyKE2esMUlLpablpB0ktTPfsCzo4Eg6gvQ9y3_UOP8lHZXK31cVC-/s1600/south-africans.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539100104987549538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs45b9gLttb8HH3jGr0z8QZVNBdrH0kkBQdwbh3jufXukLiHlhDBZxRV-NV6pegqpbi7tzvJTaGITN8p8TbEV2eISIyKE2esMUlLpablpB0ktTPfsCzo4Eg6gvQ9y3_UOP8lHZXK31cVC-/s200/south-africans.jpg" style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 121px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" /></a>I have been here for almost three years now and South Africa remains forever in my heart. Yes, it has been really difficult having to re-learn everything from getting a drivers licence to opening a bank account, the weather, the people just to name a few changes. I know this sounds cheesy by now but I really do not have a fence at all and we have decided not to get a fence as it reminds us of the way we grew up as kids. None of my neighbours have fences either. Given I live in smallish town of 60 000 people but have to add that I have everything that we need here including public and private schools, University, Tafe, all the main shops, and all the government departments that we need should we require anything. Post comes in a day. Government departments, licencing departments all work remarkably well. I have yet to find any department to be slack. Australia may not be everyone’s cup of tea. The gum trees grow on you and so do all the beautiful parrots, kangaroos and unusual animals and landscape. Public schooling: well to be honest, I have given it a try and in the beginning found children to have longer hair, scruffier uniforms and it was quite an eye opener. But what really was the real eye opener was the fantastic resources the school has and the learning environment, the teaching and the happiness of the kids. At $250 per year I can tell you it is an absolute bargain and I do not regret it for one minute. <a href="http://www.news24.com/">http://www.news24.com/</a>

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Ireland 'better than SA' by Melony Pinto I have been living in Ireland for over 2 years. The attitude I have found towards us is div...

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The 'good' name of South Africa disgraced again, still, whatever

Were Huntley's statements about crime in SA a thumbsuck? <a class="l" href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2376594" onmousedown="return clk(this.href,'news_result','','res','6','&sig2=-Pksy6OaPhtS8-OyOEI7uA','0CCoQqQIwBQ')">Toronto couple stabbed while hiking in S. Africa</a>‎ pic below - the warning sign supposed to save your lily white ass Whoppee! this should do the trick - pepper spray and whistles given to small hiking groups <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418878113985111810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjulOYoGoP-vppNCCTSaCYPwMzaabg_10K3TSw4k0jakwLIT4D_xZnjk8WRN9PqNafvOhwZ0QQZzYTxB03f1xsEFVWZ6rJ1hgb_5M9L8hyv5v082RvhkI9ubsPfeR_4iLbEWr9CwGaI67_N/s400/fernkloof-nature-reserve-warning-sign.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 269px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" /> A warning sign at the entrance to Fernkloof Nature Reserve, in Hermanus, South Africa, erected a week ago.South Africa is a hellhole of crime, do not visit while it remains the criminal infested hellhole it currently is. Follow 'white one, from suburban Hell that is Mowbray', Huntley's example stay the hell away. What you should know <ul><li>The SA police are not capable of protecting you. </li><li>SA state protection is inadequate and non-existent. </li></ul>The facts about South Africa - "stealing from whites is not a crime". Tourists, farmers, soccer fans, whoever, if you are white, beware, your life is in danger - there is no safe place in SA, not even in the mountains. Let's talk about the rift between Pretoria and OttawaQ; Who said: "If the country is so bad, why would you return after fleeing SA? ...even for a brief period. Once a person has fled South Africa due to high levels of crime he should NEVER return to visit his family or graves of his ancestors". A; The ignorant Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, in his attempt to reverse the IRB’ decision to grant Brandon Huntley refugee status. Robbed? stabbbed? We believe you, thousands wouldn't.. Oh and be sure to report these 'irrelevant' criminal acts to the inefficient cops... no thumbsucking please and no playing Die Hard 3 in Gugulethu! This leaves me with one quesion "Will the SA police find the savage, scumbag perpetrators?" Answer: "Let's not, and say we did" SAPS motto!OK two questions "How long before this docket goes missing?" by:- Wily whiner crime whinger in SA Gangster Paradise<a href="http://www.topix.net/world/africa/2009/12/toronto-banker-and-wife-stabbed-in-south-african-nature-reserve?fromrss=1" id="flink_48_7075149081043680560" target="_blank" title="Johannesburg and Toronto - Published on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009 3:10PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Dec.">Toronto banker and wife stabbed in South African nature reserve</a> ANC earns more damage and negative publicity for SA. A brutal assault on a Canadian financial executive, the second violent attack on a Canadian this month, has triggered headlines and recriminations in South Africa as the country prepares for an influx of foreign visitors during the World Cup. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiln3rnCl9Y1o8otV-OBRChjAknAoy8C_Bfc7z-JqZDaKioYk2YaTjFNUqhbtw0XkuitfADJ1EakUOUSTMTOCDhHzdnmlln_kgDsQTbeU67ACQhUn-B_5GubGsbE-raP5fU_U4PR3m0rzFR/s1600-h/Stern_couple_of_Toronto_Canada_attacked_in_Hermanus_reserve_Dec_23_2009_thumb%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418846772085814418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiln3rnCl9Y1o8otV-OBRChjAknAoy8C_Bfc7z-JqZDaKioYk2YaTjFNUqhbtw0XkuitfADJ1EakUOUSTMTOCDhHzdnmlln_kgDsQTbeU67ACQhUn-B_5GubGsbE-raP5fU_U4PR3m0rzFR/s400/Stern_couple_of_Toronto_Canada_attacked_in_Hermanus_reserve_Dec_23_2009_thumb%5B3%5D.png" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" /></a>Repeatedly stabbed and beaten with rocks on a hiking trail, robbed of their jewellery, digital cameras and cellphones, tied up with shoelaces and left bleeding on the remote mountain.The attack, two weeks after an armed assault on a 70-year-old Canadian priest that left a second priest dead, is provoking another round of soul searching over South Africa’s high rate of violent crime, along with fears that the country’s tourism business could be damaged as the soccer tournament approaches. The attacks have led to front-page headlines in South African newspapers, sparking new questions about safety for the half-million foreigners who will visit the country next June and July. President Jacob Zuma has promised to reduce crime, but a spate of armed robberies at shopping malls has prompted South African police to threaten “lethal force” against criminals.Mr. Stern, 59, and Mrs. Stern, 57, South African expats living in Canada were found by hikers about two hours after they were attacked on Tuesday morning, the fourth in two months at the busting holiday town's Fernkloof Reserve. They were flown out by helicopter, but reportedly lost a lot of blood and were hospitalized in serious condition. Martin said having hiked for more than half an hour from the entrance to the reserve at the bottom of the kloof, they were walking along a jeep track on top of the mountain when they passed two men walking in the opposite direction. <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418909872803371586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjafXwtHspNtg3OmYPkI-uS3Ev8AKGmHDmzHy76pBLWovUovz3M1WTy3tEFbuaHotQm7AERdLgcuf98PsCI_oV6JKGW0OUg8TIU2sT9G1Jup9jhXHD7JCGgIlFnEsRcAEtrHwHsb2G5dFqX/s400/martin_stern_sou_400389gm-a.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 360px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 202px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />"I said good morning, and they nodded," he said, speaking from his hospital bed at Hermanus Medi-Clinic. A few seconds later they heard running footsteps behind them and presumed joggers were approaching. "The next thing we knew we were being stabbed in the back. I was stabbed next to my kidney, and they stabbed Janet in the arm," said Martin. "They pushed us to the ground and picked up rocks." One attacker smashed Martin across the face with a rock and ripped his bag from his back using his knife. They had large hunting knives that looked about 12 inches (30cm) long, then they really started roughing us up. The attackers took a camera, Janet's watch and wedding ring and cellphone before forcing them down the slope away from the road, throwing rocks at them as they walked. About 30m down the slope the attackers used the couples' shoelaces to bind their feet and hands. "We were feeling very faint and we were beginning to pass out and they told us to lie down." When Janet tried to raise her head, they threw rocks at her, and then the couple were left alone, dehydrated, drenched in blood and weak. Staggering back to the road, they collapsed repeatedly. The Sterns have visited Hermanus annually for the past 10 years. Now settled in Toronto where Martin works in finance, they said they left South Africa in 1986 for business reasons. Fernkloof was a hiking route Martin said they hiked once or twice a year. Grant Forbes, reserve manager at Fernkloof, said that in the first attack two months ago, an Italian couple were approached from behind and held up at knifepoint: "They didn't see the guys' faces." The other two attacks were similar. In the second, a woman was slapped in the face, and in the most recent attack, three weeks ago, eight hikers were mugged by two men who beat them with their own walking sticks. In each incident the attackers were two men, although police Inspector David Payne said there was no evidence linking the attacks, which all occurred on the same trail, in the same area. Zybrandts said two men were apprehended by baboon monitors after the third attack, but they were released due to a lack of evidence. A sign was erected at the entrance to Fernkloof a week ago, warning hikers to be vigilant, and offering emergency phone numbers. Zybrandts said signs were now being erected at all informal entry points to the trail, encouraging hikers to walk in large groups and to start at the main entrance. Security guards would be provided for large groups and small groups would be given pepper spray canisters and whistles. While law enforcement teams did patrol the trails during the holiday season, their number was being increased. <img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418906028169324754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtlgvXbDfZ1WNbm0fXy02nsu3q_5bYDMIcZEjJE2vO1R0eK3U7xLD3D1NYWHQvdSqMDaJUrXkxNi3eVJg-MAXYJ_zrVBJ5gFG8DiFA5PzzAnvo9G4jLachLuxxLY3R_gbHmoegLbHat0pT/s400/fernkloof+_south_africa_war_400392artw.jpg" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 225px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" />The attack took place on a mountain hiking trail in a nature reserve near Hermanus, a famed whale-watching town on the Atlantic Ocean, east of Cape Town. Because of other mugging attacks recently, the nature reserve was posted with a large sign, warning hikers to be “vigilant at all times” and not to carry any valuables, passports or credit cards. A day before the attack, a group of hikers found a decomposed body on a hiking trail in the same nature reserve. At least four hikers have been attacked in the reserve, but the attack on the Canadians was the first since security was boosted recently, local media reported. A senior official of the Western Cape government, Alan Winde, expressed worry about what the attack on the Canadians would do for South Africa’s image in the lead-up to the World Cup. “We must not allow these kinds of attacks on anybody in our country, specifically because the eyes of the world are on us at the moment, as we are gearing up to host one of the biggest events in the world,” he told a South African media agency. Earlier this month, a Canadian priest narrowly survived an armed assault that killed another priest. Father Guido Bourgeois, a 70-year-old Catholic missionary from Canada, was able to barricade himself in a room when his house was attacked by armed robbers near Johannesburg, but another priest in the same house, 70-year-old Father Louis Blondel of France, was shot dead. He was the fourth Catholic priest to be killed in South Africa this year. A spokeswoman for Canada’s Foreign Affairs Department would not give any details of the latest incident.Canadian consular officials at the High Commission in Pretoria said they were aware of the stabbing of two Canadian citizens in South Africa, but would not be able to provide additional information because of the Privacy Act. "Consular officials are actively providing consular assistance and support to them," said Lisa Monette, a spokeswoman for Foreign Affairs and International Trade. source - <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2376594">http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2376594</a><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/toronto-banker-and-wife-stabbed-in-south-african-nature-reserve/article1410653/">http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/toronto-banker-and-wife-stabbed-in-south-african-nature-reserve/article1410653/</a>

The 'good' name of South Africa disgraced again, still, whatever

Were Huntley's statements about crime in SA a thumbsuck? Toronto couple stabbed while hiking in S. Africa ‎ pic below - the warning sig...

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