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Waiting for Hachiko |
Nothing to do with white land owners in SA, but in a similar vein. A few years back a young woman bought a bike I had for sale. She was from Pretoria, and said it brought her to tears seeing how her homeland has been ruined. No desire to ever return, I guess she was a naturalized US citizen then, I didn't ask. 美しい犬 | |||
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I've often thought that it sure would be great if they could invent a pill for a woman to determine what sex baby she would have. Make it cheaply available, too, in fact give it away in the third world countries. For nearly all the Western countries boys and girls would be in all likelihood chosen equally. Not so much in the third world. Within one generation, problem solved. | |||
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| Finding the sweet spot |
I was in Namibia for a 10 day plains game hunt back in 2006. One of my hosts was a charming lady well into her 80's (her cooking was absolutely out of this world! Klipspringer stew is an experience to behold) and she told some very interesting stories. I remember being astounded by the level of cruelty she had endured. She simply replied, "You must remember, you are in Africa." Sean ------------------------------------------ Just because you can, doesn't mean you should. | |||
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Trophy Husband |
Sally Struthers ~CW | |||
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Web Clavin Extraordinaire |
One of my seniors is also from Pretoria. Although she's never come out and said it, the undertones of our conversations at SA are exactly the same, and we've had a number over the three years I've taught her. I've talked to her mother too and gotten the same gist. They have no desire to return. Similarly, I went to college with the son of a SA farmer. I got the sense he wasn't ever going back and his family was trying to cash out...and this was 15 years ago before the ANC became quite so virulent as it is today. ---------------------------- Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter" Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time. | |||
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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited  |
In the "Empire of Dust" vid from page one there is a great moment at the end of the first hour where east meets Africa. A Chinese manager is perturbed at the pace of work and wants a bin of gravel measured, the Chinese speaking African tells him they aren't ready to measure yet so the manager takes the tape measure himself. He rolls the tape out and more perturbed says "This is crap, the tape's only one meter long'. The African interpreter says, "it's made in China" Chinese guy says, "How do you know?" African points and says "It says 'made in China'." One just doesn't know whether to laugh or cry or both at the same time. _______________________ | |||
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Lost Allman Brother |
I've read stories like this off and on over the years. They always remind me of a piece one of my favorite bloggers (born and bred in SA before moving to the US) wrote in 2003 called "Let Africa Sink", where he argued that any further intervention by the west to try and fix Africa's problems is pointless. Although I sure wish I had the funds to airdrop these farmers some "care packages" loaded with FALs and plenty of 7.62. Excerpted:
_________________________ Their system of ethics, which regards treachery and violence as virtues rather than vices, has produced a code of honour so strange and inconsistent, that it is incomprehensible to a logical mind. -Winston Churchill, writing of the Pashtun | |||
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| The Main Thing Is Not To Get Excited |
My wife has been to refugee camps in Congo and Uganda several times. The tales she reluctantly tells would raise the hair and on any normal American and make Torquemada smile. Black mambas in the shelters, witch doctors running things, animals carrying off children while mama sleeps, machetes, tribes inside the compounds facing off, rape parties by UN peacekeepers, Joseph Kone and the Lord's Republican Army heading their way causing a pell mell evacuation, RTFN. And all of this during what Africa calls stable times. _______________________ | |||
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| Don't burn the day away |
In the news today, http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...at-kenyan-ranch.html Kuki Gallmann, the Italian-born conservationist and author, is being treated for a gunshot wound at a Nairobi hospital after being attacked by herders at her ranch in Kenya. Gallmann, 73, known for her bestselling book "I Dreamed of Africa," which became a movie by the same name starring Kim Basinger, was patrolling the property when she was shot in the stomach by herders who invaded her ranch in search of pasture to save their animals from drought, local police chief Ezekiel Chepkowny told the Associated Press. Her driver also survived the attack and drove her to the airport in Laikipia, where she was airlifted to the capital, Nairobi, for further treatment, Chepkowny said. Richard Constant, the deputy chairman of the Laikipia Farmers Association, said suspicion falls on herders from the Pokot community who have invaded Gallmann's ranch several times. Lodges belonging to Gallmann were burned by the herders last month. This East African nation is facing a drought that has affected half the country and has been declared a national disaster. Herders and large-scale farmers in parts of Kenya's Rift Valley have been desperately waiting for seasonal rains that were to start last month to ease the drought and conflicts over grazing land in which more than 30 people have died. Kenya's military and police have been working to disarm and drive the hundreds of herders and their animals out of ranches they've invaded, but their actions appear to have escalated the violence. The Laikipia Farmers Association says when the military and police drive herders from one ranch they move into another. The association's deputy chairman has accused politicians campaigning for the August elections of inciting the herders to invade the ranches, saying the owners' leases have come to an end and that herders can take over the land and distribute it among themselves. "The LFA is conscious that a small handful of inciters are driving this violence and that they have deployed militias to cause mayhem in parts of Laikipia. For months these criminals have been rampaging around with their illegal weapons, destroying lives and livelihood," Laikipia Farmers Association chairman Martin Evans said. The land invasions started late last year. British national and ranch owner Tristan Voorspuy was killed last month when he went to inspect damage done by the herders on one of his lodges. Opposition leader and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga said ranch owners deserve protection under the law like all Kenyans. "Unfortunately, we have watched in bewilderment as hooligans take advantage of the drought to subject these ranchers to unwarranted attacks," Odinga said. "Even more depressing is the apparent helplessness of the government that is clearly unable or unwilling to bring these attacks to a stop." Many of the ranches, some of which double as wildlife conservancies, were acquired during the period of British colonial rule, some as early as 1900, according to a government report. Others were purchased after Kenya became independent in 1963. The Associated Press contributed to this report. | |||
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| Waiting for Hachiko |
[/QUOTE] Not a thread drift, but I view many other countries in the same manner. A local couple, neighbors,and friends went to Haiti a few years ago to help after the natural disaster. A lot of people went and helped. My neighbors should have stayed in the USA and contributed to natural disasters here, IMHO. 美しい犬 | |||
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Thermonuclear Vulcan |
I seem to remember the same thing happening in Rhodesia when I was a much younger man. 60's-'70's. Maybe before. I recall seeing photographs of White Farmers whose homes were surrounded by tall Barbed Wire fences and extreme lighting. Dogs ran between the fences and nearly everyone was armed against Machete wielding MauMau or Zulu.. I know it happened before it was Zimbabwe, maybe someone can flesh out the correct time frame. Zebulon | |||
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