South African president meets Trump

I heard it was a doozy of a meeting. @Jaapie I think you're a Saffer. How'd it go?

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philn said..
I heard it was a doozy of a meeting. @Jaapie I think you're a Saffer. How'd it go?

I've yet to watch it. Not a genuine Saffer. Lived there from 66-79.

Always knew it was going to get bumpy which was why I chose to leave. Mixed feelings about it. Like a lot of colonial countries when they get independence they're not prepared for it.

The Nationalist government in the Republic has a lot to answer for.

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Carantoc said..
Should Trump will be the first President in over 100 years to get his head on Mt Rushmore ?

Sure, but what are you planning to do with the body?

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myscreenname said..
Has anyone else watched the Surfer with Nicholas Cage, filmed in beautiful Yalingup?

I enjoyed it, but I went into it with extremely low expectations.

My very low expectations forbid me from watching it.

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Japie said..
I've yet to watch it. Not a genuine Saffer. Lived there from 66-79.

Always knew it was going to get bumpy which was why I chose to leave. Mixed feelings about it. Like a lot of colonial countries when they get independence they're not prepared for it.

The Nationalist government in the Republic has a lot to answer for.

I think this is a banned topic. And here you are, yet again, spreading un-founded assumptions and misinformation, against the norm about our wonderful brothers and sisters in the peace loving nation of Sth Africa.

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myscreenname said..
the peace loving

I KNEW IT!!! MY SCREEN NAME IS PEACE N LOVE

Dearest (or is it dopey) Donald has once again demonstrated to the entire world his complete lack of diplomacy and decency. The contradictions and blatant lack of honesty are just mind boggling.

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myscreenname said..

Japie said..
I've yet to watch it. Not a genuine Saffer. Lived there from 66-79.

Always knew it was going to get bumpy which was why I chose to leave. Mixed feelings about it. Like a lot of colonial countries when they get independence they're not prepared for it.

The Nationalist government in the Republic has a lot to answer for.

I think this is a banned topic. And here you are, yet again, spreading un-founded assumptions and misinformation, against the norm about our wonderful brothers and sisters in the peace loving nation of Sth Africa.

Sorry

Well hasn't it turned out predictably
Trump attempts to Ambush another person I would consider a good leader and he proves that he is completely unaware of the truth

Matamela Cyril Ramaposa showed DJT how to be a true States man

You would have thought Trump would have shown him more respect considering That Ramaposa has achieved everything Trump claims to be
Ramaposa is a self made Billionaire at least in Rand terms. He has a 30 year master MacDonalds Franchise for South Africa that alone I thought that Trump would love

I'm not South African but lived there through my teens and twenties.
South Africa is a very complicate place with many issues and problems
Crime is such a big problems and wether that could be blamed on the ANC is debatable

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Tequila ! said..
WA and Australia in general are home to the biggest diaspora of South Africans leaving a place w huge problems.
Even from some actually black and indu origin that I know in person who left there confirm the whites are been a special target for more than decade and half.
You guys are a complete f joke.

There's always two sides to every story.
As an eleven year old immigrant to SA from Tanzania I couldn't help but notice the disparity. My old man was a district commissioner in the colonial gubmint in Tanzania. Whilst there was little fraternising there was also no segregation. We lived next door to Africans at one stage and after independence the old man had an African boss.

South Africa was all about segregation and it was in your face. One on the laments in my home town Grahamstown was that visitors had to drive through the Location ( black area) to get to the town. It was a hideous eyesore. I recall making a crass comment to the old man about how the Africans stank. His reply was that we probably would as well were there only one tap at the end of every street.

Another memory was the reaction of the audience at the local cinema to the scene in The Cross and The Switchblade. At the end of the movie when the bible overcame hostilities in gang warfare in New York the leader of the Latinos kissed the leader of the negro gang, a woman, on the cheek.

The whole audience in unison, bleated " Ag Sies" the equivalent of Yuk. White audience of course. Left no one confused as to the sentiment. And this was by far a largely English speaking town.

Ironic that five years later a small group of school leavers were bust screwing some of the very attractive coloured usherettes! One of the national paper headlines read City of Saints Saints no more!

Reminds me of the joke commonly told of why Afrikaners speak out of the side of their mouths. As the maid knocks off for the night he says to her, out of the side of his mouth, " Wait for me in the garage!"

To expect a vast population to forget nearly half a century of subjugation and poverty is a big ask.

Which is why I left. It never was going to end well!