And the violence is so much less now than it got in the 1990's. Really sad, Joburg used to have quite a good vibe and buzz to it, now it is just another decaying third world dump. Those of us who did not flee the country, fled from the cities down to the coast where there was a semblance of law and order remaining.
I think the new government is realising that the post apartheid "freedom" feeding frenzy has to be curtailed, and order restored if there is any long term hope for the economy. The pessimists are saying just another 20 years until we turn into another Zimbabwe.
Cape Town still quite a neat place however - hope you got down there.
Cheers,
Mike
Million whites leave SA - study
24/09/2006 16:37
By: Peet van Aardt
Johannesburg - One million white South Africans - almost a fifth - have left the country in the past ten years. This figure was released last week in a report from the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR).
Frans Cronjé, who compiled the report, said it was especially crime and affirmative action which had driven a fifth of South Africa's white population out of the country. He did an analysis of Statistics South Africa's Household Surveys between 1995 and 2005, emigration figures and other reliable estimates on population numbers.
Cronjé said the results left himself and his colleagues dumbfounded. "When we drew the graphs we saw that almost a whole generation of white South Africans are not here anymore."
Me and mine have been thrown on the trash heap of history - maybe deservedly, but it sure is a big sore point in my life.
Mike
