What impression do you have of South Africa?

Question

I think they are an innovatice nation. Here is a list of all the things that would not exist without South Africa's existence

*Heart transplants
*Beluga Heights
*RG-31 Anti Mine Personnel Carriers (Used by the US Military)
*A Darter missiles
*PBMR Reactor
*SAB Miller
*Datatec
*80% of the world's gold
*Ubuntu operating system
*United Nations
*Investec
*Seether
*Charlize Theron
*Neil Blomkamp
*Tesla Motors
*PayPal
*FIFA World Cup 2010
*Steve Nash
*Luca Bellisomo
*Sid James
*Sasol (the world's largest oil from coal production company)

Answer 1

D.G., even without your list, I think of these: Ms. Theron, heart transplants, Cape of Good Hope, and the Boer Wars I've seen represented in movies, such as "Breaker Morant." Oh, and also Nelson Mandela and apartheid.

Answer 2

Everything you have listed is the product of the white european minority ( no they didnt invent the gold they did the mining industry and the technology needed to extract it). Since the latter are emigrating in huge numbers it wont be long before the africans reduce it to a bankrupt slum as in Rhodesia/ zimboobwe.

Answer 3

you have realy placed some fat on the hearth, enable me inform you, I even have left SA an prolonged time in the past, no longer through fact i wanted, yet through my artwork, numerous the those that answer your question talk with the aid of there backside as i do no longer have confidence they the place ever in SA to experience what a wonderfull place that's, confident it have its issues, however the responce you get is from those that don't be attentive to SA, the human beings in uncomplicated terms hear the undesirable, and in no way the wonderfull. What come to my recommendations, is a deep sorrow that I ought to artwork in a foreing u . s . and not be waiting to connect interior the goodness of the land.

Answer 4

well i know that johannesberg was rated the most dangerous cities in the world. I've met some really nice south african people but i don't think i'd ever go there because its so dangerous

Answer 5

I used to regard SA with high opinion. As with the rest of Africa it's now in decline, soon to be reduced to begging bowl status, I just wish some of the subscribers would open their eyes to who achieved these feats before blowing off their goddamned delusional and blinkered thoughts!

Answer 6

You seem to have missed out the important ones like

Apartheid

Crime

Civil unrest

Squalid townships

Low educational standards

Inequality for non whites

Hiv

These are the main things the rest of the world associate with SA

Answer 7

Lets see. They killed off most of there farmers because they were white,

now they are having a terrible food shortage. Doesn't that kind of undo

everything else?

Answer 8

Regrettably, one hospital in SA recently employed a Cleaner, who was black, over several qualified surgeons, who were white.

No doubt after the Cleaner's first operation, they may have had a change of policy!

Answer 9

Whats your point?



We could do without all that stuff anyway.



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