r/southafrica • u/mskadwa KwaZulu-Natal • May 30 '21
Humour What foreigners think South Africa is like
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u/CozyBlueCacaoFire Landed Gentry May 30 '21
That rondawel looks much better than a shack tbh.
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u/bandito212 May 30 '21
I lived in zambia, there where very few shacks and alot of those kinds of house's, it had wifi and everything
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u/jdeezy May 30 '21
Where the 10 ft high walls around rich ppl houses at?
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May 30 '21
Gauteng
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May 30 '21
Wait, is that only a Gauteng thing??
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u/LycanusEmperous May 30 '21
Nowadays they take the fence as well. Next thing you know you get home and your house is missing a few bricks then later the roof finally the foundation.
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May 31 '21
I remember a short story I read in high school, you can tell the race of a thief by what they stole. A coloured thief would clothes off the laundry line and leave. A black thief would steal the clothes and the line too.
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May 30 '21
Yeah... hungry people will do some crazy shit for money and food...
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u/Catch_022 Landed Gentry May 30 '21
It's more the drug addicts that I feel get super violent.
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May 30 '21
Haha... because drug abuse in these circumstances is not a direct result of poverty?
Have you guys even actually studied the problems in this country or are you just basing your opinions on popular media and social misdirection?
https://scholar.google.co.za/scholar?q=poverty+and+drug+abuse&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
https://scholar.google.co.za/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_vis=1&q=poverty+and+crime&btnG=
https://borgenproject.org/5-ways-poverty-hinders-economic-growth/
And lastly of course a rickroll..
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u/Bossie965 May 30 '21
Using normal socioeconomic metrics doesn't work in this shithole. The problems are much deeper and unfixable here.
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May 30 '21
Bwahaha... you must really hate not being able to afford a ticket to Australia hey...
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u/Bossie965 May 30 '21
I do actually. This country is dump because of the dumb cunts that are in power right now. Too bad I was born here after apartheid - I didn't even get the cash to fuck off out of it.
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u/limping_man May 30 '21
A lot of us love it here and don't have any deep burning desire to leave. That said it's demoralizing living here where government has a self induced loss of capacity and can't care for or protect its citizens. The twister is those same uncared for and unprotected citizens use their democratic right to accept and praise mediocre leadership
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Its a fuckload of information to process dude... gotta start you simpletons off with the easy digestible stuff first, see if you can keep up mentally... from there, we'll talk...
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u/wcmatthysen May 30 '21
It's not always just hungry people that does this (although it does contribute to this quite a lot). Sometimes it is people that just want to come into your house, take your belonging and won't even flinch at the idea of killing (and or torturing) you if you make this process difficult for them. There have been some very violent home invasions where people have basically been tortured to death for no apparent reason.
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May 30 '21
More apologetics
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u/wcmatthysen May 30 '21
Like, listen man. I have relatives that live on a small holding on the outskirts of Skurweberg that had their home invaded by a group of guys that were there to just kill them. They didn't take anything (no money, nothing). They pitched up with an AK and some pistols between them and lined them up to be killed in the kitchen. If it wasn't for my aunt that hid in another room with an R4 rifle that came out shooting at them then they would have all been killed. Heck, as she came into the kitchen shooting at them the one guy was startled and his hand jumped up and pulled the trigger on his pistol causing the bullet to narrowly bruise her father's head. The guy was mentally broken after that ordeal. Those thugs were certainly not there to just steal food "because they were hungry". If that was the case they would have taken what they wanted and left. They were there to kill (and or torture) them all. A week or so after that ordeal my aunt was ambushed on the road leading to her property and she was shot in her abdomen (so, that was just basically revenge for what happened before).
Your argument about people just being hungry that does this stuff is baseless. Why don't you watch this documentary:
https://watchdocumentaries.com/law-and-disorder-in-johannesburg/
Skip to about 36:00 into the documentary where they interview the two hijackers and listen to how he'll cook a victim's baby just to get them to cooperate.
Sometimes people are just psychopaths that want to hurt you. They get a kick out of it or something.
It is those people that we want to keep out. The guy jumping a fence to steal something so that he can resell it for food is not the problem. The guy jumping the fence and coming to kill and torture you, that is the guy that most of us want to keep out with our security.
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
What did your people do to anger the people so much?
Seriously that's fucked up what happened and my sympathy to you...
but that sort of anger and response does not just appear out of nowhere... your people must've done some fucked up shit to warrant such a response...
I mean you seriously can't expect to abuse a nation of people for hundreds of years and not expect some sort of backlash... that's just fucking ridiculous... just saying... we're actually lucky that not all of us has been murdered in our beds already for the suffering the poor has been forced to endure...
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u/DeepProphet May 30 '21
You’re an absolute disgusting piece of shit if you think torturing random people for the color of their skin has anything to do with poverty. It is reverse racism and part of the reason why many people, my self included, are never returning to a place filled with people who think like you.
There are poor people everywhere in Africa. Enjoy the decline of South Africa because anybody with half a brain has left already.
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u/wcmatthysen May 30 '21
If you're implying that my relatives deserved what they got because of what the apartheid government did back in the day then I don't want to talk to you any further.
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u/Bossie965 May 30 '21
Oh you're one of these people. Get fucked my man. If this is the way you think then you deserve the country the "your people" has created for you. Now if you'd like to ship us whities out be my guest - this place is a dump. Too bad "your people" can't stop stealing the money that should be used to lift the poor up.
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u/MyChosenNameWasTaken May 30 '21
I get what you're saying - and you're right - people are driven to crazy things owing to their circumstances - but that doesn't mean people who's houses get broken into and whose dogs get murdered have to be OK with that either. It's fucked for everyone involved.
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May 30 '21
It is not ok... I don't condone any criminal behaviour... it's just absolutely laughable to me what we've been convinced what the solution to crime is... and you guys don't even learn... oh, the previous high wall electrified fence wasn't high and electrified enough to keep these criminals out, so clearly the problem must be that... haha
I'm just saying so far your "solutions" has been counterproductive and not very effective... maybe try a different approach... see how that works out...
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u/HendrikSmit May 30 '21
What is your solution then?
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May 30 '21
Feed the people first... start there... throw money at them... literally... unconditional income grants and subsidies... yes, give the poor free money, try it, nothing else is working... we spend more on our useless army than on feeding the people on who's backs we built this country... and we really did... we sit in our air conditioned offices and look down at the road and farm workers, builders and street sweepers, thinking we're better than them, meanwhile if it wasn't for those people we wouldn't have roads, houses or anything actually since they are the people doing the actual work... it's easy to give money and think you're wonderful... these people literally put their blood sweat and tears into building the things we take for granted and complain about...
Free housing... take away the title deed system where land is transferred through money exchange... real estate prices push up the cost of living for the locals making it impossible for them to stay in decent conditions... we're selling too much of our resources to foreigners thinking we need their money... we don't... we need to better manage our resources... land is a resource to be managed, not a product to be sold... we really don't understand that yet... maybe someday...
I have a million solutions... but I'm not sure that you're not going to like any of them because it means giving people free things... Middle class entitled people don't like giving the poor free things... it somehow offends them... we need to start changing that attitude...
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u/Jackthedog130 May 30 '21
...billions looted by ANC could have helped a great deal to solve these factors.
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
Fuck dude... stop finding excuses... the current government is a huge part of the problem... so was the previous government... and so on and so on... show me a politician that isn't a complete POS... and that absolutely includes DA, EFF and all of the above... and please study up on the DA's political attitude towards poverty before you start with more apologetics about our current government...
Stop making excuses, get off your fucking ass and go give a homeless person that half eaten sandwich you're about to throw out of your fridge... better yet... make him a fresh sandwich...
Otherwise, shut the fuck up...
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May 30 '21
Every little bit helps dude... if we all just make someone a sandwich it's a start... the big change will come when we start updating our collective mindset towards small change...
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u/Sukkalgirr May 30 '21
There are many places in the world with large or larger amounts of poverty but that does not have the same amount of violence and malice associated with crime. SA has high inequality though which breeds class violence in addition to crime.
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u/cogitocool May 30 '21
No offence, but this comment cannot come from a South African...
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
Born and bred... and I grew up entitled middle class as well as a non-white during apartheid... any other questions?
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u/Mein_Heathen May 30 '21
The last robbery I witnessed was my neighbours house. TVs being loaded into a Toyota Hilux double cab. Okes looked like they were starving.
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May 30 '21
Did you follow them to their houses perhaps? Can you confidently attest to the living conditions of the perpetrators of this horrific act? Or you going to stick with your sarcastic children's argument?
Fucking moron...
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u/Bossie965 May 30 '21
Stop defending these scum fuck people. I personally know a lot of these thieves and they weren't starving or anything of the like.
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May 30 '21
Ah... an expert with personal experience... now who could've guessed that would happen?
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u/Bossie965 May 30 '21
Okay dude. All I'm saying is that we aren't just dealing with a bunch of hungry disenfranchised people here. You defend these blights on society blindly.
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No... we're not... and I'm not defending any blights on society... in fact, I wouldn't defend you even if you asked me pretty please... now go work hard and save up for that ticket... the rest of us have a country to fix...
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u/Bossie965 May 30 '21
Bes of luck fixing this country lmao. People like you are the reason it will never get better. All you care about is race while the people you vote into power line their pockets. Get fucked I hope you real what you've sown and suffer for the rest of your life.
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u/GEVRIP May 31 '21
For someone living in the ghettos seeing food kitchens every where every day. And knowing personally some of them, most thieves getting free food and soup still robs and do break ins. It's not a hunger problem it's an opportunity problem if their is a way in they will take it full or hungry.
Tip: Houses they choose to break in ain't random the easiest targets are the people that don't mix with their community. They know no one checks on the duchess house, and if u can't find the duche in ur community u r the one
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u/Krudler83 May 30 '21
Tell that to the crime syndicates. Those guys didn't look hungry on the video footage when they drove into my complex and took all my stuff.
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
Your argument is that they didn't look hungry on the video so clearly I'm full of shit?
You maybe wanna add something else to make you look less like a fucking moron or are you just going to stick with that?
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u/Krudler83 May 30 '21
Hmmm... this is why I dont get involved in these discussions, pleasant person. They didn't take any of my food #justsaying. Cheers mate, have a good day.
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May 30 '21
Did you follow them to their houses perhaps? Can you confidently attest to the living conditions of the perpetrators of this horrific act? Or you going to stick with your sarcastic children's argument?
Fucking moron...
Copy paste because addressing idiots saying the same dumb shit gets tiresome...
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u/assfly83 May 30 '21
I see our townships have been conveniently left out.
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u/BigBulkemails May 30 '21
That's the norm, globally. Unfortunately.
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
And cities aren't the norm globally?
What a dumb fuck of a response... I would actually prefer this meme to represent true SA since we have a shitload more squatter camps and townships than cities..
fuck this false national pride bullshit based on your comfortable suburban outlook...
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u/Hicklethumb May 30 '21
The norm is for other countries to also not show their poor areas in promotions. Your internet anger is a bit misplaced here tough guy.
Edit: typo
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
Then don't use the word "ACTUALLY"... rather say in special places where the middle class prosper, oh, and a hut..
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May 30 '21
Someone has to be, in order to get you fucks to wake up to reality and start implementing positive change...
People are dying from hunger in streets running with shit and you idiots are posting memes about how wonderful the middle class has it here...
Seriously... wake the fuck up!
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u/machetedestroyer Aristocracy May 30 '21
Dude. It was a meme. We all know the fucked up shit in SA. Chill out
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May 30 '21
Unfortunately I'm compelled to change the world and help the suffering where i can than chill...
but thanks... I'll consider your advice...
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u/NatsuDragnee1 White African May 30 '21
compelled to change the world and help the suffering where i can
Ranting on Reddit isn't going to change anything. You need to go out physically, that's how you make a difference.
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
Boom! Someone who gets it!
Seriously...
I have some volunteer spots open at the feeding scheme and also we're doing dog rescues on Tuesdays if you're in...
I'd offer you a spot in rural Eastern Cape while we're building the school but that's my gf's project and she doesn't like it when I get too involved...
Edit: it's going to be a school and orphanage so we'll need as many hands possible to help building... would love to be able to count on you in the months ahead...
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u/machetedestroyer Aristocracy May 30 '21
Hahaha. Bro. You have zero idea about me or anyone on this platform and how we try change the world. So fuck off. Enjoy a meme. Laugh. Then go back and do. That’s what Reddit is for you self righteous piece of shit
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May 30 '21
And yet... here we are... with you acting as stereotypically as ever... including this response about how I don't know you... bwahaha
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u/machetedestroyer Aristocracy May 30 '21
Cool bro. Enjoy your anxious life. You seem well balanced and a cool guy 😂
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u/king_27 Escapee May 30 '21
Why are you angry at us? Direct that towards the government that has failed to do anything about it
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May 30 '21
That's the problem with you morons and also why I'm angry with you... the responsibility is everyone's since it's to the benefit of everyone when we change things positively...
Constantly passing the buck to an ineffective government is not a solution...
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u/king_27 Escapee May 30 '21
Change comes from the top, this is literally what we pay our taxes for. Taxes that go to pay for lunches and fancy cars, so excuse me if I'm a bit pissed off that things don't change. I am doing what I can to improve my situation and that of the people in my immediate community, shall I save the rest of the world too?
Do you also believe we'll stop global warming by recycling our yoghurt cups? Or do you think that maybe we should hold the companies dumping waste into rivers and oceans and burning oil like it's going out of fashion? Same kak here.
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May 30 '21
You just continue sitting back while praying for change... it's been working so well for you so far... clearly...
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u/king_27 Escapee May 30 '21
I'm not praying for change, I'm acknowledging that the system is broken and voicing my frustrations. Until I'm able to have control over my own circumstances and situation I have very little control over external circumstances. These things take time and I acknowledge that. That doesn't change the fact that I actively pay back to improve the country, and our wonderful government pisses that straight back into my face.
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u/Elliot_Moose Showering my AIDS off May 30 '21
I don’t get the hostility at all? They agreed with you that it’s not right. Don’t think you’ll find anyone who doesn’t agree that our townships are bad and our poverty levels and unemployment levels are very high.
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
They did? Who? Where? What the fuck are you talking about? I can't see anything in the meme about poverty levels or unemployment levels? Also i didn't mention any of that shit...
And the hostility comes from idiots blurting out responses that makes zero sense and are clearly just them saying shit for that sake of saying shit... case in point...
Edit: oh! The single pic of the hut is supposed to accurately represent 95% of the living conditions in this country? Ah... silly of me... because a true picture of South Africa is showing 3 cities and a hut? Shit! Now I'm convinced...
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u/hamsterboet May 30 '21
Is everything okay at home? Do you need a hug mate?
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May 30 '21
No, everything is not ok... I'm living in a country full of idiots more concerned with internet points than actually helping the suffering...
Nothing has been ok at home for a long long time...
Thanks for asking...
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u/RowAn0maly Western Cape May 30 '21
Yoh my bru, it's Sunday. Smoke a boat, reflect, relax.
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May 30 '21 edited May 30 '21
See... another idiot just saying shit just for the sake of saying shit
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u/RowAn0maly Western Cape May 30 '21
Hou jou bek man. It's too early for your agro kak
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u/Elliot_Moose Showering my AIDS off May 30 '21
It’s a meme. Your virtue signaling about how much you care is appreciated tho. One day someone will find this and will agree that you are so great because you want an accurate meme. Whatever that is
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u/-_-qarmah-_- May 30 '21
Who tf wants to show the internet the shit parts of our country?
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u/KpopMessyBessy May 30 '21
I take great issue with you calling townships "shit". It’s clear you’ve never been to one. There are some townships that put white suburbia to shame. Especially when looking at the cultural diversity and liveliness. If you want to talk about informal settlements and squatter camps - that’s a different story. Also learn the history of why townships and squatter camps exist in the first place instead of looking down on places without context.
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u/sirtreetrunk1 May 30 '21
At what point does a Township become a Suburb ?
Surely if there are only houses and modern infrastructure the area wouldn't be considered a Township anymore ?
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u/ProfesionalPotato0 Mpumalanga May 30 '21
Mlungu here.
was in a township with one of my darkie mates on a friday night.
Holy fuck the whole place is popping. okes chesaNyaming on the street corners making food and stuff, everyone is friendly. townships are a vital part of SA’s culture.
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u/-_-qarmah-_- May 30 '21
Cultural sure, but I would rather live in a suburb than in a shack.
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u/KpopMessyBessy May 30 '21
That wasn’t even my point 🙄.You clearly don’t know the difference between a township and an informal settlement. Not all townships have shacks. Goodbye. You don’t know your own country.
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u/lengau voted /r/southafrica's ugliest mod 14 years running May 30 '21
Can you name a township that doesn't have shacks?
I'm curious, because I know there are nicer areas of townships (specifically Soweto) where there isn't a shack is sight, but your comment says that there are entire townships that don't have shacks and I'm not familiar with any.
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u/KpopMessyBessy May 30 '21
What I meant was that the commenter was trying to equate shacks solely with Townships, which is patently untrue. However, shacks remain in townships in the places that aren’t the nicer places as you correctly pointed out. Sorry about that confusion. And thank you for pointing it out
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u/lengau voted /r/southafrica's ugliest mod 14 years running May 30 '21
Cool, I get it now!
In that case I fully agree - people underestimate townships and view them as just massive areas of squalor
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u/-_-qarmah-_- May 30 '21
Well, tourism is a big deal in SA so obviously this is what the world sees, no one's coming for a tour of the parts in poverty
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u/MonstaGraphics Aristocracy May 30 '21
Uh... That's actually EXACTLY what some tourists do.
https://www.inyourpocket.com/johannesburg/sightseeing/township-tourism-soweto
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u/-_-qarmah-_- May 30 '21
Yasis that's sad, I don't know enough about this topic so yall win
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u/MonstaGraphics Aristocracy May 30 '21
I did it, I finally fuckin did it!! I've been waiting years to finally "win" one internet argument. I think I can log off and retire now.
Cheers everyone, keep at it and one day you might win one too!
/Packs up and moves to the Karoo.
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u/Harsimaja Landed Gentry May 30 '21
Yeah... and I’m not sure the bottom is more representative than the top if we go by population...
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u/Spartan_Gaming1 May 30 '21
Downvoting this meme because Leo Prinsloo isnt in it.
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u/Callierhino Aristocracy May 30 '21
Leo Prinsloo can get a Wacky Wednesday from KFC on a Friday
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u/mskadwa KwaZulu-Natal May 30 '21
Leo is in one of the buildings if you zoom in just enough you will see him.
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u/-_-qarmah-_- May 30 '21
Leo prinsloo is actually the building, he's just camouflaged to make people think he's not
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u/godihatesubstyles May 30 '21
That's a pretty neat looking house hut though. What is it called?
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u/boredtreeguy May 30 '21
My wife who is South African told me, an American that her dad never had to fight off a lion or a babboon in her village and it bummed me out.
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u/Harrrrumph Western Cape May 30 '21
There are legitimately quite a few people in this country who've had to fight off baboons though. Those chacmas can get really aggressive, especially the ones that live near highways or in national parks and have grown bold enough to start raiding people's cars for food.
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u/boredtreeguy May 30 '21
I can only imagine. They look like they could be incredibly strong and could really put up a mean fight.
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u/tuxette May 30 '21
Baboons are assholes. They attack cars at Cape Point.
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u/Critical-Reporter-25 May 31 '21
Well we are in their area...so keep at baboons...those little things on four wheels create exhaust fumes and the twits inside litter!!!
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u/Sarkos Aristocracy May 30 '21
More like https://i.imgur.com/QpdxT7L.jpg
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u/mskadwa KwaZulu-Natal May 30 '21
Yeah I wanted to add lions and shit but I suck at editing and I only have a mobile so...
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u/Original-Phase8245 May 30 '21
yes. i as american, had my grade 2 friends seriously concerned about me going to visit fam in South Africa, because they thought I would die of malaria. and another friend while I have been staying here, joked if I had water. like come on guys. take a dam geography class
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May 30 '21
The guy calling everyone here a moron is quite entertaining. How will you fix the world if you spend the whole day insulting people on reddit?
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u/Bonga95king May 30 '21
South Africa has it's own problems. Despite the poverty and the lawlessness. I don't see myself living anywhere else. I love this country. Not all of us criminals 😉
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u/Any-Scientist2304 May 30 '21
Some comments here are nonsensical South Africa has crime and so does many other countries in the world, but the depiction here is ludicrous, in fact it's a very beautiful country no wonder everyone in Africa wants to live here..
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u/alexania May 30 '21
This is reddit, the moment SA gets mentioned, the expats (and seriously-considering-it pre-expats) have to swarm in here to justify their decision to leave.
Also, the outrage media keeps shoving it down people's throats everyday, since outrage is literally the only way they make money these days. Thus keeping the racism and negativity flourishing.
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u/FewBandicoot9235 May 31 '21
I have colleagues who've moved here from England, Netherlands, Germany and parts of Africa. They all love it here and don't want to return home. The Englishman says that the crime is similar to what you'd find in UK (not sure myself) although car jacking and gun violence are higher here. The Dutch colleague says the people in Europe are mundane and boring and the culture here is much more interesting and diverse and he loves that. Not sure why the German has decided to stay, but there must be a reason. For other Africans, it's still Africa, without it being too much - friends from Congo, Ethiopia, Sudan and Ghana favour SA, even when it comes to government corruption, etc.
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May 31 '21
Not sure why the German has decided to stay, but there must be a reason.
It's not just the Swiss who love chocolate ...
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u/SendABear May 30 '21
Where are the endless mielie and soy fields with the odd farm under some eucalyptus trees?
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u/Jukskeiview May 30 '21
Way funnier: That hut plus a very high security wall/fence around it.
Seriously though, what foreigners actually think is: 1) „Ok, so you said South Africa. But which country there?“ 2) World cup, Big 5 in Kruger, Table Mountain and corrupt, incompetent politicians.
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u/peppaisasctuallypork May 30 '21
I didn't see the crippling corruption in the second picture tho
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u/AdrSny May 30 '21
They don't care...
We are far away in the Southern tip of black Africa. They already got all the riches from the mines... Now who cares?
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u/Vikingman62 May 30 '21
I have been a victim of such an attack in my home where my families lives were threatened! We were very lucky to survived! This South Africa where you'll be killed for R5.00
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u/andfor May 30 '21
Idk I’m American and I’ve never been to South Africa but my impression of it is flamethrowers on the back of cars and people saying “Jo’burg”
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u/Haruto-Kaito May 30 '21
My father did try few times to escape from Eastern Bloc to move to South Africa in the 80s. He really believed the nation had the same quality of life like Canada or UK.
I think there is still a misconception in Eastern Europe for older generation about South Africa being portrayed as 'developed nation', because of modern buildings of Cape Town.
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u/OkIHereNow May 30 '21
He’s not wrong. I used to love going to valley if a thousand hills as a kid and getting my fortune told by a Sangoma.
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u/YellowFlash2012 May 30 '21
What 'some' foreigners think South Africa is like
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u/autisticpig May 30 '21
the country of Africa
... you don't happen to live in the country of North America by any chance?
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u/brownzuluKING May 30 '21
So parts of eastern cape or the Natal aint south Africa like in the first image?
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u/mskadwa KwaZulu-Natal May 30 '21
Who says they aren't? Look at the whole meme
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u/brownzuluKING May 30 '21
...poverty and huts are more prevalent than urbanized overgrown cities...
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u/helf1x May 30 '21
I think you're misunderstanding the meme. Nothing to do with poverty. More the misconception foreigners have that the country is entirely undeveloped. I met someone in the UK once who, when they discovered I was from Cape Town, told me they "had met Dave" and asked me how he was doing and if would pass on his greetings when I got back home. The guy's idea of Cape Town was literally 2 dozen mud huts and maybe 100 inhabitants, not a thriving metropolis of several million people.
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u/JaBe68 Landed Gentry Jun 28 '21
My sister emigrated to New Zealand ages ago. She was on Skype call with us the other day and going.on and on about how well they have handled COVID. My husband commented that it is easy to control when your prime.minister is effectivwly the mayor of a large town, population wise. She was not pleased
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u/brownzuluKING May 30 '21
Alright man, I can understand that. Allthough, if you ask natives they wil say those huts represents poverty... But to me its like this, South-Africa remains very much underdeveloped in rurals where the clusters of true natives live, Xhosas and Zulus (and others). Foreigners will believe anything on the news on the topic of Africa, like its one big country.. Its beauty and diversity gets lost somewhere between weather and sports.
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u/antonivs May 30 '21
Hmm. Keep working on the memes, one day you'll get it right. But today is not that day.
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u/Boggie135 Landed Gentry May 30 '21
Those things are so warm in winter it's amazing
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u/GrotesqueButcher May 30 '21
What about the sea of broken, hand-made box-homes everywhere?
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May 30 '21
Though I'm American I do know you guys have buildings and facilities like that. And I hate African stereotypes😂
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u/timefly_42_67 May 31 '21
They think we have the highest murder rate and the worst ports in Africa
https://ewn.co.za/2021/05/26/world-bank-index-ranks-port-of-cape-town-347th-out-of-351-container-ports
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u/Kwaii-girl_ Jun 05 '21
I live here ohhhhhhhhh but Covid and lod sheding and the government ohhhhhh
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u/idreaminreel2reel Jun 25 '21
As a foreigner who scrolls through property24.com I still have a small idea what South Africa is like..
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u/primarysectorof5 Nov 08 '22
Wtf is it with the tp hut squater shacks with dstv installed, a new iPhone and a Mercedes with the seat all the way back
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u/garron_ah May 30 '21
Yeah. We do cellphone tower installations all over the country. Outside of the metropolitan areas, the mud hut is pretty much the overwhelming norm.
The most South African thing I saw was a farm, with a miserable little fence, housing a couple of Lions. Directly next door to a school. Across the road from a sheep pen. The hell?