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by declandewet 4608 days ago
I am in no way a proponent of racist culture, no matter who propagated this ad, it is still wrong and it is still gaining traction among the uneducated. Fake or not, it is becoming a factor in the decision process.

This country needs to change. Here we are, almost twenty years down the line from stopping our racist ways, and yet we've arrived at this.

The current government needs to get it's head out of it's ass and stop spending what little tax money we have on their big fat mansions.

I was born in 1993, so I am by no means an expert on Apartheid, nor do I have any experience with it - but after twenty years, surely you'd think things would have changed?

I visited Cape Town before and after the DA. After the DA got hold of it, it feels like an entirely separate country. No potholes from Kimberly to Cape Town. There are street cleaning machines. Free wifi in so many places. Accommodation is cheap now (a 10 bedroom 7 bathroom apartment prefurbished with water + electricty for R3500 a month. in Camps Bay was on sale). In my entire stay there I encountered 0 homeless people. And young people, especially white people, are opening businesses there, and creating jobs - despite Black Economic Empowerment.

And then we have the ANC...