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20 Years Ago Today I Was Part Of An Incredible Moment In History!!
2014 Apr 25, 11:57pm 1,321 views 5 comments
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RWSGFY
2014 Apr 26, 2:35am
I was invited to vote in the election despite the fact that I was not a citizen of South Africa
So the election was rigged. Nice.
FuckTheMainstreamMedia
2014 Apr 26, 5:14pm
Yay! Because the blacks have totally fucked over South Africa. Not as bad as Mugambe did in Uganda, but bad enough.
Lord help you if you are one of the remaining white people who are too poor to immigrate to Australia.
I'd love to see our media suddenly flip and stop being hypocritical liberal cause pushers, but then I guess "white men gang raped by closeted homo black men in South Africa at a rate of 10/minute" isn't exactly what people wanna hear while eating dinner during the evening news.
Yay! Because the blacks have totally fucked over South Africa. Not as bad as Mugambe did in Uganda, but bad enough.
All of africa is fucked. The closest to a country you would want to live in is Botswana. The couiple countries I've visited had great people, but the colonists left such a mess that it will be another century for things to settle out.
Tenpoundbass
2014 Apr 27, 12:52am
It's a damn shame they don't have Oil on the scale of Iraq.
Or we'd all be proud of our soldiers for shooting this African Warlord, and that African Warlord. Why they would almost be worth selling the new and Improved Democra$y(TM) to.
China is going after the oil in Africa.
There are now more than 2,000 Chinese companies and well over a million Chinese citizens in sub-Saharan Africa. They can be encountered in the major cities, in mining centers and oil fields, on plantations and even in the most remote jungle villages. They include managers and military advisers, doctors and agronomists, engineers and importers, itinerant traders, small business owners and contract workers employed on countless construction sites.
My dear friends 20 years ago today it was a sunny and cool morning in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It was also a historical day. The first all-race election was being held. Thanks to the African National Congress, I was invited to vote in the election despite the fact that I was not a citizen of South Africa. A captain in the South African Army came to my door. He told me that he had been instructed to take me to the polls so that I could vote. We rode to the polling place in his 3-series BMW. There were armed soldiers all over the place. But things were mellow and calm. I felt no fear at all. The ballots all had pictures of the candidates because so many people could not read and write. I cast my ballot and was driven back home. In the evening I watched the election returns. Nelson Mandela won. The party afterwards throughout South Africa was incredible! My most unforgettable moment was a television interview that I saw. An African woman was being interviewed. She made the following comment:
"Now we will no longer be treated like children."
I owe a deep debt of gratitude to Nelson Mandela and his right-hand woman Barbara Joyce Masekela for making it possible for me to participate in this incredible moment in history.