[MinorityRepublican]

On April 27, 1994, a long line of people line up towards a polling station in the black township of Soweto outside of Johannesburg in the nation's first all-race elections. Tomorrow, when South Africans celebrate 'National Freedom Day,' they will take stock of what 17 years of freedom have gotten them.

[School of Rational Thought]

Today’s South Africa is generally more prosperous, as the end of sanctions and the expansion of South African businesses into Africa and abroad has tripled the South African economy from a $111 billion in 1990 to $354 billion in 2010, according to the International Monetary Fund. Some white South Africans may look fondly upon the “good old days” before the arrival of black majority rule, but the truth is that South Africa’s white apartheid government was stone-cold broke when it handed over power to the African National Congress in 1994.

This has nothing to do with the inherit nature of the population, but to do with cutting off doing business with S. Africa.

[BwanaNdege]

“For many South Africans, those promises have been honored. Drive into some of South Africa’s larger and more established townships, such as Alexandra and Soweto, and you’ll see proper paved roads, newly remodeled middle-class homes, condominium complexes, and even shopping malls.”

In 1980 Soweto had a VW-Audi dealership far nicer than any car dealership in Nairobi.

Soweto had lots of “middle class” housing. The average home in Soweto was nicer than the place we rented in Nairobi.

Soweto residents said that the traffic jam from all of the folks driving out of Soweto (on smooth, wide paved streets) on the way to work in Johannesburg every morning was a mess. Too many cars.

90% of Soweto residents had electricity. All had either refrigerators or iceboxes. Soweto had its own ice plant. Nairobi did not.

During the day in Jo’burg whites, Africans, Asians & “colored” all worked together, shopped together and dined together. It was like being in Atlanta, only more modern.

Apartheid needed to go. But the things I’ve just mentioned are things I either saw personally or were told to me by the African residents of Soweto with whom we were visiting.

Oh, and Mrs BN was astounded to see a line of people. Lines (”queues”) in Kenya were almost non-existent. When she asked what it was for, our hosts said, “Oh, that’s the old age pensioners getting their monthly checks.”

[Regulator]

before the arrival of black majority rule

Amazing. So in Africa, a race is expected to rule since it's the majority.

In America, this is considered racist and evil, and so minorities are routinely put into positions of power (such as the Presidency) to rule over the racial majority.

So MR...can you answer me why South Africa (and all other African nations) are run as racist tyrannocracies?

[mkboyce]

Wait...aren’t we supposed to call ‘black’ South Africans...’African-Americans’?!?

[mkboyce]

Wait...aren’t we supposed to call ‘black’ South Africans...’African-Americans’?!?