Nelson Mandela Dead

[TrueBlue]

Ooo! Get you.

Your opinion based on.....?

Research and a general love for political history

 

[Uncle Leo]

Look the dirty terrorist **** is dead now let's all be happy

Did you not see your hero John Major admit that the Tory party were wrong over Mandela?

And I guess what ever party you follow you always agree with 110% of the time???

My opinion not john ******* majors

Prat

Ooo! Get you.

Your opinion based on.....?

Simmer down please...

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Even you? That country is ****ed.

:winking:

Ha! Many a true word ....and all that.:winking:

More seriously though, it was obvious back in '96, that there was still widespread economic apartheid in SA.

Apparently, not much has changed since then.

Which would have been one reason (along with corruption charges) that President Zuma was booed by most of the crowd yesterday.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Ha! Many a true word ....and all that.:winking:

More seriously though, it was obvious back in '96, that there was still widespread economic apartheid in SA.

Apparently, not much has changed since then.

Which would have been one reason (along with corruption charges) that President Zuma was booed by most of the crowd yesterday.

When I was in Cape Town in 2010, the ethnic mix in restaurants was striking. Almost without exception, managers/owners were white and bar staff/waiters were black. They've still a way to go.

(That said, my firm, a FTSE 250, can hardly speak. Our senior management are exclusively white, middle class and male. Which would bode well for me were I not quite so lazy.)

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

When I was in Cape Town in 2010, the ethnic mix in restaurants was striking. Almost without exception, managers/owners were white and bar staff/waiters were black. They've still a way to go.

(That said, my firm, a FTSE 250, can hardly speak. Our senior management are exclusively white, middle class and male. Which would bode well for me were I not quite so lazy.)

The extremes of wealth in Jo'burg between areas like (amost exclusively white) Sandton and (black) Soweto has to be seen to be believed.

Granted Durban appeared to be a lot more racially mixed, with a lot of Asians involved in commerce.There are some nasty (pretty exclusively) black settlements just outside the town though,which is also (I believe ) a feature of Cape Town too.

Pretoria was almost exclusively middle class and white (in the centre at least).

 

[londonblue]

Pretoria was almost exclusively middle class and white8in the centre at least.

Wow, they're big!

 

[Shrimpers are Magic]

Ha! Many a true word ....and all that.:winking:

More seriously though, it was obvious back in '96, that there was still widespread economic apartheid in SA.

Apparently, not much has changed since then.

Which would have been one reason (along with corruption charges) that President Zuma was booed by most of the crowd yesterday.

quite right he is very unpopular at this time. don't think he was helped much by the policies of his crack pot predecessor Mbeki.