Yes, it's really WONDERFUL here in Cape Town and South Africa.

Only last week the DOCTORS were on STRIKE.
The week before the SABC was on Strike.
The week before that the taxi's were on STRIKE.

It just keeps getting better and better.

In beautiful affluent areas like Hout Bay, squatter camps have sprung up like mushrooms. The rivers and ground water is full of human excrement and litter.

The Cape Flats now has gang wars. Street kids run around the downtown financial district of Cape Town after dark begging for money and looking for scraps to eat.

But as the previous thread mentions, it's ALL JUST PEACHY.

Farmers getting murdered....why it's just the WHITE press with an agenda.
Rampant crime and crumbling infrastructure......NOT TRUE....it's BETTER here than a first world country ?????
Educated people (black and white) immigrating in DROVES....it's just nonsense,.....no-one is leaving because the mountain is too beautiful for words.
My little girl goes to a kindergarden and every week it's a new rash she's got from playing with the other kids of dubious upbringing.
But as a dad if I complain about this then I'm a racist.

I want South Africa to work, I really do,...but from where I'm sitting it's just not happening. I see a failing medical system, good education becoming a pipe dream especially in the public schools, rampant corruption in the legal system, unbelievable rudeness and arrogance towards minorities and other African immigrants, and a weak Rand where the average Joe is living paycheck to paycheck just to stay above water.

All those bikes, and boats and SUV's the other poster saw,...she must have been dreaming about her days back in the old USA,.....because like I said, everyone I know (Black and white) is battling here in Sunny South Africa.

I wish it wasn't so.