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My grandfather died at a hospital in South Africa in 1997 after experiencing chest pain. Apparently, he went to reception, and they told him and my uncle to take a lift/elevator up…

$100 a month for a South African is not a trivial amount. Definitely putting his money where his mouth is.

I don't know how pretending to read literature in later grades helped with reading, especially when the reading scores referenced in that article are assessed years before students…

I read every book that was assigned to us, until grade 12, when we got something called "July's People" by Nadine Gordimer. Nobel Prize winner or not, she used literary techniques …

It sounds like a universal experience in high school is students not reading assigned literature. In South Africa many of my now middle-aged HS friends, most of whom subsequently g…

Same in South Africa...."mutton" usually refers to lamb. almost no one has a "lamb curry" or "lamb bunny" (Google it). It's "mutton curry" or a "mutton bunny".

My good friend from South Africa tells me how she and her husband miss cooking with mutton, which they find more flavorful and satisfying than lamb. What happens to the mutton-aged…

The Afrikaans version may be comprehensible to a Dutch speaker, but the Dutch version, even the version you posted, is still very hard for this (second-language) Afrikaans reader t…

It's interesting that the page says that Afrikaans was derived from Dutch in the 20th century, but the two languages are so different. Dutch: Ik kan glas eten. Het doet geen pijn. …

Himba bushmen It's rare to see an error in the opening sentence of an article, and maybe a nitpick but I believe "bushmen" usually refers to San hunter-gatherer nomads, not Bantu l…

I can recall many, many years ago (20+), reading an article about the future of telephones. The article proposed that many developing nations would never install landlines with ful…

Mao’s reforms led to millions of deaths. China grew after the 70s. But in any case, thanks for clarifying your conception of “discomfort”.

India and China have both managed to uplift their economies in the last 30 years without the “discomfort” of violent crime, increasing corruption, the collapse of state institution…

What makes you think I’m white? In any case, apart from many Afrikaners, whites are increasingly irrelevant to the discussion about South Africa’s future-they’re dwindling as a per…

South Africa is a deteriorating shithole. My mother was telling me that they want to move to guarded security estate because she is afraid she might be raped, and my father bludgeo…

If you look at that author’s articles on South Africa; they seem to echo right-wing Afrikaner talking-points. It doesn’t mean it’s all wrong, but important to recognise the limitat…

Blacks are the people who would suffer the worst from this attitude, since whites tend to be richer and able to buy their way out of trouble (generators, solar, batteries, private …

Corruption, an incompetent civil service stuffed with political appointees, terrible education system, open borders (sorry, but it's a fact....you can't have huge unemployment and …

I think whites are going to be increasingly irrelevant in South Africa, and apart from the poor, the old, and ideologically motivated Afrikaners, I suspect that they are going to c…

Zuma may have acted like a shower could prevent AIDS, but he also oversaw the rollout of anti-retroviral drugs that pushed life expectancy up. In fact, that was one of the reasons …

The article makes it clear that the miners are mostly illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries. The country has reasonably strong labour laws, but employers, who never really…

And this: https://www.tralac.org/news/article/6931-surge-in-botswana-s...

It's a tiny country (population 2.3 million, vs South Africa's 60 million), mono-ethnic, rich in diamonds, strong culture of law and order. South Africa also props Botswana up via …