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  1. The trouble with democracy is no matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. More seriously, I reckon UKIP will make some surprising inroads at the next election
  2. shakari

    Mandela died

    Sorry. It was your silly comments about foreign aid & the MP etc that showed you didn't know what you were talking about but either way, enjoy your retirement. LOL! What you actually said was: Thats interesting revisionism with regard to europe and wwwII. Ever heard of the marshall plan. Perhaps you should check out the expenditure and then revise up for the 21st century.
  3. shakari

    Mandela died

    Dr D, I don't care who you are or what you do for a living.........If you knew anything at all about what you were talking about, you wouldn't (for example), have made the utterly ridiculous comment about Botswana not having much corruption etc. I don't pretend to know everything about Africa but I do know more about it than most here & am certain I know a lot more about it than you do.
  4. shakari

    Mandela died

    Dr D It's perfectly true & that's why so much foreign aid money disappears up it's own ****. Having spent more than 3 decades doing business and working there, I've been hustled for bribes by everyone from ministers to game scouts and have taken great pleasure in telling them to voetsak. LOL Trust me, I know what I'm talking about and without meaning to cause offence (though I probably will), you don't. .
  5. shakari

    Mandela died

    Don't mean to be hostile at all. 1) I didn't call anyone ridiculous. I called the comparison ridiculous because it is. 2) Neither did I but see directly above. 3) I didn't say nothing, I said less and more. However, although they did get aid from the US by way of the MP, they did also have to pay war reparations before the MP came along. (+/- 3 years between the end of the war and the beginning of the MP) Believe me, the truth is the Africans couldn't organise a one car funeral procession and there's not one of 'em (the politicians) that isn't as flaky as a nine bob note...... not even the much lauded Mr Mandela who (for example) died with an estate worth millions and you can bet your life he didn't make that money by saving it up from his prison pay and a few judicious investments!
  6. More or less retired now but simply adored my job....... not always so keen on some individual clients though.
  7. shakari

    Mandela died

    Ridiculous comparison. The MP ran for about 4 years and was from the USA to Europe. African countries have been in receipt of foreign aid from umpteen different countries and even more NGOs for decades and have obviously copped many times more....... One of the main differences is that whilst most of the MP monies more or less got to where it should be, the VAST majority of foreign aid to Africa goes straight into the Swiss and other private bank accounts of Ministers and others in positions of power and a good percentage of what's left is usually misused entirely....... and I'll be very happy to give you practical examples of that as well if you wish!
  8. shakari

    Mandela died

    Love him or hate him, it was a helluva good thing he was there at the handover of power because it wouldn't have been half as peaceful as it was without him. The sad thing is his Rainbow Nation that he made so many sacrifices to create is now dead and buried and the ***** who came after him have squandered his sacrifices entirely and when Madman Malema becomes President as he surely will one day, he's going to destroy the country entirely so God help everyone, especially the whites when that sad day comes.
  9. A bottle A book A DVD A fishing rod A flying lesson or other activity
  10. I haven't had the opportunity to make any for years but have recently found 4 gallons of the local white lightning in my cellar.& as we don't have sloes here, I'm using coffee beans & fruit to make several variations on the theme & I'll be using coffee filters for the job when the time comes.
  11. Can't you use filter coffee filters?
  12. shakari

    Mandela died

    Amazing how many ***** there are in the world!
  13. shakari

    Mandela died

    One of those bombs came close to nailing me in the 80s........ I was at the (IIRC) Rand Show in Jo'burg with a couple of friends. We sat down & had something to eat, put our rubbish in a nearby (2 or 3 yards away) rubbish bin, walked away, turned a corner & a bomb that must have been in the same bin, exploded! Maybe that's one of the reasons I'm a bit cynical about the 'freedom fighters'. LOL
  14. Assuming you have phone banking you can do it that way & FWIW, my bank does it at no charge & within 3 banking days. As has been said, Paypal is another good option & pretty much immediate.
  15. shakari

    Mandela died

    Propaganda mate. The Govt is nothing more than a dressed up dictatorship where the current President is the son of the former one & it's economy is artificially maintained by it's minerals, notably copper & some gold which is now running out, hence the attempt to clear the hunting areas so the frackers etc could go in. - Take a look at that DM link I posted about Nigeria & consider similar pollution in areas such as the Delta & think what it'd do to the wildlife there. Low unemployment? Whoever claims that is a liar. Most locals outside the main towns & many in them are unemployed & because the country has one of the highest if not the highest incidences of AIDS most of these people are unemployable........ If it were as good as claimed, why do so many illegally cross to RSA to search for work? Better than some? Sure they are but no better than most. Another thing that needs addressing is the racist issue. Not just in Botswana but all African countries. Take a look at the entry/residency requirements for a white person compared to a black person & they're always entirely different. Believe me, just because a Govt or a few websites claim something about Africa, it ain't necessarily true.
  16. shakari

    Mandela died

    From my friend's FB page: Here are some excellent comments on the motives behind the hunting ban in Botswana by Dr. Clay Wilson, a respected veterinary surgeon and an honorary warden at Chobe National Park. ~ Alan Unbelievable turn of events by Minister of Wildlife TK Khama brother to the president of Botswana. I personally know this man and I would trust a snake oil salesman before I would him and he had no knowledge of whatsoever of how to manage the country's wildlife. I have screamed it 1000 times, trying to make people aware that Botswana had HALF of the entire population of wild elephants in the world. They are in this mans and his brothers hands. In November it was perceived as great news that Botswana was going to ban trophy hunting. everyone was n the bandwagon congratulating Botswana for its excellent commitment to saving its wildlife and its outstanding knowledge and management in this field. A fact is that I worked with DWNP for 5 years and their management is extremely poor and unorganized, the wardens have no passion for the job and that's what it is for most of them, just a salary. They don't even have money to buy a spotlight to carry on their vehicles that are mostly run down in any case. I can summarize this point in that in the 30 years I have been visiting Chobe not once have I ever seen a park warden patrolling in the park. Once they collect your money at the gate there is never a presence. Case closed. Back to hunting by which by the way I am totally neutral on as there are so many cons and pros. When the ban was discussed I read between the lines and had inside information as to what was really happening. They were to stop hunting to remove the "eyes" from the remote areas so the Government can go in there in January and kill 70 to 80 thousand elephants for their own profit. Of course after that has happened then I predicted that they would start hunting back again. No one seemed to care or understand what I have been trying to expose. Of course there has been countless discussions and arguments about this decision which I will not delve into as its well documented. Of course the Botswana government has no problem with unnecessarily slaughtering its cattle as an excuse to fight foot and Mouth did disease that has been around for millennia ( something fishy there), they have no problem alienating their own people the Bushmen of the Kalahari as their land had diamonds and now they are using an extreme method of harvesting natural gas called Fracking, no one complains that the president builds his own airstrip and palatial country house getting land appropriated illegally and that they can deport or just simply murder someone if they have a different opinion . The list can go on. Botswana is rapidly turning into a police state. It sickens me that the world will just stand by and let it happen as it did in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Congo etc., etc., etc. So back to this article on Tshekedi Khama. It appears that they have stepped on their own tail again and he let the cat out of the bag to soon. My main concern is the elephant population which I still believe is going to be slaughtered in January if it has not already done so. How can I stop it? Tshekedi Khama is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Differentiating gunshots from hunters and poaching?? Come on Tshekedi. They will just resort to poisoned arrows, poisoning the water holes and poisoning the carcasses so that all vultures will die so they cannot spot a carcass, never mind all the other animals that will eat of the poached meat that is left to rot and is such a waste. I'm so disgusted I had to vent..
  17. shakari

    Mandela died

    Gimlet is quite right about the Chinese. Try taking a trip to Uganda and travelling to the Karamoja which is on the Sudanese border and one of those areas where the UK Govt recommend be avoided and see how their mining operations are stuffing up an area where Bell used to hunt endless elephants. Look at the pollution and destruction and lack of game and it'll take your breath away. Let me give you another example of the Belgian Congo: They've had more than 50 years and endless foreign aid to get things right and yet can't succeed in putting a single brick on top of another and then look at Germany & Japan who at the end of WWII couldn't feed their own people, had lost a large part of their working population, had to pay endless war reparations and had no foreign aid to help them....... then wind the clock forward 50 years from then and see how successful they had become! If Europe and the USA can achieve these things with less, why can't Africa do it with considerably more?
  18. shakari

    Mandela died

    Aris Is that the same Botswana that banned hunting recently so they could get the people working for the hunting companies out so they could in turn get the fracking companies in so they could prospect for gas and oil in areas they weren't allowed to? http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?aid=4495 Where we can see other examples of what happens with mining operations http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517740/Nigeria-threatens-new-laws-punish-oil-companies-spills-continue-devastate-Niger-Delta-region.html The same Botswana that I've been going in and out of for 30 odd years and have never passed through a border post or stopped by a cop without being asked for a bribe to ease the way? The same Botswana where the game dept are willing to issue a PAC elephant permit for 5 elephants for $50 cash without even setting foot on the area to check the damage? The same Botswana where the President and his family can be bought and sold for anything whatsoever at the drop of a hat? Trust me. I know Africa and Africans very well indeed and nothing but nothing is ever as it first appears or is claimed to be by them. The only reason people believe Botswana doesn't have much corruption is because the Bots Govt claims that's the case.
  19. shakari

    Mandela died

    Maxie, No doubt the Belgian Congo had pretty much the worst white rulers and I'm not excusing that for a moment but they've had independence since 1960, so over half a century to get over the abuses and get their economy, democracy and infrastructure back on track and what's more, they've had endless foreign aid & NGO work & workers to help them do it. Instead, the country has regressed to the current situation where the country is completely rubber ducked AND has been subject to a whole lot of genocide & VERY bloody murders & human rights abuses etc. Now compare that situation to the one the USA was in after 50 years of independence......... and they did it all without a cent of foreign aid or help from a single NGO. It might not be PC to blame Africa and Africans for Africa's woes but the truth is they are entirely to blame. Or put it another way, can you or anyone else name me one single African country that has made a success of independent rule and has a firm, stable democracy and a Govt that is anything like free of corruption etc?
  20. shakari

    Mandela died

    I think it's considerably more complicated than that. Sure, Apartheid was wrong but having said that, RSA hasn't made a success of black rule and in fact, the ANC policies are often about reverse apartheid and anti white. Africa, not just South Africa should and could be the most successful continent on the planet. It has endless minerals & precious metals, fantastic tourism potential, a cheap and plentiful labour force but instead it's a basket case that requires constant foreign aid. No matter what African country you name, it was a safer & more successful country under white rule than it is under black rule........ That comment might not be politically correct but it is true.
  21. shakari

    Mandela died

    There was a lot wrong with the old regime but frankly, the new one is FAR worse in every possible way including human rights abuses & to find examples of that just do a search on phrases such as SA genocide etc, SA 6 week old baby raped or SA 4 year old sodomised in street. What's more, there's not a single African country that has made a success of black rule. Africa should & could be the most successful continent on the planet. It has endless minerals, precious metals & stones, a large & cheap workforce & lots of areas where a spanner would almost grow if planted the right way up but instead, it's a basket case of crime & corruption that has to be bailed out to the tune of billions. Not millions, but billions every year. I love Africa but the problem with it is that it's wasted on the Africans!
  22. shakari

    Mandela died

    I spent a large part of my life in Africa and anyone who thinks Mandela was a saint or anything close to it is a fool. He was the first head of the MK and there is no doubt he had blood on hands but that said, the handover of power would have been a lot bloodier without him. Love him or hate him, he made a lot of significant sacrifices for his beliefs and the saddest thing is that those sacrifices were all for nothing because those came after him squandered those sacrifices completely. Mandela's Rainbow Nation has been dead and buried for years and in it's place is a sewer of crime, corruption, murder and genocide and it's going to get a whole lot worse when Madman Malema & his Economic Freedom ****ups take power as he surely will one day..... and when that happens, God help SA, especially the whites in SA because he's going to make Mugabe look like a saint. As to when Mandela really died...... that's a very good but irrelevant point. Most of the black tribes of southern Africa have a belief that when someone dies but can't be buried on tribal lands, they can take a piece of buffalo thorn (ziziphus mucronata) and lay it on the body of the grave of the departed and the soul is transferred into the branch or twig and that can then be taken to the tribal lands/family plot and buried in place of the actual body and the Mandela family gathering some months ago looked suspiciously like that's what was going on. Whatever the real situation is, I wish the country and it's peoples a peaceful time in the next days, weeks, months and years.
  23. Bearing in mind it appears to be an incendiary round you might like to handle it carefully & dispose of it correctly.
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