[SPLIT] A Question for South Africans

[RoyBatty]

I have heard a theory on this--to the effect that, in modern multicultural western settings, whites "hunker down" and simply stay home far more often than the colonizers. The latter clearly see that they are on the upswing and have a swaggering confidence because of it.

That's right. In South Africa's case the State, Police, Political rulers, the Media, Business etc. all now favour the blacks. Effectively reverse-apartheid has become the predominant system. The whites hunker down as you said. The reason being that many have become apathetic / disinterested and disillusioned with the political process. Democracy doesn't work so well when "the will of the people" (40 million blacks) gets pitted against about 4 million or so whites, a few million Cape Coloureds and about 1 million Indians.

Whites in SA hunker down because they have nowhere to go, aren't in a position to do or change much and many are not yet at the point where "they have nothing left to lose". People with their backs against the wall fight. Those who still have something left won't risk it so they play "wait and see".

[Hors]

There is a TV series on German TV (channel VOX, "Goodbye Deutschland") about Germans emigrating from Germany... well, many head for South Africa... a really significant percentage... to open hotels, cafes, shops etc. Maybe it's not that bad down there?

[RoyBatty]

I wouldn't say it's terminally bad, sure. It certainly was a much better place to live in until the late 1980's. (Same thing with Russia). Things are just gradually becoming more and more "3d world" so for me as someone who used to think of it as a 1st world country (which it was at the time) it's a bit strange to witness the transition.

There are many Germans in the Western Cape for example in suburbs like Somerset West, Constantia and so on. There's a German school in the city center. Many Namibian Germans (the old Sud West) have connections with Cape Town.

From what I hear there are quite a few Russians living there now as well as ex Yugoslavs from mostly Croatia and Serbia.

[Lulletje Rozewater]

I wouldn't say it's terminally bad, sure. It certainly was a much better place to live in until the late 1980's. (Same thing with Russia). Things are just gradually becoming more and more "3d world" so for me as someone who used to think of it as a 1st world country (which it was at the time) it's a bit strange to witness the transition.

There are many Germans in the Western Cape for example in suburbs like Somerset West, Constantia and so on. There's a German school in the city center. Many Namibian Germans (the old Sud West) have connections with Cape Town.

From what I hear there are quite a few Russians living there now as well as ex Yugoslavs from mostly Croatia and Serbia.

And Greek-Portuguese-Italians-Dutch(me Dutch,me Chief of Magau tribe)-Israelis(lots of them are mafia)-Pakis-Indian-a few Afrikaners/English
Lebanese(Christian and Muslim).
Why the Namibian Germans came here is a ?????,I am trying to get to Swakopmund and out of SA