Rank: Elder Joined: 7/22/2008 Posts: 2,703
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masukuma wrote:hardwood wrote:obiero wrote:Kusadikika wrote:MugundaMan wrote:hardwood wrote:SA is bad news. Nowadays they follow you from the airport after you land then rob you. I would never wish to go to that godforsaken country. Afadhali dustbowl yangu, sindio?  I was watching M7's 3.5 hour long recent SON address yesterday. I must admit for a dictator, the man is a wily, strategic thinker who can sell snake leather to a snake! He has elaborate yet honest facts, figures and explanations, peppered with interesting stories and humour to the point that he lulls you into almost forgetting opposition members are being tortured and murdered like chicken. The one thing that caught my interest the most is what he said about Uganda. That Ugandans take their country for granted. If he had a choice he would not waste time traveling outside the country, he would shuttle between his country homes and Kampala. In Uganda they do not need air conditioning, air is fresh and life is sweet. In other places like China one needs a/c all the time and there is no real joy there. I agree with him wholly. I once spoke to one chap who was veeeeery excited to be leaving for majuu. When I told him many others are on the way back and never plan to return to those forsaken snowy countries he gave me a look of shocking disbelief as if I had just shut the gates of heaven from him. Very true. The beauty of South Africa that people see in pictures is just that. Beauty only seen from the window of your car or on pictures. In this video we only see the robbery what we don't see is that those people are always prisoners in their house. People do not leave their houses and tembea tembea on foot in their neigbourhood for fear of being mugged. This is bearable for adults but can you imagine it for children. What this often means is that children cannot have an independent existence. You know the way children can have friends wa mtaa, that cannot happen because they always have to be accompanied by their parents wherever they go in the car. Wakirudi nyumbani the gate is locked and they are free in their prison paradise. How sad.. Consequences of the apartheid regime and now millions of youths who were disenfranchised and denied opportunities have become of age and now need to feed their families. The same might happen in kenya when the desperate youths in kibera, kawangware, kangemi, githogoro etc say enough is enough and scale the walls of the mansions in neighbouring lavington, karen, runda etc. looks the same but it's not! inequality is everywhere but it's one thing when it's designed inequality from when it's natural. Kibera, Kawangware e.t.c. are not designed by public policy they just happen and people do escape them and as long as there is a way out - it's fine. many children (not enough) from these neighbourhoods escape them, some of the tenants are transient (wamekuja nairobi juzi). things change. plus some people don't even want to leave these places. The terrible thing about apartheid was that it was designed to keep everyone that way based on a binary attribute -WHITE vs NOT WHITE. again... where have the poor scaled the walls of rich neighborhoods? Why? I don't know for sure but I am reminded of a statement by Voltaire - 'there is no God, but don't tell that to my servant, lest he murder me at night'. I think our saving grace from a revolution based on inequality is something that many people regard as a negative, TRIBALISM. Tribalism is the one thing that maintains our stability even when there are massive inequalities. A Kikuyu man in Mathare actually knows a billionare who lives in Kitisuru because they come from the same village. He has his number and can call him, they ate meat at Kiamaiko together and when the billionare's mother was sick and had to go to hospital the billionare called the guy in Mathare to ask if he could bring her some soup. Ruto still talks to "Kilemendi" and will attend his sons wedding. In places like South Africa or the US these kinds of linkages hakuna kabisa. A rich white guy and a poor black guy have no relationship whatsoever, they each only know their own kind economically and socially.
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