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  3 February 2005

The plague of the money launderers prompted government to unveil the all new South African notes. Added protection all over the place with watermarks and changing colours. Whoopi! Take a look at these and tell me what's wrong with it -


Look again. Anything? Okay, for those that forgot that the Afrikaner is (by now) a natural inhabitant of this country, where's the Afrikaans? Remember the previous note that had "Suid Afrikaanse Reserwe Bank" printed at the bottom of the front part of the note?

Is this a blatant effort from "our" black government to tell us "up yours"? Is the Afrikaans speaking inhabitants a dying breed? Isn't it important enough to appear on any of "our" money? Will they drop Afrikaans as one of the 11 "official" languages next? Did a couple of "platkop" so-called professionals come up with this design and was it deliberate?

Now I'm not one for speculation and conspiracy theories, but this takes the cake. I'm offended. I'm on the verge of feeling totally hopeless and would probably take to taking up arms and starting a one-man revolution.

But I'll tell what will happen. Once the initial disgust and anger wears out, I will, like so many others (who're probably just as upset as what I am) accept that Africa belongs to those curly headed people who claim to have been on the southern tip of Africa long before the Koi-Sahn or the Dutch / Portuguese settlers.

I have come to a point in my life where I'm just too tired to fight anymore. Accept I cannot. These guys are screwing this country into the ground. Mbeki stood up and said (after his re-election as president) that any ANC member being found guilty of stealing from "the people" will be kicked out of the ANC. Tony Yengeni, Winnie Mandela, Alan Boepsak (sorry, Boesak) and another 20 odd MECs involved in the "travelgate" scam are still all sitting pretty in their mansions with their shiny luxury cars in the driveway.

I received an e-mail from the guy who runs TomG Reports shortly after I started by "internet revolt". He said that South Africa will go the same way as the rest of Africa, it will just take a bit longer due to the infrastructure left behind by the Afrikaner. At the time I felt the same. Then I went through a very positive stage. Now I'm back where I started. A valid question he posed "Its interesting to know the truth and why the whites there seem to have gone along with the destruction of the country and haven't left."

You cannot fart against thunder Tom. Simple as that. Most of us cannot afford to get out of here, some see opportunity to make money out of the chaos, some are just too tired. When you read stories like these, you're shocked. Initially. But over time you become sanitised. It becomes part of life in South Africa. And it's WRONG!

Bill (the friend who visited from the States) sent me some information on the Homecoming Revolution. Some scary statistics. For every 10 000 qualified people leaving this country, only 4 000 come back in. And that rate will drop.

The only thing this country still has going for it is it's climate. Slowly but surely the whites in this country are becoming ruder, less considerate and fighting for their own survival.

The tsunami disaster did not even stop our government from cashing in. All funds collected had to be be channeled through government before reaching the intended recipients. Skimming the cream off the top first?


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