Only In South Africa

Just saw this news item on the BBC website about how the South African police minister was quoted saying:

“If you don’t have a car, ride a bicycle or a donkey,”

in response to police who said they don’t have transport to investigate crimes.

And South Africa is hosting the 2010 World Cup…

This entry was posted on Monday, August 28th, 2006 at 4:46 pm and is filed under South Africa. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

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On August 29, 2006 at 7:46 am piers wrote:

I fought for South Africa in a war. Born and bred South African I have left and live in England. I cannot bear seeing what is happening to my mother land. My roots have become a laughing stock and I have found the need to realign myself in todays world.

On August 29, 2006 at 5:04 pm Neil wrote:

I understand where you are coming from - up til now I have refrained from writing about how messed up things are becoming, but after reading the article on the BBC website I had to let others (even if just a few) know about what it happening to a beautiful land.

Thanks for posting.

On December 6, 2007 at 6:31 pm Liz Jamieson wrote:

Yes - but what was happening before wasn’t particularly beautiful either.

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