Documents - It's Great to be a Souf Efrikan (South African)
This is a great country because:
- You can eat half dried meat and not be considered disgusting.
- Nothing is your fault, you can blame it all on apartheid.
- You get to buy a new car every 3 months and the insurance company even pays for it.
- You can experience kak service in eleven official languages.
- Where else can you get oranges with 45% alcohol content at rugby matches?
- It's the only country in the world where striking workers show how angry they are by dancing.
- You're considered clumsy if you cannot use a cell phone (without car kit), change CDs, drink a beer, put on make-up, read the newspaper and smoke, all at the same time while driving a car at 160 kph in a 60 kph zone.
- Great accent. (!!!)
- If you live in Johannesburg, you get to brag about living in the most dangerous city in the world.
- Burglar bars become a feature, and a great selling point for your house.
- You can decorate your garden walls with barbed wire.
- The tow-trucks are the first on the scene for most major crimes, without being called. The police you have to call about three times.
- Votes have to be recounted until the right party wins.
- Illegal immigrants leave the country because the crime rate is too high.
- The police ask you if they must follow up on the burglary you've just reported.
- When a murderer gets a 6 month sentence and a pirate TV viewer 2 years.
- The prisoners strike and get to vote in elections!
- The police stations have panic buttons to call armed response when they are burgled.
- Police cars are fitted with immobilisers and gearlocks.
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