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Subject: Re: [OT] Documentary on South African farm murders
Date: Wed, 28 May 2025 04:30:45 -0400
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Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-05-25 12:01 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>> Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

>>> The weird thing is that the documentaries I've seen indicate that South
>>> Africa was actually working quite well in the 10 or 15 years after
>>> apartheid ended;
>> 
>> Maybe it was better than today, but I wouldn't say it with quite so much
>> praise. A friend went there on a railway engineering project. Foreign
>> visitors were routinely targeted by thieves and there was plenty of
>> concern about violent crime. When he was actually working with the
>> railroad or engineering staffers on the project, everything was fine,
>> but he still had to get to and from his hotel. The master contractor
>> ended up stiffing him on much of his consulting fee and expenses.
>> 
>> No. It was not a good place to do business unless your company was a
>> huge international engineering firm whose fees were routinely paid by
>> wire transfer. My friend was a freelancer.
> 
>I don't know; I've never been there. Maybe it was already fairly dire 
>under Mandela and Mbeke.

Mandela made tire necklaces popular.

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