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Tequila ! said..
WA and Australia in general are home to the biggest diaspora of South Africans leaving a place w huge problems.
Even from some actually black and indu origin that I know in person who left there confirm the whites are been a special target for more than decade and half.
You guys are a complete f joke.
There's always two sides to every story.
As an eleven year old immigrant to SA from Tanzania I couldn't help but notice the disparity. My old man was a district commissioner in the colonial gubmint in Tanzania. Whilst there was little fraternising there was also no segregation. We lived next door to Africans at one stage and after independence the old man had an African boss.
South Africa was all about segregation and it was in your face. One on the laments in my home town Grahamstown was that visitors had to drive through the Location ( black area) to get to the town. It was a hideous eyesore. I recall making a crass comment to the old man about how the Africans stank. His reply was that we probably would as well were there only one tap at the end of every street.
Another memory was the reaction of the audience at the local cinema to the scene in The Cross and The Switchblade. At the end of the movie when the bible overcame hostilities in gang warfare in New York the leader of the Latinos kissed the leader of the negro gang, a woman, on the cheek.
The whole audience in unison, bleated " Ag Sies" the equivalent of Yuk. White audience of course. Left no one confused as to the sentiment. And this was by far a largely English speaking town.
Ironic that five years later a small group of school leavers were bust screwing some of the very attractive coloured usherettes! One of the national paper headlines read City of Saints Saints no more!
Reminds me of the joke commonly told of why Afrikaners speak out of the side of their mouths. As the maid knocks off for the night he says to her, out of the side of his mouth, " Wait for me in the garage!"
To expect a vast population to forget nearly half a century of subjugation and poverty is a big ask.
Which is why I left. It never was going to end well!