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Old 21st Nov 2007, 22:23
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It maybe a little off-topic...or maybe not. I'm not south african...but spent a great deal of my flying career there,...and love it immensly.
To those who are quick to smack down aparthied...you must remember that the modern, liberal, democratic state that (with all it's problems as well) would have NEVER evolved if not for aparthied.
As brutal as it was..it allowed the development of an infrastructure that would of NEVER been in place had it not been minority rule.
RSA would of been no better than Congo, Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Cameroun, etc etc etc....
Sorry....just the way it is....but now that the old regime is over....lets hope the New South Africa doesn't go down the road of 'creeping Zimbabwism'

All right Okes...grab a mitt of biltong and let 'er fly!
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