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Elon Musk

As a black person from South Africa, I have little that associates me with Elon Musk. He left the country before I was born & he was not bullied by black people from South Africa. Because apparently, his "bullying" in South Africa is his villian origin story ... it's mentioned ever so frequently in these mini-documentaries I see of him & he claims he had a "bad childhood". I don't care about bullying much because I was bullied myself & just bullied back. I think it's just a strange media storm around him at present & when the dust settles & the world sees who & what he really is, we can make judgements. But there's just something funny about everything around him now but time will expose all, I suppose.  I think the white population of South Africa will care more about Elon Musk & appreciate him more as something they aspire to be like. We have our own Robert Gumede's here in South Africa as ro...

What would a white exodus in South Africa mean?

Alright, in my previous blog I mentioned a white & Indian exodus in South Africa. We already joke about white people leaving South Africa for Australia, England or Canada & finding the going tough then coming back to South Africa but what if they were to go to a country where everything would be comfortable for them & they would forget about South Africa. What would become of South Africa?  Farmers: We're led to believe that the majority of farmers in South Africa are white so that vaccum would have to be filled & frankly, I don't think the current crop of black farmers can fill the void so we may have to buy food from elsewhere in the world so food prices may increase more than they already have.  Skills exit: Some may claim a skills exit in South Africa would leave a vacuum that would be filled by indigenous black professionals & while that may be true, they'll need to obtain the experience that the former non-black people had. No racism: There would ...