If there's one thing that makes my blood boil it's fellow South Africans (and people I'm supposed to know and love) who cling to outdated and outmoded ways of thinking
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Die Rooi Gevaar? There's a bloody Commmunist Threat? in 2009? The verkrampte idiots in Orania are living in what year? 1950? Comrade Stalin is still alive is he?
But my real question is what is/what are Klippies?
Klipdrift brandewyn (brandy). An old, staid Afrikaner favourite.
Some of the oldies still harp on about the communist threat although they're nearly all dead by now. They can't get it into their skulls that capitalism is just as screwed.
Must be pretty rough brandy if the have to add Coke. I like my brandy straight. But then I even try aguardiente straight; even some popskull made by an old gentleman who was sweet on my mother.
What I've read about Orania makes me wonder about the overall common sense of the people who live there.
Orania makes you wonder about the "common sense" of the fools who instigated apartheid. The Afrikaner race, in the more stupid cases, is reluctant to let go of the "glorious" past. I can say that. I'm Afrikaner but I've seen that change is necessary as it is inevitable.
Pity you can't find a time machine and go back and tell that to Daniel Malan and Hendrik Verwoerd. A lot of pain and suffering might have been averted.
I'd have thought, in common with your fellow Afrikaans-speaking white South Africans who want to reject the National Party-dominated past, you'd call yourself Afrikaanse rather than Afrikaner.
I had opportunity to meet some of the De Klerks on my gran's side. Little cousin to FW and unfortunately I had a chance to vent some spleen. In their arrogance I don't think the boyz would see reason. After all, a woman in their paradigm belongs in the kitchen.
But my real question is what is/what are Klippies?
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Some of the oldies still harp on about the communist threat although they're nearly all dead by now. They can't get it into their skulls that capitalism is just as screwed.
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What I've read about Orania makes me wonder about the overall common sense of the people who live there.
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I'd have thought, in common with your fellow Afrikaans-speaking white South Africans who want to reject the National Party-dominated past, you'd call yourself Afrikaanse rather than Afrikaner.
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