“Many South Africans are leaving the country.”
“South Africa is experiencing a brain-drain, as many (especially white) professionals are leaving the country.”
“Many South Africans are living abroad nowadays.”
“Crime is driving South Africans out of their own country.”
“If Zuma becomes president, I am leaving South Africa.”
Above are just some of the comments I have to live with every day. Be it personal remarks made to me, or the message being spread by the biased media inside and outside our country. Yes, I know it’s a reality that some South Africans are leaving, but I still ask, “So what?”
There will always be people leaving their homeland. It’s been so since the dawn of time, and it will continue probably till the end of times. The grass will always be greener on the other side of the fence.
If I believe the media, and some “political commentators”, people leaving South Africa have valid points, which I am extremely hesitant to dispute. My question is, “why are so many of them coming back?”
Patagonia was once called the “Boer haven”, as to some extent, so is Australia and New Zealand. But I read an article recently which states that many white South Africans who have moved to Patagonia, come back within three months.
I am not trying to interrogate their motives or say that they are wrong to come back, or to have moved in the first place. But I would like to understand why people, who consciously decided to leave South Africa, decide to come back to this crime-infested, corruption prone, white-bashing, xenophobic, Mugabe-loving, down-the-drain economy country.
Why would intelligent people, who thought initially that their situation would improve exponentially, come back to a country where people have no regard for the human rights of others, where police are scared of the criminals, where criminals are rewarded for terrorising law-abiding citizens, where tax monies are spent on lavish lifestyles of an elite few, where human rights violating heads of state (African) are revered, and the honest law-makers (Western) defiled, where a potential future president is declared guilty of rape and corruption before his actual trial, and where general chaos are the order of the day?
Can someone please explain to this simpleton in a simple language he can understand? Please?
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