| Q. | South Africa? | Related Search:
South Africa | | | Hi,
I am planning a trip to South Africa. We have a set budget of 4000 euro to include flights, got a great quote from a travel agent to include accommodation, car hire and 2 nights safari. Got a higher quote from another company so sent them the first one I got and she said all the places the first company is sending us arent great! Any one know of Fountains Hotel (she said the hotel is grand but far away) and the Kariega Game Reserve (said its not the whole safari experience as the animals are fenced in)????? Quite worried about booking the trip now! Does anyone know a good company in Ireland??
Fountains Hotel is in Capetown, we will be staying there for 3 nights, then doing the Garden Route and then going to the Eastern Cape for 2 nights safari! Meant to be staying in Kariega but not so sure now!
| | A. | London.Oval has got it wrong. The Fountains Hotel is in the middle of the city centre, on Adderley Street opposite the fountains and station. However, no way is it within walking distance of the V&A Waterfront because once you get to the end of Adderley Street there is a huge junction (3 lanes of traffic in 4 directions and hardly any pavement. However, the hotel does have a courtesy bus (extra charge) and taxi's are fairly cheap. The hotel itself is lovely, very comfortable and very new I(opened last year). Members of my family stayed there November 2006 and taxied to the Waterfront.
As for the game parks, they are all fenced to a certain extent to protect the local population. No responsible country would allow wild animals to wander around unfenced. Even the Kruger National Park has fences. So Go for it - South Africa is a wonderful country and as long as you are aware of the personal security rules (drive with windows up, doors locked, do not wear flashy jewellry and wear a money belt, do NOT walk anywhere at night) you will have a wonderful holiday. I wish I could come with you in your suitcase!! | | | |
| Q. | south africa? | Related Search:
South Africa | | | i need to know information on south africa, can someone help me ?
| | A. | WHAT U SHOULD KNOW: Lovely beaches, lovely weather, cool and hot people, party animals, great sportmen and women, 9 provinces(states),11 official languages. Many different cultures, friendly people
WHAT U DONT WANNA KNOW: Our president is a D**KHEADED FOOL, crime, reversed rasicm, a sleeping government and a circus in parliament and more crime | | | |
| Q. | South africa? | Related Search:
South Africa | | | What do you think about south africa and the people?
| | A. | I live here in Joburg and I love this country! The people are friendly and the place is great! I would love to live here my whole life! :) | | | |
| Q. | Is South Africa socially and economically better, worse, or the same after Apartheid? | Related Search:
South Africa | | | After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, and since blacks have ruled the government; is South Africa better, worse, or the same?
Explain.
| | A. | Lets talk economics. Economically South Africa has measurably suffered great losses- however, this was bound to happen. One cannot compare the country south africa is now, with apartheid south africa, there is no longer a huge population indentured by poverty and their situation to produce- this economic downturn is bound to happen whilst South Africa migrates from an agrarian virtually slave-based labour force to more automated systems of labour. I believe it is a matter of growing pains, with the alleviation of slavery and massive social reform, comes decades of unrest and the surfacing of hatreds both modern and ancient.
Though this is unfortunate, it is an inevitability, whilst apartheid, economically speaking, worked, so did slavery in america- and whilst its abolition has created its own set of problems, they are better problems to have, in my opinion then the moral dilemmna, and the downright evil nature that apartheid presented itself with.
Afrikaans who reminisce about the good old days don't have any concept of compassion (or find compassion incidental when compared to greed) for those who are not of their colour- they proved it under apartheid by the shocking conditions they forced onto the South African people and continue to prove it with their comments now. Unfortunately, it is this attitude that is largely responsible for the hatred of the newly freed blacks of south africa.
Voting me down? I'd love a logical refutation with that please- but something tells me all you are capable of is a racist diatribe.
*edit*
To answer the the post below, i never labelled all south afrikaans as racist- what i said was that those who reminisce about the old days are willfully forgetting that the apartheid era meant so many horrors for so many people. You must forgive me, but i think that you are mistaking me for generalising when i was pointing out trends. I take it for granted that people understand that when one talks about for example, an undercurrent of socialism in australia- that doesn't mean for a second that all australians are socialist, just like when one talks of an undercurrent of hatred in south africa, this doesn't mean that all south africans are full of hate, i thought this elementary knowledge so didn't state it previously. My apologies.
As i read your post i was very pleased to see such keen mind at work with an eye for solutions. There is hate, i have worked with south Afrikaans, i have heard them speak, older mates then myself lived over there as whites for some period under Apartheid- also, reading the above comments, how can you not see that hatred is fresh and prominent still in your country? This state of denial in an otherwise obviously very thoughtful individual puzzles me. | | | |
| Q. | How is South Africa a 1st world country, extremely civilized, and the rest of Africa is not? | Related Search:
Other - Society & Culture | | | Even the 2 countries that are basically INSIDE of South Africa - Lesotho and Swaziland - are uncivilized.
South Africa also has equal rights for LGBT, which is a huge step, while the rest of Africa basically bans homosexuality and many countries use the death penalty against homosexuals.
How did South Africa seemingly rapidly industrialize compared to the rest of Africa?
There's not even any "civilized" countries ANYWHERE around them.
| | A. | Well cape town was the first colony the British had in Africa, and it worked hard to keep it and develop it as it was a key port town. So Britain poured a lot of effort into stabilising it and industrialising it, and formed a country that could look after itself, so when it declared independence it could stand on it's own two feet, whereas other African colony's asked for independence when they had only just started with government, and therfore encountered corruption amongst other problems.
Since the 1950's, South Africa has been able to capatalise on it's huge diamond mine resources to provide huge industrialisation.
Lesotho and Swaziland are basically the lands granted to tribes of South Africa, but are civilised; they have good morals, were opposed to apartheid, and have strong foriegn relations.
South Africa only got equal rights after apartheid, the seperation of Whites and Blacks for a very long time, till Mandela sorted it out, and since then they've been all for eqality so not to cause another form of apartheid.
Surrounding countries are civilised and were stable, but their governments scewed them over, for example Mugabe destroyed the farming sector in Zimbabwe, driving them to ruin. 10 years ago they were doing fine. | | | |
| Q. | What do you expect to see in south africa during the FIFA 2010 world cup? | Related Search:
Polls & Surveys | | | What do you expect to see in south africa during the FIFA 2010 world cup?
Just a curious South African. I just want to know the general view of South Africa from an outside perspective.
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| Q. | Does South Africa have a law whereby your jail-time is revoked after a certain time on the run? | Related Search:
Law Enforcement & Police | | | If you are sentenced to jail for (thumbsucking) attempted murder in south africa, can you go on the run and have your sentence dissolved after a certain number of years, such as Ohio's law whereby if you avoid capture for seven years, after that time you are free, granted you had no misdemeanours in that time? It's urgent, but completely hypothetical!!! Thanks!
| | A. | I'm from South Africa, and i'll tell you how it is. It is untrue that your sentence will be revoked. It doesn't matter how long you're a fugitive. However, due to the corruption, maladministration and incompotence in South Africa's Justice system, many criminals walk free and are never captured or convicted.
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