Re: [OT] In depth look at South Africa

On May 28, 2025 at 8:46:38 PM PDT, "anim8rfsk" <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:

Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

 anim8rfsk@cox.net wrote:

 Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

 Rhino wrote:

 

 The Rubin Report, hosted by Dave Rubin, has a video where Rubin
 interviews Rob Hersov, a prominent South African businessman,
 billionaire, and activist about all of the things wrong with South
 Africa and how it is headed towards catastrophe. Hersov praises Trump
 for what he did in the meeting with Cyril Ramphosa, the South African
 president and makes suggestions for carrots and sticks that Trump could
 use to get South Africa back on a better track from the incompetent,
 racist kleptocracy it has become since 2008.
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCVENj_vyjM [49 minutes]

 
 Someone's gotta say it, but South Africa was better under apartheid.

 
 It gave us Charlize Therone and Elon Musk.

 
 They're not old enough to remember apartheid!
 

 
She have been about 20 and he’d have been about 25 when they set up the new
system.

A 20-year-old (pre-Sean Penn spoliation) Charlize Theron?

Mmmmmmm...