Racial Harmony, in SA ? not for ages yet I am afraid... the solutions to the current issues lie in the wombs of the current teens I think. It will take that long for the masses to see clearly and start to seriously vote without feeling beholden to a nostalgic perspective.

What the state of the nation will be by that time is certainly worrying though.

All races in SA need to really start to rethink their methods of identifying themselves.
I also believe they should stop using the mandated declarations of race on documents and simple state themselves as South Africans.

Unfortunately any way of discussing this on a forums has a way of devolving so thats all I'll say on this for now.

Food for thought.

There exists a country with a ruling indigenous party.

A country that has struggled with communism, corruption and cronyism.

They struggled with insurgent and guerrilla warfare for many years.

There is a significant wealth gap between the haves and have nots.

It includes amongst five major ethnicities amongst its population and numerous different cultures within those ethnicities.

Although ruled by an “indigenous” ethnicity the true indigenous people who were there at least 40,000 years earlier have suffered incredible repression and have been historically side lined since independence.

There are nine traditional Kings that have a say on traditional affairs.

There are two main languages that most people commonly speak but there are around 11 other languages spoken day to day basis.

The country was ruled by colonial powers until 1946 had numerous race riots in the first twenty to twenty five years of independence.

This country has grown by 5.5 – 6% per annum over the last 50 years, is a major industrial, technological and maritime player in its region.

These days children, irrespective of whether they are educated in English or their ethnic language tend to be trilingual.

These days racial disharmony an hate crimes are all but unknown, street crime is uncommon and people just plain get on with life.

The country is Malaysia. The similarities between South Africa and Malaysia are multitudinous. If they can do it so can South Africa.

the one thing that unites us is our love of punting. there is hope. punani is always a shade of pink.

le roux,but then Malaysia never had a president that sings "bring my machine gun" in Parliament and keeps on spreading the story that all whites "stole the land" because I can promise everyone that neither myself or my family stole our farm, we bought the farm and it cost alot of our sweat to get where we are.

For us all to live in harmony in SA? Let's see...
Most of us just want to get on with our lives, and for me it doesn't matter if my neighbors are Black, White, Asian, of mixed descent, or whatever. What does matter is there is a sizeable loud minority whose noise drowns out any attempt at having a rational debate on the issues we face. Stifling political correctness and kneejerk reactions do not help either. There's a big difference between calling a certain racegroup monkeys (unacceptable labelling), and calling for another racegroup's Holocaust (beyond the pale hatemongering). As individuals, we need to listen to the other person's viewpoint without being judgmental and the same goes for the other person. Individual people's bigotry only reinforces negative stereotypes we can do without. It also doesn't help if individuals of what whatever background feed those stereotypes through their actions. Positive change comes from within.

Not to put malysia down I been there twice ten years apart. The way the tamil people are treated there is worse than racisim they mocked,teased dealt with violently even a t times killed if they in the way of the majority. No country is perfect and for me sa people and our country are just the best ,yes we do have a lot of problems but we need individuals to implement solutions and contribute their bit so ask yourself what have I our what have I done to make the country best it can be. I think I'm doing my bit by my small contrubitions ask and I shall tell.

A quote from the Dalai Lama sumtin like this, 'When will we look past our physical differences and realise that at the end of the day we are all just HUMAN BEINGS'

And in other news making headlines today

Sav..... slashes punting prices to keep down inflation .
Movers and shakers say such a move will be great for the economy and might bring down the rate of erection. . Eh inflation

We might get there, or at least half way there when:
1) We have a competent president who can actually read write and count.
2) when all blame for the present crisis is not apportioned to apartheid.
3) when the sheeple actually realize they are being misled by their king, and they can actually change their vote.
4) when education and competence is put before politics and greed.
5) when the sense of entitlement is dead.
6) when realizing that SA can be a first world country by virtue of its location, natural resources and diversity.

I became much less racist after sleeping with black women. I started to "get" their point of view a little better. For the sake of national unity I think we should diversify our sex partners...