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The history of South Africa is Unchangeble

My partner and I had a discussion today about how patriotic the Americans are.  Too be totally honest, I envy them.  I then started to think about things that we can be patriotic about.  I live in Pretoria and therefor I immediately started to think about the Voortrekker Monument.  This is truly an amazing building.

Then I started to think about time that has come and gone and how young our country really are.  I started looking at some sites about this magnificent Monument and read about what it stands for.

I found an article that really made me wonder how anyone can publish such a load of rubbish about the history of our country.  Finally I came to the part where the author's name was mentioned and...  ALAS!!!  The answer to this question came to mind...   It is one of the poor sods of either FAR-LEFT or FAR-RIGHT wing dingbats that still try to clamp on things that happened in the times of my great-grand parents.

Come on people.  Isn't it just about time to recover from all the crap that our fore-fathers dropped in our heads.  Isn't it just about time to move on...

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Published Feb 18 2005, 01:58 PM by deonvs
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P'd Off said:

'hated symbol of Afrikaner power should suffer a slow, agonising death-by-dismantling, brick by brick, all the pieces thereafter to be thrown into the sea, or into the nearest bottomless lake' - Somehow that screams racism to me....

Jealousy makes you nasty hey? Don't know about any large buildings constructed by non-Afrikaners during the last few centuries...
February 18, 2005 2:21 PM
 

Mongo-Matty said:

The only racism the author pointed out was his own.

Changing city, street and shopping center names is f*@@ stupid and costs US billions. That's ALL OF US.

There isn't too much hope in this attitute changing though.
February 18, 2005 5:48 PM

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