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by buyx 9y ago
I was just highlighting the downside of dollar vans. Without firm regulation they can easily lend themselves to lawless and violent anarchy.
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by buyx 9y ago
Dollar vans/share taxis also lead to situations like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxi_wars_in_South_Africa unless they are well regulated.
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by buyx 9y ago
It could be for instance that if people stop reporting crime, that either the crimes are not occurring or that people's faith in the government to provide effective policing is undermined. The murder rate is used as a proxy for the o
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by buyx 9y ago
The AIDS epidemic started under the apartheid regime (not directly their fault of course),and was the reason for the drop in life expectancy. It is also moving up again with the provision of ARVs. Furthermore, infant mortality is dropping.
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by buyx 9y ago
It should be noted that the isolation of apartheid South Africa became almost unbearable on an individual level, and it touched the lives of everyone in the country. No international sport (important in white South African culture), no cult
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by buyx 9y ago
That’s what I meant. It was viewed as an ally against communism by the Reagan/Bush and Thatcher governments. With the collapse of communism, there was no reason for them to continue to support the apartheid regime.
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by buyx 9y ago
The new rulers are far less effective than the Apartheid government Are they really? Access to water, sanitation, electricity and housing are far better than they were under apartheid. The AIDS epidemic which started in the last years of
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by buyx 9y ago
I never thought this argument rang true. Many countries with great mineral wealth are quite poor and dysfunctional, and many with little such resources are wealthy and successful anyways Agreed. I was replying to a point about South Afric
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by buyx 9y ago
The white government and people made the country much richer than it’s surrounding black governed countries I think you’ll find that South Africa’s enormous mineral wealth did much of that. And until the 1960’s or later, the surrounding c
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by buyx 9y ago
There is a fine line between collaboration and dialogue. In South Africa, there were a significant percentage of oppressed people who tried to get along with the (white supremecist) apartheid government. They participated in the sham electi
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by buyx 9y ago
It's important for Westerners to realize that the Chinese never had a Locke, or a Rousseau, or a Hobbes. The foundational political philosophy taken for granted in the West has no parallel in China. Their political philosophy is groun
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by buyx 9y ago
As others have pointed out, solutions that work in Amsterdam, may not generalise to other parts of the world. Over the last 15 years, a combination of power cuts, shoddy maintenance and cable theft have made traffic lights a lot less reliab
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by buyx 9y ago
English is not immune to these sorts of variations. In South African English "now": sometime maybe/immediately. This is hard to decipher. "now-now": very soon/immediately (this usage seems less common nowadays)
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by buyx 9y ago
PR firms seem to do a lot more than foreign lobbying and propaganda, and seem to be engaged in active manipulation of clients' populations. In South Africa, UK PR firm Bell Pottinger was engaged by the Gupta family to promote their (wi
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by buyx 9y ago
These attacks have been going on for at least a decade in South Africa. The fact that it's still going on, and if the coverage is to be believed, spreading globally, is a pretty shocking indictment of the industry. I wonder what other
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by buyx 9y ago
people in africa probably have some place they outsource to, maybe china or something Companies in South Africa outsource to India quite often. Africa is huge, and hard to generalise about.
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by buyx 9y ago
This issue seems to occur all over the world where you have fixed terms in politics and politicians who lack the guts to do what is right because they only need to do enough to get re-elected and long term plans are off the table I though
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by buyx 9y ago
How would you explain the integration of Khoisan click consonants in Bantu languages if foul play was involved?
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by buyx 9y ago
How do you know it was violent? We don't know for sure about a genocide, but we do know that the distinctive click consonants in some of the bigger South African Bantu languages were borrowed from Khoisan languages. If there was a geno
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by buyx 9y ago
Afrikaans isn't the "main language" of South Africa. It is 1 of 11 official languages, 9 of which are Bantu languages. Until 1994, it was one of two official languages (along with English). I've also never seen it referr
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by buyx 9y ago
One of the more pernicious myths that continues to sustain ideological racism in South Africa (and its more vile outposts on the internet) is the terra nullius equivalent: that whites and Bantu-speaking blacks arrived in South Africa at t
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by buyx 9y ago
I don't know why previous administrations showed no interest in this - did they not understand what was happening or were their capitalist values comfortable in allowing it ? I don't think it was capitalist values that led to wa
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by buyx 10y ago
There have been serious incidents involving Uber in a South Africa, including a rape and robbery, by an Uber driver. http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/two-held-for-brutal-a...
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by buyx 10y ago
The article doesn't mention which developing country the trial will be in, but South Africa would make an interesting candidate. It has a public healthcare system that's in shocking condition, and a world-class private healthcare
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by buyx 10y ago
Since they had rolling expiry of messages, based on what I've seen, a couple of years of forum posts for less popular movies, and a few months worth for more popular ones.
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by buyx 10y ago
IMDB introduced message boards in 2001, and it was pretty mature by then. http://www.polygon.com/2017/2/3/14501650/imdb-message-boards...
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by buyx 10y ago
IMDB's been expiring messages all along, so there isn't much there to backup. After reading this announcment, I wanted to save the fanboy comments for Cloverfield (2008) back from when it was first released, since I regard it as a
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by buyx 10y ago
I've posted about this in other places on this thread, but after feeling the same way as you, I looked at some old movies, and found that most posts are fairly recent. It turns out that IMDB has been expiring posts all along. Your argu
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by buyx 10y ago
That was my reaction as well, but it turns out that most movies don't have messages going back very far. This was by design, it seems: http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boardswhydeleted
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by buyx 10y ago
They were implementing a rolling expiry of posts already, so the battle for posterity has probably already been lost (unless IMDB itself has historic records that it will release): http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?boa

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