Comments by "" (@orboakin8074) on "South Africa Is a Scary Place | feat. Peter Whittle" video.

  1. Stuff like this makes me so grateful I am a Nigerian. Unlike SA, we didn't have any massive preexisting infrastructure or wealth built by whites. So we actually had to work hard as hell to improve and we also kept many things the British left us like capitalism, democracy, and federalism because we actually know what works. My country has many issues and load shedding too but we are far better than South Africa in many more ways and future prospects. Our electric grid, though flawed, is undergoing rapid modernisation and we never let our politicians rest on it. Our national unity is better. Our economy is larger (we literally outpaced SA as the largest economy in Africa). Our industrialization is increasing, not declining. Our political system, though flawed, is not as crippled and corrupt as South Africa and our politicians don't use the excuse of "apartheid" race to secure power. Plus, we are not known as a haven for xenophobic killings and murders. Good luck to South Africa
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  2.  @jonnyOysters  yeah, we have an islamic insecurity problem. Sadly, this is due to some homegrown insurgency but mainly the more unstable Muslim countries that border us. Thankfully, our military has been boosted over the last 8 years the issues have being addressed more frequently. still more work to be done.
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  3.  @jazztheglass6139  you are right on these and believe me, we are working on all of them. One thing about us is that we actually know how important it is for us to fix our country.
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  4.  @johnisaacfelipe6357  thanks friend. One thing we owe our relative stability and progress to is the fact that the British were the ones who colonized us. Since they tended to leave social and economic frameworks in former colonies, it meant we had to use things like capitalism, democracy, and a national language of English to form some semblance of national identity. It has not always being perfect but it has been better for us to maintain what we got from them and we see that it works.
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