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You are right. But we live in a bizarre world, where suggesting people to eat LCHF gets you in to trouble. Case in point: Tim Noakes in trouble with Health Professions Council of SA.

White farmers in South Africa?
Been listening to AfriForum again?
Now the POLICE have entirely different numbers
Hmm, Police. Blogs. Police. Blogs.
For myself, I'll go with a reliable source, thank you
So, 74 murders = 130/100,000? Only if there are but 40,000 farmers in SA!!!

You're behind the times, 18th of December 2017, the ANC party rejected his ex-wife as their future president and elected the current deputy president as party leader and future state president. https://www.timeslive.co.za/anc-conference-2017/2017-12-18-cyril-ramaphosa-wins-anc-presidential-race/

Watching the crowd waiting for the results to be announced and seeing Jacob Zuma sitting with a stunned and unhappy look on his face was brilliant.

That percentage was the average for the number of rocket launches for the world. So far Elon Musk has done ok but there may be problems ahead with his proposal for heavy lifting items into orbit. So far Space X has had 10 successful launches of their Falcon 9 rockets.

No, I don't hate Elon Musk since I don't know him, all I am interested in is feasibility and not hype. If I am wrong then fine I don't mind and I have learned something new but just believing the hype without valid evidence is plain stupid.

Of course by then you'll insist that, even though Hyperloop turned out to work after all and the BFR seems to take off and land like clockwork, everything else that will be in the pipeline at that point will be bound to fail because it can't possibly work

See there you go jumping to conclusions. Where is your evidence for what you just said? I personally don't have any evidence for success or failure although I have pointed out concerns. So far you seem to think that everything is going to work fine. I am sorry but science is not in the business of miracles otherwise we would all have jetpacks and flying cars by now.

What country is that?

South Africa - here is an article about it, but to summarize, politicians and a politically well connected family were facing increasing media attention about controversial contracts and hired a British PR firm to attempt to distract everyone from it. They were fueling the already high tensions regarding race and wealth distribution.

Since we haven't seen the ads nor the evidence that they were Russian in origin, I can't offer a definitive opinion, and neither can you

I wasn't, because they can't prove it and never will be able to, either for or against. But the allegations and rumours will persist for years, same as the shit that Bell Pottinger got up to. The problem is the racial tensions in my country end up killing people. The Russian rumour mongering will only lead to World War 3, which is not that bad :-)

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/26/microsoft-kill-windows-rt-larson-green

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/10477811/Microsoft-appears-set-to-abandon-Windows-RT.html

http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-is-hammering-the-final-nails-into-windows-rts-coffin-7000023641/

http://www.timeslive.co.za/scitech/2013/11/28/microsoft-windows-rt-faces-the-chop

http://blogs.computerworld.com/windows/23194/microsoft-confirms-windows-rt-will-die

Also meat from the largest potential exporter, China, is likely contaminated with heavy metals.

Yeah, because inviting 21,000 people would take a while on a phone http://www.timeslive.co.za/entertainment/article670622.ece/Teens-Facebook-party-invite-draws-21-000-RSVPs

You have 1 in 5,000 chance of a car accident today, while 172 years from now a 1 in 1,000 chance of world wipe out. That is a significantly high chance of extinction! And where I live is a 1 in 101 chance of being in a car accident :(

Wow people, if I would have read this then I would have gotten a very grim outlook on South Africa. There is ~4mil white people in South Africa controlling 48% of the country's income. That means, white South Africans are rich and is really benefitting from the country. I am extremely rich when comparing myself with the rest of my fellow countrymen. I bought a new Honda Jazz (Fit in the US) last year, I stay in a 3 bedroom house in a relative middle income area (Melville, close to Johannesburg CBD). I went to Germany for 6 weeks last year to integrate our company's cool new IS Voip Android phone. I'm turning 24 on next Sunday. Saturday afternoon I've picked up a black man near Kempton Park (the predominantly white area) trying to hitch-hike. He is ~40, he ran a street shoe repair and sandal making business and has a wife with 2 daughters. He told the gruesome tale of how he was mugged, stabbed and his lifelyhood taken away from him (they stole his phone, money and tools). That day he hitch-hiked with smart office clothes on (tie, leather shoes, white shirt, chinos) because he was turned away as shelf packer. He was on his way to Klerksdorp (190 km away from where I've picked him up) to get food and money from his uncle so that his family can stay alive. Whites are more protected from crime because of the money they pay to stay safe. In my middle class area I can walk safely at night. He, staying in Thembisa, cannot say the same. So in terms of me and my own (white) story, South Africa is a wonderful place full of opportunities. We as a country are growing, we are cleaning up our communities, we are trying to lift our moral standards. Yes, we have a (black) corrupt government that is not out for the upliftment of the (black) populance (but only for their own bank accounts), but the people are savvy'ing up to the fact. Give it 4 years and we may see a change in government. There are a more than just a few non-corrupt ones in government that is trying to make a positive change. And yes, explisit material exposure is a moral cancer. You do not even have to leave your TV room to watch a strip show, just watch MTV. Sexting, trafficking, prostitution is even entering our schools where children even at the age of 11 (I'm talking about boys, not girls) get sexually active. Girls even at the age of 7 gets pimped out by their families. I for one am support the minister's call for an end to porn and will even support her for the end of the adult material industry in South Africa. If you want to watch it, import and watch as you please but this shit needs to stop in my country. http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/ http://www.statssa.gov.za/ http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article472923.ece/DA-takes-Gugulethu