African Adventures

Can I bring alcohol back into the US from another country if I am a minor?

I'm going to S. Africa and would like to bring my friend back a bottle of wine, unfortunately I am only 20 (so close to 21 too).

You could, and as Pilsner man suggest, put it in you baggage. It might pass muster at customs, but as soon as you go through the door from customs into the terminal you are in violation of the law and are subject to the ramifications of doing so. Is it worth the risk? Only you can answer that.

What is the cheapest shop in South Africa that sells the wave street surfing board?

not really sure, but i do know you can go on their website and get the board there plus some other sweet stuff…..def worth the look, and they list online retailers that sell the board as well….

www.thewave.com

check it out!

hope that helps….see ya on the streets!

Do you think that Israel and the ADL are cowards for not addressing antisemitism at Durban 2?

For a group that wants to fight antisemitism, the ADL, Southern Poverty Law Center, the Simon Weisenthal Center and all the other pro-Israel lobbies had a chance to fight antisemitism at Durban 2, but these groups have show that they are cowards.

If these groups will not fight antisemitism, who will?

Israel has decided not to take any part of the Durban 2 confrence becasue of the massive abounts of anti-semitism remarks and accusations included in the conference document…
For example, the 2001 draft for the confrence included statements such as, "increase of racist practices of Zionism and anti-Semitism", refers Israel of having "racial policies of the occupying power."
The original official document for this years conference includes comments such as, "A foreign occupation founded on settlements, laws based on racial discrimination with the aim of continuing domination of the occupied territories,"
Since the majority of the states in the confrence are arab states, which all hate Israel, they have the power to make the document however they want…by singling out Israel as the cause of everything, and completely ignoring Islam.
Israel chose to have nothing to do with this conference becasue they didn't want to go to something that has no benefit to them, and sit there while they are being accused of aparthied, genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, murdering palestinians, stealing land, killing innocents, being terrorists, and many more. Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, defended Israel by explaining, “There is no country in the world that would want to willingly subject itself to a kangaroo court where it is demonized and delegitimized.”
Going to this conference WILL NOT FIGHT ANTI-SEMITISM, IT WILL ONLY INCREASE IT…By Israel, the United States, Italy, Canada, and more states to come boycotting this conference, they are showing the world that this conference is not helping anti-Semitism, it is only a way for the Arab nations to spread their message of anti-Semitism around the world.

Is South Africa socially and economically better, worse, or the same after Apartheid?

After the end of Apartheid in South Africa, and since blacks have ruled the government; is South Africa better, worse, or the same?

Explain.

Lets talk economics. Economically South Africa has measurably suffered great losses- however, this was bound to happen. One cannot compare the country south africa is now, with apartheid south africa, there is no longer a huge population indentured by poverty and their situation to produce- this economic downturn is bound to happen whilst South Africa migrates from an agrarian virtually slave-based labour force to more automated systems of labour. I believe it is a matter of growing pains, with the alleviation of slavery and massive social reform, comes decades of unrest and the surfacing of hatreds both modern and ancient.

Though this is unfortunate, it is an inevitability, whilst apartheid, economically speaking, worked, so did slavery in america- and whilst its abolition has created its own set of problems, they are better problems to have, in my opinion then the moral dilemmna, and the downright evil nature that apartheid presented itself with.

Afrikaans who reminisce about the good old days don't have any concept of compassion (or find compassion incidental when compared to greed) for those who are not of their colour- they proved it under apartheid by the shocking conditions they forced onto the South African people and continue to prove it with their comments now. Unfortunately, it is this attitude that is largely responsible for the hatred of the newly freed blacks of south africa.

Voting me down? I'd love a logical refutation with that please- but something tells me all you are capable of is a racist diatribe.

*edit*
To answer the the post below, i never labelled all south afrikaans as racist- what i said was that those who reminisce about the old days are willfully forgetting that the apartheid era meant so many horrors for so many people. You must forgive me, but i think that you are mistaking me for generalising when i was pointing out trends. I take it for granted that people understand that when one talks about for example, an undercurrent of socialism in australia- that doesn't mean for a second that all australians are socialist, just like when one talks of an undercurrent of hatred in south africa, this doesn't mean that all south africans are full of hate, i thought this elementary knowledge so didn't state it previously. My apologies.

As i read your post i was very pleased to see such keen mind at work with an eye for solutions. There is hate, i have worked with south Afrikaans, i have heard them speak, older mates then myself lived over there as whites for some period under Apartheid- also, reading the above comments, how can you not see that hatred is fresh and prominent still in your country? This state of denial in an otherwise obviously very thoughtful individual puzzles me.

Grizzly Bears on Grand Teton wildlife photo safari

A grizzly and her cubs seen from the tour vehicle walking along the roadside on a wildlife photo safari with Wyoming Photo Experience.
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South African Safari

Sightings of the “big five” at the Londolozi game reserve in South Africa

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