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Original Post Date: 2008-04-20 Time: 00:00:00 Posted By: Jan
My Liberal friend phoned me this morning and expressed complete amazement at my description of our discussion which led to this article: Is this Great idea? Zimbabwe: The Govt in Exile idea revisited – How the MDC can get the whole world on its side to throw Mugabe out
His first words were: “Have you ever considered becoming a journalist?” “Not really”, I replied! (Neither of us regard me as a real “journalist!”). He was simply amazed at my summary of our discussions. I said to him that PW Botha had been similarly amazed by the accuracy with which I reproduced our discussions.
He was amazed at the speed of my typing and my accuracy. I had a good chuckle.
He thought I’d typed it up as we had spoken. I told him that I’d written it a couple of hours after we had chatted.
I told him I’m getting pretty good too at hiding the identities of people if I need to – in order to protect them. I take that aspect of things much more seriously these days.
It was really nice to get such a nice compliment from my friend.
I know that he looks down a bit at me too and my views because I’m not as educated as he is. I had actually been told at school I was university material. But then again, we had high standards and only a small percentage of school leavers were expected to get to university. My Liberal friend is starting to see that as “uneducated” as I am, I’m not half bad. I’m maybe more SELF-EDUCATED than anything. Remember, I dropped out of school at the age of 17.
An Afrikaans woman who is moving to Australia was saying to me how worried she is about moving to a new country and starting from scratch. I told her I came to South African with 2 suitcases and R200 in my pocket and nothing else. I told her to just stick it out and FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS on your GOALS. One step at a time. Bite your tongue, hang in there. Don’t let emotion cause you to take steps that will blow up your plan. Think carefully and plan your moves.
I told her that when I came to South Africa, I experienced all sorts of problems. At one point I was even “homeless” in those early days. There was a time when I left the navy when I was going to be without accomodation for 2 weeks because I was waiting for a room to become available at the YMCA. At first I stayed ILLEGALLY in my military accomodation. I managed to stay there for over a week before they threw me out. Then I had about 5 days when I had no place to stay at all. So I had packed all my belongings into my car and had resolved that I would sleep in my car at nights. As luck would have it an Afrikaans army guy I had worked with ran into me, and he offered me a place for a few nights. But I very nearly slept in my car in the streets of Pretoria!
When I arrived in South Africa, because I had not completed my schooling properly, I was paid less than the other Whites I was with. I can’t remember exactly our salaries. But I recall the other PF (Permanent Force) guys getting about R250 or R220 or something like that per month. I was only paid R190 a month because my qualifications were not properly recognised as Matric. I was quite embittered because I could see that knowledge-wise I was not in any way inferior to any of them. But I ignored it, and made my own way through life.
So I gave the Afrikaans lady various tips on how I had managed to adapt and survive in a new country where I had nobody to help me. I was so young that I could not even get a flat (apartment) without my parent’s permission – and she was not in the country. I could not get anyone to sign on my behalf because I was under 21. In the end, when I left the navy, the only place that I could live where this was no problem was the YMCA. And I lived there for a few years.
In the beginning when I was in South Africa, I was without a car for months. I walked or used a train whenever I wanted to go somewhere. Later I got a 2nd hand car but it cost me so much money in repairs that at a point, I actually sold my 2nd hand car and willingly went without a car altogether for about 3-4 years, until I had enough money to buy a new car. And you must know that is not easy in South Africa since public transport is not easy to come by.
I lived a very frugal existence for a number of years. So I know what it is like to struggle and to find your way around a new society. I told the Afrikaans lady that since she and her husband are going together, and they have some possessions already – it should be much easier. If both of them work and focus they will sort themselves out within a few years. I just told her that the key is: DISCIPLINE. Put up with nonsense. Put up with inconvenience and just keep your mind focussed on your GOAL. Just focus on what you want to achieve. Don’t let other things get in your way. Don’t worry about people around you and their nonsense. Just keep focussing on your goals.