Lets see how many more we can add: You are proudl south African when you... 1. You produce a R100 note instead of your drivers license when stopped by a traffic officer 2. You can do your monthly shopping on the pavement 3. You have to hire a security guard whenever you park your car 4. You can count the national soccer teams scores with no fingers... 5. To get free electricity you have to pay a connection fee of R750 6. Hijacking cars is a profession 7. You can pay your tuition fees by holding up a sign at a traffic light 8. The petrol in your tank may be worth more than your car 9. More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election 10. People have the most wonderful names: Christmas, Goodwill, Pretty, Wednesday, Blessing, Brilliant, Gift, Precious, Innocence and Given 11. Now now can mean anything from a minute to a month 12. You continue to wait after a traffic light has turned to green to make way for taxis traveling in the opposite direction 13. Traveling at 120 km/h youre the slowest vehicle on the highway 14. Youre genuinely and pleasantly surprised whenever you find your car parked where you left it 15. A bullet train is being introduced, but we cant fix potholes 16. The last time you visited the coast you paid more in speeding fines and toll fees than you did for the entire holiday 17. You paint your cars registration on the roof 18. You have to take your own linen with you if you are admitted to a government hospital 19. You have to prove that you dont need a loan to get one 20. Prisoners go on strike 21. You dont stop at a red traffic light, in case somebody hijacks your car 22. You consider it a good month if you only get mugged once 23. Rwandan refugees start leaving the country because the crime rate is too high 24. When 2 Afrikaans TV programs are separated by a Xhosa announcement of the following Afrikaans program, and a Pedi ad 25. The employees dance in front of the building to show how unhappy they are 26. The SABC advertises and shows highlights of the program you just finished watching 27. You get cold easily. Anything below 16 degrees Celsius is Arctic weather 28. You call a bathing suit a swimming costume 29. You know what Rooibos Tea is, even if youve never had any 30. You can sing your national anthem in four languages, and you have no idea what it means in any of them 31. You know someone who knows someone who has met Nelson Mandela 32. You go to braais (barbecues) regularly, where you eat boerewors (long meaty sausage-type thing) and swim, sometimes simultaneously 33. You know that theres nothing to do in the Free State.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 08:04:30 +0000