Redleg
Thanks for those kind words.
Sadly RSA is already going that way...... The sugar farms (for example) along the Mozambique border have all been handed over and what used to provide immense wealth and numerous jobs is now nothing more than a desert. Working pumps and irrigation systems have been torn up and sold as scrap, houses & outbuildings etc burned and nothing at all left is except an ocasional mud hut and beggars beside the road waiting for the white man to come along and give them something more for mahala. (free)
As for Malema, I'm sure that one day that mad bastard will be President and when he is, I have no doubt he'll make Mad Bob Mugabe look like a saint....... nor do I have any doubt the west won't do anything meaningful about the situation except give him umpteen millions to tuck away in his Swiss bank account.
Life here is good and the locals although relatively poor are very welcoming and generous. I've done a deal with a little old lady here where she looks after my grapevines in exchange for keeping the grapes to make wine with....... I told her all I wanted was an occasional bottle of vino just so I knew what my Casa Numzaan wine was like..... since then, she's been bringing me 5 litre bottles of it faster than I can drink the stuff....... and I've gotta say, it's a heck of a lot nicer than I ever expected....... others also regularly arrive with things like home grown veggies. Last week, my neighbour gave me 14 cucumbers and quite what I do with that little lot, I don't know.
In exchange, I'm told I can expect 350 - 500 kgs of kiwi fruit and also no end of other fruit from my place here so I'll be giving them away as quick as I can before I get buried in the stuff! LOL.
I guess we're very lucky in that we can run our business from anywhere in the world nowadays and I have to say, the weather here is the dog's doo dahs so we've landed on our feet.
Oh and the hunting here is also very good. I've been advising a company here on how to market their products to overseas hunters and what they have is very good. I went up their areas near Castelo Branco (near the Spanish border) last week and saw more wild red and fallow deer, wild boar and partridges than I've seen in my life and their prices are a heck of a lot cheaper than other European countries.
