By A Texas Reader
sun, apr 9, 2023 6:06 p.m.
journalist murdered in south africa had warned kids to leave 'falling apart' country
Police are working "intensely" to find those responsible for the murder of a prominent South African journalist who was killed during a burglary at his home in Johannesburg.
Jeremy Gordin's death has highlighted the country's growing security problems and comes just months after the writer published an emotional letter warning his two grown children to emigrate because things were "falling apart".
And from an email I sent on February 8, 2008:
"Why did your parents leave South Africa?," I asked.
"Because they saw the handwriting on the wall," she said.
I remember this conversation well. I had it as a sophomore in the spring of 1978 with a white girl from South Africa. The girl was a freshman at the University of Dallas. I used to socialize with her. Her family actually was from Rhodesia, but then had moved to South Africa. And then moved to the States sometime in the mid '70s.
Go figure: A native knew almost two generations ago what lay in store for South Africa.
What fate awaits the US?
"Because they saw the handwriting on the wall," she said.
I remember this conversation well. I had it as a sophomore in the spring of 1978 with a white girl from South Africa. The girl was a freshman at the University of Dallas. I used to socialize with her. Her family actually was from Rhodesia, but then had moved to South Africa. And then moved to the States sometime in the mid '70s.
Go figure: A native knew almost two generations ago what lay in store for South Africa.
What fate awaits the US?
1 comment:
"A native knew almost two generations ago what lay in store for South Africa."
Probably knew that for a long time before that. A situation too volatile and like the American race problem NEVER was going to be a realistic solution.
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