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South Africa comes of age

September 30, 2007 on 9:13 pm | In Uncategorized |

Remember protesting against apartheid? I was politically unaware in those days. I just wished the dopey hippies would piss off and let me watch the rugby.

But today is the day that brings home the bacon. Instead of having to listen to crap pop singers going on and on about Soweto, we can celebrate today as the day when black South Africa joined the first world.

Giant Soweto shopping mall opens

Yes as of today, South Africans in Soweto can go to Williams the Shoemen and Baker’s Delight and Target and Sanity Music and if they’re really lucky, Hollister and Cold Stone and American Eagle stores. Visiting the mall to, like, buy stuff can take its rightful place as the principal hobby of the black South African middle class. They can now look forward to listening to Christmas carols any time they want for the next three months, and to using state-of-the-art stainless steel trolleys to cart more useless crap to their cars than they can fit in the boot.

All the things that distinguish white culture, that the poor bastards were denied by arseholes like Piet Botha, are now available equally to blacks.

I hope they feel that the journey was worthwhile. Can I tempt you with a five kilogram block of Cadbury’s milk chocolate to celebrate? Available on special from K-Mart, while stocks last.