We have a lot of white South Afticans on board the vessel the Boers hated him and the English SA liked him. Make of that what you will.
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You mean the ones who emigrated to SA because England wasn’t racist enough for them?
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David Lacey, former Grauniad chief football writer and general sports correspondent, has died at the age of 83. He was a superb football writer; in fact, I’d struggle to think of a better one.
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One obviously hasn’t met the diaspora of South Africans in the UK.
My Lethal Weapon 2 impressions get almost a monthly run-out.
I’ve one in my team. Afrikaans. Totally decent bloke. Him and family 
Mileage varies.
A few on here have met the opposite. She had a “garden boy” back in SA.
I guess you can only make personal opinions by experience, good and/or bad. Mind you there’s very good and very bad in every nation. Take the UK for instance.
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By today’s standards, some of the things that the UK has done in the past have been barbaric.
But we weren’t doing apartheid as official government policy into the 1990s.
I take everyone on their merits, so there’s no danger of me generalising. But Spitting Image did do a song about this subject in the 1980s which was much more generalising.
Indeed.
“Spitting Image – (I’ve Never Met) A Nice South African Lyrics | Genius Lyrics” https://genius.com/Spitting-image-ive-never-met-a-nice-south-african-lyrics
I hadn’t realised John Lloyd co-wrote it.
He’s finished his last race.
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and it will be his last.
God, I hated that song.
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It was my first love.
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Fuck off. 
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