True

Also holiday version: the beaches are nice, the girls are sexy, dudes are scary, and streets are dirty (but it isn't a problem: we can't see grime during parties)

Basically everybody speaks english in South Africa because it's a former British colony, and most news is written in english because most schooling is done in english and second-language english speakers are often more comfortable writing in english.

So really (and especially in cases where english is in wide use) it's just about knowing where to go for news.

I know a handful of anarchists who work at New Frame for example, and it's just one of a few other places that do meaningful social and/or political journalism. There are other groups, like Busting The Myth Of White Genocide in South Africa that are full websites dedicated to undermining the bullshit racist emigrants spout.

Good to know about that second one, thanks for the link. Made-up narratives about SA are really popular with nazis where I live.

Good to be able to debunk that garbage when it comes up.

The FAQ page is pretty useful.

Yep, pretty much exactly what I needed!

Thanks for the second link! "White genocide in South Africa" guys drive me completely out of rails! Usually, I'm so raging after "But look what happen to post-apartheid SA" argument, that I barely can counter it! This link will provide me some valuable local insights.

I usually don't care but this one(?) downvote made me wonder if I really (unknowlingly) said something inappropriate. I would really appreciate an explanation from one who downvoted it. I think it's important for me. I fully accept the possibility of me being wrong somewhere here.

Ahh, thank you! It's not a big deal usually, really, but in this case it was really important for me.

I like the FAQ, but in my experience, pointing out the facts with fashy types is only sometime helpful, because they'll just dismiss it as whatever boogeyman's agenda they think it's about.