You are Proudly South African when…
I received this via email,
· You call a bathing suit a "swimming costume"
· You call a traffic light a "robot"
· The employees dance in front of the building to show how unhappy they are
· The SABC advertises and shows highlights of the program you just finished watching
· You get cold easily. Anything below 16 degrees Celsius is Arctic weather
· You know what Rooibos Tea is, even if you’ve never had any
· You can sing your national anthem in four languages, and you have no idea what it means in any of them
· You know someone who knows someone who has met Nelson Madela
· You go to "braais" (barbecues) regularly, where you eat boerewors (long meaty sausage-type thing) and swim, sometimes simultaneously
· You know that there’s nothing to do in the Free State
· You produce a R100 note instead of your driver’s licence when stopped by a traffic officer
· You can do your monthly shopping on the pavement
· You have to hire a security guard whenever you park your car
· You can count the national soccer team’s scores with no fingers
· To get free electricity you have to pay a connection fee of R750
· Hijacking cars is a profession
· You can pay your tuition fees by holding up a sign at a traffic light
· The petrol in your tank may be worth more than your car
· More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election
· People have the most wonderful names: Christmas, Goodwill, Pretty, Wednesday, Blessing, Brilliant, Gift, Precious, Innocence and Given
· "Now now" can mean anything from a minute to a month
· You continue to wait after a traffic light has turned to green to make way for taxis travelling in the opposite direction
· Travelling at 120 km/h you’re the slowest vehicle on the highway
· You’re genuinely and pleasantly surprised whenever you find your car parked where you left it
· A bullet train is being introduced, but we can’t fix potholes
· The last time you visited the coast you paid more in speeding fines and toll fees than you did for the entire holiday
· You paint your car’s registration on the roof
· You have to take your own linen with you if you are admitted to a government hospital
· You have to prove that you don’t need a loan to get one
· Prisoners go on strike
· You don’t stop at a red traffic light, in case somebody hijacks your car
· You consider it a good month if you only get mugged once
· Rwandan refugees start leaving the country because the crime rate is too high
- When 2 Afrikaans TV programmes are separated by a Xhosa announcement of the following Afrikaans program, and a Zulu ad
- You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from SA
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Great list. Sometimes scary, always true