Ian, you make a good point and definitely something that prospective dual-citizens should keep in mind. With your Egypt-example, you would be OK because you would've entered Egypt on your US passport, i.e. as an American, and as such, you would be entitled to assistance from the US government. What people need to keep in mind is that SA/USA dual-citizens are required to enter South Africa on their SA passport. I they then get in trouble in SA, they would not be entitled to US protection because they would be in South Africa as South Africans.

Cher, I don't think you can get in trouble. It's your decision whether you keep your SA citizenship or not. You simply use your foreign passport and that's that.

Thank goodness, for now Malema is not South Africa's future. If you haven't heard yet, he was suspended from the ANC for 5 years. That doesn't mean that he won't be trying to influence things from behind the scenes, but it will hopefully mean that he gradually loses all his influence and will be a political has-been in 5 years from now. I see there has been quite a bit of celebration in South Africa about his demise. Let's hope the next leader of the ANCYL has more sense.

You're right. The Voortrekker pioneers must be turning in their graves, but not for the reasons you think. They undertook their Great Trek to get away from the British and all the British laws that they considered to be oppressive. All they ever wanted was to have their own land where they could rule themselves according to their own values.
I hope for your sake that the "prophets of doom" here are wrong, but given Malema's utterings and position within the ANC, they might just be "prophets of reality". I hope it is not the case.

I've been in touch with many South African expats in the US and I can't think of a single one that would qualify to be labeled a "leftist agitator", as you call them. The South Africans I have met here are not political activists of any kind. They are merely ordinary people who assessed a situation and implications of the situation for their children, and decided to move elsewhere to make safe living. Granted, I haven't met all South Africans in the US, but I would think that would've bumped into a few "leftist agitators" by now.

Very nice, Jason... open up with a threat!

This particular poll was about asking people why they left South Africa. Very few people leave a country if they are happy with it. So, by the nature of the question, the answers were going to be about negative things.

South Africans, including expats, don't want to bring apartheid back, as you say. In case you don't know, in 1992 there was a nation-wide whites-only referendum in South Africa where the overwhelming majority of votes were in favor of ending apartheid and reforming the country. Many expats were still living there back then. So to say that expats want to bring apartheid back, is simply ludicrous and ill-informed. People want a fair, safe South Africa where everyone has an equal shot. That's what the 1992 referendum said.

About instability in changing countries, some countries remain unstable and are eventually run into the ground. Zimbabwe got their "freedom", but Mugabe raped and pillaged the land for his own personal gain, leaving many Zimbabweans so destitute that they take their chances against crocodiles while swimming across the Limpopo to make their way to South Africa. If something is wrong in a country, its citizens have a right to speak up.

Great article, Graham! Very helpful. I also shared it with my friends on Facebook and Twitter.

I have now implemented 2-step verification, which I didn't even know existed. My forwarding was not fiddled with. My password is pretty decent. I saw no suspicious access activity on my account. I run Ubuntu Linux, which helps with the malware issue. Happy camper :-) Thanks for writing this!

Anadra, no need to completely freak out, although I understand that you want to. My wife's desktop, which was the infected computer that my article is based on, has now been clean and running for a little more than a year after I took the steps that I outlined in the article. I'm not 100% convinced that the computer is exactly the same as it was before the infection, but it is running well. (The only difference I know about is that she can no longer run Firefox because it slows the computer down when it consumes 100% CPU cycles, but she simply uses Chrome now, which works great.)

After cleaning your laptop, I would recommend that you back up all your important files somewhere else as well. It can be as simple as backing your stuff up to an external hard drive, or there are some great online solutions available too. This will also protect you against, for example, a hard drive crash.

Biko, to answer your question, I think that was what the referendum of 1992 was all about. It was white people saying South Africa needed to be reformed to include all racial groups on an equal basis in its economy and other aspects of life.

You talk about the "Eurocentric approaches" of business practices of whites. What does that mean? Does it refer to an efficiently-run company that provides jobs, pays its employees, and turns a profit? How does that differ from the way that Julius Malema conducts business where he relies on connections in the ANC to get government contracts only available to well-connected black companies, and then delivers sub-standard work? How does that differ from the Aurora mining company run by the Mandela and Zuma families who made large profits, but where workers are desperate because they haven't been paid? Is that the humanity you are talking about?

I saw this statement the other day: "South Africa is the only country in the world where affirmative action is in the favour of the majority who has complete political control. The fact that the political majority requires affirmative action to protect them against a 9% minority group is testament to a complete failure on their part to build their own wealth-producing structures."

I'm afraid white people are going to get blamed for South Africa's woes for decades to come! At some point, those in charge need to start taking responsibility for their own failures.

You're welcome! Our only weapon against these idiots is to share the solutions with one another.