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Quote from: Patrick on March 08, 2016, 04:01:16 pm

Quote from: MoneyChief on March 08, 2016, 03:30:28 pm

Quote from: Patrick on March 08, 2016, 02:27:14 pm

Deciding when to move money out of SA (if at all ever?).

Why would you want to leave South Africa, it is one of the best places on the planet:

Rated on purchasing power, safety, climate, health care, traffic, property prices and pollution Cape Town is:

I also quite like it here, but I'd like to travel too. Regardless of that though, I do think at least some of my money should leave at some point, but hopefully at a far better rate than we're seeing at the moment.

It's all very well say that SA is a great place to live. But when your wife/child says their car is broken down besides the freeway - the emotions that go though you are not the same others would feel in the same situation in other countries.

In the last three months, 2 for school friends fathers have been murdered in JHB - both obviously older guys, both in their homes. Another girls brother got badly beaten in a hi jacking. A lekker place to live UNTIL shit happens.

You have to put stuff into perspective. Yes, crime is very scary. We are human and we are designed to fear crime. How scary is obesity, smoking and driving? Fact is that obesity, smoking and driving is much more dangerous than all the crime in this country.

I don't know if you know this, but around half a million people die in South Africa every single year. This is completely normal and keeps the population stable. The vast majority of these deaths are due to illnesses, accidents and natural causes, not crime.

If the news reflected the actual risks for death, they would have to talk for 99 minutes about obesity, smoking, TB, driving accidents, etc and 1 minute about murders. Unfortunately it is the other way around.

Quiz, what is the scariest thing in South Africa?

From stats SA website:

Table 4.3: Number and percentage distribution of deaths by main groups of causes of death, 2013*
No. Main groups of underlying causes of death (based on ICD-10) Number Percentage
1 Certain infectious and parasitic diseases (A00-B99)* 103 708 (22,6%)
2 Neoplasms (C00-D48) 38 034 (8,3%)
3 Diseases of the blood and immune mechanism (D50-D89) 10 357 (2,3%)
4 Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases (E00-E90) 28 974 (6,3%)
5 Mental and behavioural disorders (F00-F99) 1 787 (0,4%)
6 Diseases of the nervous system (G00-G99) 10 998 (2,4%)
7 Diseases of the eye and adnexa (H00-H59) 18 (0,0%)
8 Diseases of the ear and mastoid process (H60-H95) 58 (0,0%)
9 Diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) 76 468 (16,7%)
10 Diseases of the respiratory system (J00-J99) 47 695 (10,4%)
11 Diseases of the digestive system (K00-K93) 11 914 (2,6%)
12 Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue (L00-L99) 826 (0,2%)
13 Diseases of the musculoskeletal system etc. (M00-M99) 1 513 (0,3%)
14 Diseases of the genitourinary system (N00-N99) 8 794 (1,9%)
15 Pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium (O00-O99) 946 (0,2%)
16 Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period (P00-P96) 9 508 (2,1%)
17 Congenital malformations (Q00-Q99) 1 966 (0,4%)
18 Symptoms and signs not elsewhere classified (R00-R99) 58 150 (12,7%)
19 External causes of morbidity and mortality (V01-Y98) 47 219 (10,3%)
Total 458 933 100,0

Answer:
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Scariest thing in South Africa: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

Quote from: MoneyChief on March 31, 2016, 04:43:12 pm

Quiz, what is the scariest thing in South Africa?
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Answer:
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Scariest thing in South Africa: Certain infectious and parasitic diseases

Are you talking about the President   

Maybe