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Gold/Mining/Energy : Gold Price Monitor
GDXJ 113.74-1.2%Dec 31 4:00 PM EST

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To: long-gone who wrote (35633)6/21/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (2) of 116836
 
Thanks Richard.

Yes, I've been quiet --- also demoralized with the low gold price and all that goes with it. Also noticed that the tempers of many posters have become very frayed which is another reason to keep my trap shut.

Crime is very, very bad in SAf. Black on white and black on black. Yes, there is an economic basis to it in poverty etc but poverty is not an excuse for crime. There are many very poor people in this world but they do not resort to crime. And certainly not murder and rape. Some woman or child is raped every 30 seconds in this country. The government loves to blame whatever crime on the victim --- whether hijacking, bank robbery, murder or rape. Especially crimes involving money. After all, the whites stole everything from the blacks and now it's payback time.

Can't say if crime is getting worse --- all I know is that it's about the highest in the world already --- in every department. Last week, a friend of mine was shot dead. He advertised a lap-top computer for sale. Someone arrived at his apartment to buy it but produced a gun instead of money. Bang! Wasn't even mentioned in the newspaper.

The government not only has failed to deal with crime but is not really interested to. Their main concern is passing laws to deprive whites of economic opportunity or should I say empowering or enriching blacks. Meanwhile illegal immigrants from every country in Africa are swarming into SAf. The government gives them refugee status and welcomes them.

It's bad enough having to live here but I truly can't understand why people in the US, or anywhere else, want to invest even one cent here. Do they really expect to see a return on their investment?!!
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