Yah, not one of that kind myself - where ever I may be In what ways are South Africans full of themselves? in your opinion? The "we have the most progressive constitution ever, with equal rights for all, and poverty will be eradicated" when bent over grannies take care of their six granchildren, whose parents died, working two three or more menial jobs at an age where they should be taken care of. Or when households headed by twelve year olds, who left school to work for pretty much the same reason, and cannot be legally employed, ending up doing anything illlegal for the next meal. And anyone of the cars driven by the throng of politicians claiming equality, can by one family a solid house. All just because some politician could not admit that HIV causes Aids. So most politicians are full of it, anywhere. But the discrepancy between the have's and have not's here, and the callousness with which it is flaunted, the public justification, is indescribable. And yet the sad pictures are hauled out whenever a handout is wanted. Perhaps I don't see the big picture, and am just caught up in the day to day misery and fustration of the so many lives that touch mine, I cannot think of a more humourous thing to lighten that paragraph with. For all these contradictions, I would still not want to live anywhere else, and just hope that out of great pain comes great beauty.