It's tough, but someone has to talk about it! (Patreon)

I honestly don't like having to talk about what's going on in Africa as far as China is concerned, I myself have a big love/hate relationship with Africa (mainly the latter to be honest). I don't ever want to live in Africa again, but I do understand Africa very well and do love and understand the good people there. I have no love for the criminals who have killed my friends or attacked my family and driven out so many of my peers, they are a certain, special kind of bad folk, in South Africa they have a special name that everyone no matter what colour or background call them: "Tsotsi" a tsotsi is a brutal criminal with no morals, the sort of person who will kill you and your entire family for a cellphone and they'll torture you to death for the fun of it, they represent a dark, dark part of human nature that I prefer not to dwell on or think about.  I'm not even going to get started on the current government in South Africa, they're not worth the time or effort it takes to inhale air to form the words.

That being said, the people I grew up with in Africa were a very diverse bunch, of course at a young age the majority of my friends were white and coloured as I lived in Cape-Town (coloureds are actually a race in South Africa mainly found in the Western Cape, they are the result of trading ships passing through Cape-Town and are a very interesting mixture of Bushman, Malaysian, White, Black and other races who traveled through the Cape on their way to India or the far east), I also had my fair share of black friends growing up as we would travel to neighbouring African countries and you know kids, it doesn't matter where you're from, you'll make friends with other kids your age in any given situation. 

I, like everyone will always have a bias towards my own culture and upbringing, but having been exposed to the many differing African cultures and tribes growing up (one of my best friends when I was young was a Zulu boy I met on my uncle's farm, the son of a farm-hand), our cultures were incredibly different and attitudes towards life clashed on many things, but it didn't stop us having our adventures along the rivers pretending to hunt lions...

What I'm getting at here is that despite the animosity I hold towards Africa for what it has done to my friends, my family and myself, I still have a deep connection to Africa and its peoples and that is why it bothers me so much to see the wholesale destruction of especially the environment there by Chinese exploitation. I'm not blaming Chinese people here, I'm blaming these awful government initiatives on both sides of the fence that allow this sort of thing to exist:

https://observers.france24.com/en/20190411-central-african-republic-river-chinese-mining-companies

This article pinpoints what I'm talking about, the lack of regulation, oversight and care by anyone involved is leaving the African environment in ruins. It breaks my heart to see such wholesale destruction of Africa even if I personally never want to see Africa again.

I don't like pointing out these inconvenient truths as it makes me look like I'm bashing China, but I'm finding it hard to in any way present this sort of information in any other way.

Sorry for the downer this week, I'll be cheering things up a bit in the coming week and thank you all for your support here on Patreon, you truly have helped both Sasha and myself through something big and we will have a massive announcement for you all shortly! 

Love you all and can't wait to see you in the next video!

- Stay Awesome!

SerpentZA