Mercury_Storm

YOU ARE PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN WHEN:
Ø You produce a R100 note instead of your driver's license when stopped by a traffic officer

Ø You can do your monthly shopping on the pavement

Ø You have to hire a security guard whenever you park your car

Ø You can count the national soccer team's scores with no fingers

Ø To get free electricity you have to pay a connection fee of R750

Ø Hijacking cars is a profession

Ø You can pay your tuition fees by holding up a sign at a traffic light

Ø The petrol in your tank may be worth more than your car

Ø More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election

Ø People have the most wonderful names: Christmas, Goodwill, Pretty, Wednesday, Blessing, Brilliant, Gift, Precious, Innocence and Given.

Ø "Now now" can mean anything from a minute to a month

Ø You continue to wait after a traffic light has turned to green to make way for taxis traveling in the opposite direction

Ø Traveling at 120 km/h you're the slowest vehicle on the highway

Ø You're genuinely and pleasantly surprised whenever you find your car parked where you left it

Ø A bullet train is being introduced, but we can't fix potholes

Ø The last time you visited the coast you paid more in speeding fines and toll fees than you did for the entire holiday

Ø You paint your car's registration on the roof

Ø You have to take your own linen with you if you are admitted to a government hospital

Ø You have to prove that you don't need a loan to get one

Ø Prisoners go on strike

Ø You don't stop at a red traffic light, in case somebody hijacks your car

Ø You consider it a good month if you only get mugged once

Ø Rwandan refugees start leaving the country because the crime rate is too high

Ø When 2 Afrikaans TV programs are separated by a Xhosa announcement of the following Afrikaans program, and a Pedi ad

Ø The employees dance in front of the building to show how unhappy they are

Ø The SABC advertises and shows highlights of the program you just finished watching

Ø You get cold easily. Anything below 16 degrees Celsius is Arctic weather

Ø You call a bathing suit a "swimming costume"

Ø You know what Rooibos Tea is, even if you've never had any

Ø You can sing your national anthem in four languages, and you have no idea what it means in any of them

Ø You know someone who knows someone who has met Nelson Mandela

Ø You go to "braais" (barbecues) regularly, where you eat boerewors (Long meaty sausage-type thing) and swim, sometimes simultaneously

Ø You know that there's nothing to do in the Free State

Ø You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from SA[/font]