text: south africa? i guess a lot of different countries use this so first i'll say i'm american...or african american/black american whatever.  anyway...i took a african american history course about a year ago, and i asked how the different african countries were doing. i knew a lot of them had lots of civil war and stuff.  my teacher told me the whole continent was basically fuked up. i asked him what about south africa because.....well thats the only country i hear about in africa(americans may agree with me). he told me south africa was fuked up also.   so to any south africans or anyone who visited it recently, is the country really doing bad or what? i know one of your movies just got an oscar....yeah....thanks for the replies. i worked overseas with a guy from south africa and he basically said that there are big problems there, great tracts of land in dis-repair and large ghettos, where black and white have to live.  basically because after apartheid lots of people lost their jobs.  probably the same thing that would happen in the us if all the mexican/hispanics wouldn't do menial labor, and charged us for years of working like that.  the tourist/port sections are still ok because of the infusion of cash they get, but he described it as the country tax section as messed up and they were not able to support their own infrastructure.