Only 13% of South Africans...

My nephew and nieces (aged 11-14 years old) have been living in the UK for 5 years now, we saw them over the festive season and I can tell you there vocab is far superior than kids of this age in South Africa... So they must be doing something right over there....??

gregbucks Wrote:

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> My nephew and nieces (aged 11-14 years old) have
> been living in the UK for 5 years now, we saw them
> over the festive season and I can tell you there
> vocab is far superior than kids of this age in
> South Africa... So they must be doing something
> right over there....??


public or private schooling?

I have been out of SA for 20 years and I still speak with a full on SA accent.

Just about sums you up Chicken,it took you long enough to reply.
But then i suppose you had to edit all your mistakes.
If you were a fish you wouldnt last long in the river,sounds a bit Cantona i know

true Dave. In fact I had to google my spelling.

Hi Magic , Thanks for the laughs and memories you always bring back . I used to live in Dbn Nth (when you were still in short pants and didnt have arm pit hairs!!!). I lived on Northway...am I allowed to call it that to-day?. I believe its name has now neen changed to Akhisar Belediye Genclik Ve Spor ..(which I believe in cuban means, place where the whites used to roam!).
Remember you and Kid Colt always standing on the stairs at Greyville............with that super looking "bird" that you no longer remember.......:

Cheers and have an enjoyable day.................(tu)

They go to a public school CNC...

I think you would be shocked how the standard of education in South Africa has declined, there are no systems in place, and the educational policies they did introduce in 96 was a proven failure in other parts of the world... Now they are regretting it, but hey its easy to just blame apartheid....:X

Hibs has just stated a fact Chicken and you bite like a rabid dog. Im not sure why you brought education into it.
Good on you for defending yourself but he wasnt having a pop at the intelligence of south africans.
Im like Harry Redknapp,i left school with no A levels,but that doesnt mean you cant get on in life.
Some of the best educated people have no common sense or drive...Richard Branson,Alan Sugar,so on so on all
left school with little exam passes

Chicken get on The Happy Hammer lingfield 5-05...5/1 with sportingbet.
That will cheer you up..

the exams were difficult, well for me anyway, and they would fail anybody without exception in those days. Discipline has a lot to do with your education. If we just looked at a teacher in the wring way it was either detention or off to the head masters office for either a firm speaking to or a bend over (cuts)

davetheflower Wrote:

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> Chicken get on The Happy Hammer lingfield
> 5-05...5/1 with sportingbet.
> That will cheer you up..


Daniel Thomas has not put a foot wrong on the all weather of late?

davetheflower Wrote:

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> Hibs has just stated a fact Chicken and you bite
> like a rabid dog. Im not sure why you brought
> education into it.
> Good on you for defending yourself but he wasnt
> having a pop at the intelligence of south
> africans.
> Im like Harry Redknapp,i left school with no A
> levels,but that doesnt mean you cant get on in
> life.
> Some of the best educated people have no common
> sense or drive...Richard Branson,Alan Sugar,so on
> so on all
> left school with little exam passes


Dave, what is it that Micheal Winner says in the ads "calm down dear" well calm down dave I am just having a wind up.

Country Member ,never missed a meeting in those days..........was on those Greyville stairs too......quite friendly with Kid and Charlie Goode.....was particularly friendly with Chris Evans who went on to have quite a few horses with Mark Dixon............I bet I'd know you if I saw you?

(BTW was at school at Beachwood (now Norwood I believe) and at Journey's End on Saturday nights in the late 60's