RANDOM RANDOM - YOU ARE PROUDLY SOUTH AFRICAN WHEN...

• You call a bathing suit a "swimming costume"
• You call a traffic light a "robot"
• The employees dance in front of the building to show how unhappy they are
• The SABC advertises and shows highlights of the program you just finished watching
• You get cold easily. Anything below 16 degrees Celsius is Arctic weather
• You know what Rooibos Tea is, even if you've never had any
• You can sing your national anthem in four languages, and you have no idea what it means in any of them
• You know someone who knows someone who has met Nelson Madela
• You go to "braais" (barbecues) regularly, where you eat boerewors (long meaty sausage-type thing) and swim, sometimes simultaneously
• You know that there's nothing to do in the Free State
• You produce a R100 note instead of your driver's licence when stopped by a traffic officer
• You can do your monthly shopping on the pavement
• You have to hire a security guard whenever you park your car
• You can count the national soccer team's scores with no fingers
• To get free electricity you have to pay a connection fee of R750
• Hijacking cars is a profession
• You can pay your tuition fees by holding up a sign at a traffic light
• The petrol in your tank may be worth more than your car
• More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election
• People have the most wonderful names: Christmas, Goodwill, Pretty, Wednesday, Blessing, Brilliant, Gift, Precious, Innocence and Given
• "Now now" can mean anything from a minute to a month
• You continue to wait after a traffic light has turned to green to make way for taxis travelling in the opposite direction
• Travelling at 120 km/h you're the slowest vehicle on the highway
• You're genuinely and pleasantly surprised whenever you find your car parked where you left it
• A bullet train is being introduced, but we can't fix potholes
• The last time you visited the coast you paid more in speeding fines and toll fees than you did for the entire holiday
• You paint your car's registration on the roof
• You have to take your own linen with you if you are admitted to a government hospital
• You have to prove that you don't need a loan to get one
• Prisoners go on strike
• You don't stop at a red traffic light, in case somebody hijacks your car
• You consider it a good month if you only get mugged once
• Rwandan refugees start leaving the country because the crime rate is too high
• When 2 Afrikaans TV programmes are separated by a Xhosa announcement of the following Afrikaans program, and a Zulu ad
• You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from SA