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Oh yes, I am sure that these dirt poor black afrikaner have so much to chat about over the phone.
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Rural Africa new frontier for mobile phone boom
Wed Oct 4, 2006 8:50am ET137
By Rebecca Harrison
KGAUTSWANE, South Africa (Reuters) - Lucy Mhlapo had noticed people in the nearby town chattering into tiny metal boxes pressed to their ears, but she never dreamed she'd use one of the devices herself.
Then, in August last year, a 45-meter (148-ft) tower of red and white steel appeared on the hill behind Mhlapo's dusty village in South Africa's north-east. The neighbors said it would make cell phones work here in Kgautswane.
Mhlapo's daughter scraped together enough cash for a second-hand cell phone and some airtime, and in January this year, at the age of 60, Mhlapo made her first call.
"I was so happy, I called my brother in Johannesburg and asked him to bring some mealie pap," she laughed, referring to the staple starch food popular in southern Africa.
Mobile operators are scrambling to gain a foothold in Africa, where cell phone penetration hovers at just 15 percent and growth is ripe for those with a stomach for risk.
A decade after mobile technology took off on the continent, most affluent city dwellers have phones, making poor rural areas like Kgautswane the new battleground for operators seeking growth.
Blood, Honor, Conviction & Principle.
Posted : 04/10/2006 2:49 pm
This image is always appropriate any time there is an article or discussion involving blacks and cell phones:
"I was so happy, I called my brother in Johannesburg and asked him to bring some mealie pap," she laughed, referring to the staple starch food popular in southern Africa.
"Staple starch food?" How about we call it "nigger gruel" instead: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mealie_pap
Posted : 04/10/2006 3:18 pm
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My God, where do you guys get these funny things from ? You must share, I do not get the chance to laugh very often.
It is true, when I first heard a nig speaking at about age 11 [my first experiences with ebonics] I was sure it was a completely diffrent language, not yet speaking English that well myself yet. I could understand maybe 1 word out of 15.
Blood, Honor, Conviction & Principle.
Posted : 04/10/2006 3:24 pm
Black 'Hands Free' from Nokia
Posted : 04/10/2006 3:52 pm
That Black man is really using his head.
Posted : 04/10/2006 4:36 pm
The name of that porridge is unsettling - - knowing African blacks, "mealie pap" may indeed include someone's "pap" (i.e. pappy, father)...
-AM
Posted : 04/10/2006 5:03 pm
Holly, please do not refer to the South African nigger as an Afrikaner, but rather as "kaffirs". 
Afrikaner (Afrikaans)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him...." ------ John 8:44
Posted : 04/10/2006 8:47 pm
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Holly, please do not refer to the South African nigger as an Afrikaner, but rather as "kaffirs".
Afrikaner (Afrikaans)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaner
You are quite right, I am corrected.
It is because English is not my first language I can not get used to putting a C in a word like Afrika or Afrikanisch.
I do see your point though, I shall remember it.
The proud history of S A is a thing I must learn more about.
Blood, Honor, Conviction & Principle.
Posted : 04/10/2006 9:33 pm
yeah, just wait til niggers use these phones to remotely detonate bombs in subways and shit. oh wait....
Posted : 05/10/2006 6:32 pm