You really must get around — as much as you possibly can. That’s always been my motto. If you don’t, you will become a moron. I am dead serious, children. Growing up in good old Hammanskraal, out in the northern parts of this great republic, my friends and I were convinced at a very young age of the benefits of travel. On hot summer evenings we would lie flat on our backs and look up at the cloudless sky. Occasionally an airliner would streak through the night sky. Where was it going? To Russia? Britain? The US? Not once did we ask, as Donald Trump (the Jacob Zuma who masquerades as the US president) would, if they were off to some "shithole country". We didn’t ask because we knew no such thing existed.What Trump did by calling SA and all other African countries shitholes was reveal the problem with not travelling or, worse, visiting places with your eyes and mind closed. Only an ignoramus like Trump, who once called Namibia "Nambia", could fail to see that Haiti is the mess it is b...

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