Most South Africans think South Africa is the best place on Earth; why else would we put up with those that are trying to mess it up? Different places on the planet have different reasons for thinking their particular place is the place to be. North Americans think they are the creators of the great new society. Europeans think they are the inheritors and keepers of Western civilisation. Indians inherit a civilisation that is even older; and so on. In South Africa we still have relics of ecosystems which civilised humans have not yet irreparably altered. If we are to believe the story that the South African basement rocks preserve a record from the Cradle of Life, then these ecosystems rest on the rocky foundations where life began. How much truth is there in this story, is it just a myth to give our little corner of the earth an illusory sense of self-importance?
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