Imagine-Roger

To understand how the blacks in South Africa must feel, I decided to try to think of how I would feel if the situation were reversed.  

Just try to  imagine

...healthy black women and men, dressed properly for their workout,  jogging or biking along the roads to keep themselves in good physical condition.

...hundreds of white people walking along the roadside going to work service jobs ( primarily serving black people) that pay too little for them to afford a car or bike to get to work.

..the blacks driving expensive BMWs and Range Rovers as they pass the hundreds of whites who cannot afford a car.

... those same expensive cars pulling into service stations where numerous whites, with smiles on their faces, jump to fill the tank, check the tires and wash all of the windows.
...white people politely serving and hostessing at nice restaurants that are filled with only black people, then walking home to fix a simple meal for their own family.
...numerous whites using grub hoes and weed whips to "mow" the unending roadsides.  
...groups of white manual laborers taking orders from just one black man, their boss, who graciously lets them ride in the back of his pickup when he picks them up for work.

...white women walking along the road to get to work where they will clean, cook, launder, etc. at BnBs and hotels, so their black owners can make a profit.
...the privileged, wealthy blacks surrounding their homes with electric fences, walls, bars, gates, etc. to protect themselves and their property from poor whites.
...those same blacks complaining that their country is worse every day and they don't see any possible positive outcome for their country. 

Roger

—Fortunately, we have found Botswana to be very different from S.A...

Wealth from diamond mines boosts the economy, and decades of relatively corrupt-free government results in a wealthy country.  Nice stores, restaurants, and many more businesses are common here in Gaborone.  All busy with well dressed and polite black shoppers.  One of the safest countries in Africa. 

Franshoek-Roger

We stayed with a young couple at their farm in Franschhoek, S.A.—
wine country. They have three small children and live in a rural area. The farm has been in her family since the 1600's. For the first time in South Africa there were no security fences around the house, no bars on windows, and no alarm system. We made sure to lock the door and also close the blinds! We are not sure if they are being careless, or maybe they feel that they are in a more secure area.
The harvest of apples was the job of the day with about twenty black men and women workers climbing ladders, crawling under trees, filling bags, and generally laboring to fill crates on a trailer.
They appeared to be enjoying the camaraderie of working together.
Christeli told us about one of their workers who recently came to her very upset and crying. There was not enough money
(about $50 U.S.) to pay the school fees so her child could not go. Christeli assured us that she and her husband had "sorted it out" so the crisis was averted. She went on to say that "they" just don't have the ability to plan for future expenses. She told us that South Africa has two distinct socio-economic groups (seems black and white to me!).
It is clear that those two groups have far different expectations for the way they will live and the work they will do.