You are proudly South African when ...

We gotta give a shout out to our friend Ed (our Cape Town hero) for sending us this one. Priceless!

1. You produce a R100 note instead of your driver's licence when stopped by a traffic officer
2. You can do your monthly shopping on the pavement
3. You have to hire a security guard whenever you park your car
4. To get free electricity you have to pay a connection fee of R750
5. Hijacking cars is a profession
6. You can pay your tuition fees by holding up a sign at a traffic light
7. The petrol in your tank may be worth more than your car
8. More people vote in a local reality TV show than in a local election
9. People have the most wonderful names: Christmas, Goodwill, Pretty, Wednesday, Blessing, Brilliant, Gift, Precious, Innocence and Given
10. "Now now" can mean anything from a minute to a month
11. You continue to wait after a traffic light has turned to green to make way for taxis travelling in the opposite direction
12. Travelling at 120 km/h you're the slowest vehicle on the highway
13. You're genuinely and pleasantly surprised whenever you find your car parked where you left it
14. A bullet train is being introduced, but we can't fix potholes
15. The last time you visited the coast you paid more in speeding fines and toll fees than you did for the entire holiday
16. You have to take your own linen with you if you are admitted to a government hospital
17. You have to prove that you don't need a loan to get one
18. Prisoners go on strike
19. You don't stop at a red traffic light, in case somebody hijacks your car
20. You consider it a good month if you only get mugged once
21. Rwandan refugees start leaving the country because the crime rate is too high
22. When 2 Afrikaans TV programmes are separated by a Xhosa announcement of the following Afrikaans program
23. The employees dance in front of the building to show how unhappy they are
24. The SABC advertises and shows highlights of the program you just finished watching
25. You get cold easily. Anything below 16 degrees Celsius is Arctic weather
26. You call a bathing suit a "swimming costume"
27. You know what Rooibos Tea is, even if you've never had any
28. You can sing your national anthem in four languages, and you have no idea what it means in any of them
29. You know someone who knows someone who has met Nelson Madela
30. You go to "braais" regularly, where you eat boerewors and swim, sometimes simultaneously