Peter Godwin skryf in 'Opinion' (Financial Mail 22/5/98): "When I flew out of SA back to New York last month, I sat next to a woman who was a recruiter for a US computer personnel placing agency. What she, and others like her, has to offer is a two-year contract and a green card. In her five-day trip she had signed up a hundred senior computer programmers. SA, she said, was now her most fecund hunting ground, overtaking Australia, Israel, and India. A quarter of her recruits were black. All of them,......,recounted the same litany of motivations that made them leave SA: security, security, and more security." Sal hulle nou gevolg word deur 'n uittog van ingenieurs? "The drum of dread is not one that I wish to beat...........But fear, it seems, is the most potent currency of our time. It has now become the way in which middle-class whites tittilate themselves into believing they live a more exotic and dashing life than that their pleasant, but on the whole unremarkable suburban existence, might in fact appear. Tales of violence have become the new pornography in which episodes gain in horror at every hushed retelling, ...........We've all done it. But it has a serious multiplier effect on emigration. In the murky world of emigration figures, where few emigrants declare their real intent, and holidaymakers simply don't return, some surprising trends are already becoming apparent. 'Nonwhite' emigration is one. Another is that Afrikaners are scarpering at about the same rate as the rest of the white population. There are many myths about Afrikaners. People overseas still tend to think about the average Afrikaner, for example. in terms of the Anglo-Boer war. They see him galloping across the veld on a trusty bush pony with nothing but a sack of biltong and a bottle of mampoer in his saddlebag, and a rifle on his back. Some Afrikaners themselves have fallen for this mythology. In reality the average Afrikaner today is probably living in Randburg, worrying about security like everyone else." Peter Godwin is die outeur van, Mukiwa-A White Boy in Africa.