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[quote=Anonymous]We have had 2 South African AP and they were awesome!
Abut 5 years ago when we entered the program South African's were the "hot" country and families were battling to get them.  Now, not so much.

You have to realize there are many cultures in South Africa but primarily there are 3 most common looking to be APs.

Afrikaners are normally the white english (and afrikans) speaking; but of Dutch decent and have a thicker accent.  They are normally a bit more hard core/intense than the white English South Africans.  Work pretty hard, play very hard.  The English APs is more like an Australian type culture.  Not as up tight as, say, someone from the UK typically may be.  Once you get to know a lot of both types of girls you see there is a difference.

There are a lot of tribes in SA but most common is Zulu.  They also are native English speakers but with a harder accent to understand. We have not had one of these APs but from what we have learned is that in their culture it is more common to be physical with kids (spanking, etc) and can be very strict.  Both our SA APs worked in child care facilities and both said that it was common and accepted in the most of the non-white cultures as acceptable.

One thing to know about SA, especially for whites females, is they are naturally guarded.  South Africa is the rape capital of the world and obviously whites are a minority so while our APs were by no means racist; it is a very raced based society with blacks taking back what was taken from them hundreds of years ago during colonization (done legally as a land claim, not like just killing farmers and taking their house).  It is a disaster of country, but then again most of Africa is pretty messed up economically.

We would totally have another if we found the right candidate; only down side is you lose learning another language at home.  Both of ours had graduated university and were older, and excellent drivers. [/quote]

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