The Most Broken Economy on Earth

[@generic6633]

I'm Singaporean but my Mum is white-South African and every time I visit South Africa I always find it so dystopian and depressing that when you exit the airport you have to drive past miles of the poorest slums you will ever see in your life until you reach the white suburbs which have houses better than anything I've ever seen in a country like Australia or Britain.

[@shastealyomeal]

Do you live in Singapore

[@benchoflemons398]

Keep in mind that you’re in one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. Maybe try going closer to home? Have you ever driven around Manila outskirts

[@guayaquilindependiente8763]

@@benchoflemons398 Those are shocking… you leave the airport in Manila, and you’ll literally see people living under bridges. The contrasts in Manila are also shocking.

[@snomcultist189]

Yeah...

[@chestnutrice9855]

you literally live in singapore most cities on earth are dogshite dirtpoor in comparison

[@badboje6040]

You know a situation is bad in a country if one of its good things is "it has a beautiful landscape", it feels like that's the go-to compliment for failing countries.

[@justinherrera3722]

Yeah, they always say a certain country has beautiful people landscapes weather when they don’t have anything nice to say about it and it’s always the most corrupt countries that get the “beautiful and honest people” compliment

[@noodleplexium5953]

It really does though, which is why I don’t want to leave.

[@lu881]

It's often the only compliment. Like Switzerland is beautiful, and has a functioning economy. That's all it has to offer.

[@doghat1619]

It really does have an extraordinarily beautiful landscape. I was lucky enough to visit South Africa last summer for a field trip, I spent a week on a private game reserve, so thankfully didn't see any of the bad parts of the country. The only thing I did notice was that all of the "important" people at the game reserve were white, whilst the general staff like cooks and cleaners were all black, which I suppose is a hold over from the education problems apartheid caused.

[@wafflewolfs3410]

the only think I can compliment my home country on (South Africa) is its nice weather and beautiful mountains that give great views with the beautiful forests. But besides that the country is a absolute waste, There are parts where you would think the land is living after a nuclear fallout while most other parts look like complete dumps.

[@dasottonator1363]

I live in Gauteng South Africa , born after the apartheid era ended almost 30 years ago . What I can say is the only thing that the ANC government is interested in is enriching themselves and living like kings while its people fight for scraps . Most live in similar , if not worse conditions than decades ago . "Apartheid" has since become a scape goat for their shortfalls

[@victorkreig6089]

Apartheid was an easy way to keep things from getting out of hand, it is definitely used for a scapegoat. While it did have it's problems it did a VERY good job at keeping the peace for the most part which was it's entire point It still blows my mind that while people mention that it had 4 different group distinctions not many ever take the time to look and see that there were more than 4 districts. Meanwhile everyone pretends that the current state of things with the ANC is any different than if South Africa had never had the english come to it at all and the Boers went further north naturally; looking at Africa most nations are more or less in the same boat as SA so I think it would more or less be the same but with quite a bit fewer luxuries. Stay safe friend

[@playoffl36ron8]

@@victorkreig6089 found the white supremacist

[@Ugly_Peace]

Apartheid cannot be justified under any circumstances Victor given that it denied dignity to over 80% of the population. The peace you alluding to was nothing but superficial in that there can never be peace without dignity. As for ANC, we are agreed that this party just like the majority of liberation parties in Africa have failed thier people. I would also mention that the indignity that came with apartheid is actually the one that has made ANC win elections since independence because the majority of the voters today, experienced apartheid first hand and will not vote otherwise for fear of it resurfacing. South Africa will experience a government change only after the so called 'born frees' become majority voters which is some decades away.

[@victorkreig6089]

@@Ugly_Peace the ANC is a terrorist organization that murdered children And you are 100% wrong, the segregation kept the country together and in working order it is far FAR worse now than it ever was back then But that's okay I'm sure you'll have an epiphany during the next rolling blackout

[@Mr7ich7]

​@@Ugly_Peace "some decades away" south africa will be in ruins by then

[@PyroBlank]

I remember this story about Jacob Zuma. The guy was allotted funds to upgrade the security at his house to protect against the rebels. After the upgrades, some people came to see what he had done exactly. The people saw a giant swimming pool at his house. He was asked why he had a pool built. He said it was a fire safety device.

[@zinyak4443]

That's funny.😄

[@marccru]

Zuma was a beast!

[@musokortjass27]

Msholozi and his firepool

[@DragonShotzzz]

Bro spent like 600 mil on a house in dubai

[@General_Madness]

I mean, he couldn't even read numbers on a page, so I wouldn't put it past him to do stuff like that, and maybe even believe it himself

[@twodivision]

The electricity outages really fascinate me. I live in Ukraine and the russians are specifically targeting our power grid and infrastructure with the air strikes. Despite this, in most cities the outages only took about four-six hours a day and when the air defence improved the outages disappeared completely. How corrupt the government should be when they can't maintain a steady supply of electricity in a peaceful and devoloped (at least by African standards) country?

[@MaximumMatador]

Not only that, but their power utility company, Eskom, was seen as the BEST IN THE WORLD only about 20 years ago😂 How they fucked that up is beyond me

[@truthseeker-dt8zf]

​@@MaximumMatador you mean before it catered for everyone.

[@njabulozimu7702]

The truth is that South Africa is not even the top 100 most corrupt. The corruption is considered average to low, which is why we haven't been sanctioned. The real reason for power blackouts is because during apartheid only white areas had electricity and when anc took over they had the task of borrowing billions of rands to improve eskom and try to cater to the rest of the country which has not been very successful.

[@marius1300]

every European with a few braincells has left that country. They cant just replace all of that with murder and expect the electricity to come on.

[@apoorhorseabusedbycenk]

People don't understand there's 10,000's of people leeching off the grid with shotty wiring

[@supermegaunderrateduploade6686]

As a South African, this video is 100% facts! I think the only way to remove most of the corruption is to vote for any party other than the ANC. The ANC has become too comfortable. But what do I know, I’m apart of the unemployed youth in South Africa and my main goal is to leave this country with my parents and friends!

[@frederickvonabel6349]

It seems like we all want to leave. Everyone in my immediate circle is going to college/University just so they can get qualifications that allow them to emigrate. Mainly to Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc

[@fbi3526]

There is no future here so the only option is to leave maybe one day this country will succeed but time with tell when it will happen

[@pietvanderwalt6381]

Yes but also we must not vote for the EFF they would make the country even worse

[@LindaBobbert]

The IQ required to work any job in civilization is 85 per project 100,000. The average black IQ is 70 in sub saharan africa. Something like 80% of black sub saharans are mentally disabled. Its really that simple, they didnt' even have the wheel before contact. And remember IQ is majority hereditary, more genetic than height.

[@supermegaunderrateduploade6686]

@TheGlassesPro I will also vote when the time comes but as I said I’m avoiding the ANC. My parents will also avoid the ANC even though we are apart of the black population! DA seems to be a decent choice and the EFF is just a choice I don’t think will sit well.

[@corymorimacori1059]

“A bad economy and weak governments meant that the people are a little unhappy.”

[@adams.2407]

So when a small angry man with a silly mustache came along, and said that he could fix everything, the people loved him

[@valco56techmore91]

He’s spitting facts

[@welwitschia3756]

has hoser deleted future of Pakistan video?

[@snomcultist189]

@Adam S. ever heard of the EFF

[@beans00001]

I wonder who the next mustache man is going to be

[@RYNCANTAIM]

Fun fact! After Nelson Mandela’s release. He visited Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city. To thank them for their independent support a decade earlier by being the first to offer him complete safety if he ever needed it. During his visit ,He was brought to a street in the city centre with his name on it. When he asked why they had named a street after him they answered by pointing out a building on the street and saying “that used to be the South African embassy, we thought that it would be really funny that anytime they had to send something out with their address on it they had to write your name every single time, including letters from the South African government” And that’s the funniest shit I’ve ever heard

[@hoangquanle3310]

BASED

[@AmericanStatesofAmerica]

​@@hoangquanle3310 supporting a terrorist is based to you

[@kuebby]

Oh my, that is amazing. Way better than just, "to honor you," it was "to embarrass your enemies."

[@mtssmrkov]

In Czech Republic the russian embassy is on the "Heroes of Ukraine" street lol

[@neonik6204]

White people jokes!!

[@TianHenryFerreira]

As a South African I wanna say this is an amazing explanation of our problems and is spot on.

[@jubileemkhwanazi436]

I agree but the way he said Soweto had my traumatized 😮😂

[@shiv88806]

@@jubileemkhwanazi436and the way he said Ramaphosa😂

[@what_if_this_happened...]

Vote pls

[@nokia_eq23]

​@@shiv88806 and Afrikaaans

[@PunkDogCreations]

No.

[@mathieujoubert7178]

I’m South African, and I am so embarrassed about how disappointing our land is. Especially seeing how other people see our land.

[@kumeater]

Wait till they see that "true" africans (yk what I mean) get payed higher than whites

[@dawsonparker1685]

I've heard people praise the great open plains of Indiana while I get awestruck by mountains If you live there, you're just use to it i guess, new things excite people

[@aynrandfan7454]

I am visiting Cape Town in March is it that bad? Looks ok to me lol

[@kumeater]

@@aynrandfan7454 the nature here is amazing, if you ever go on another trip to Sa then you should go to vaalwater

[@aynrandfan7454]

@@kumeater I only have 5 days in cape town before boarding a 21 cruise around west coast of Africa up to Barcelona … next time I will visit the interior and the national parks for sure

[@besuto14]

As a South African who grew up in the 2000s I think it's valuable for my peers to experience a breakdown of South African national dynamics from an external independent source like this because this is as honest and factual of a review of our country we will get, what is served in the media is nothing but outrage fuel and political lies, our home is messed up and we need to be this informed if we hope to even try fixing it.

[@madhavmathur4008]

You guys need revolution

[@jimduffield7822]

@@madhavmathur4008 They already had one, the ANC is the revolutionary government.

[@TheStickman419]

@@madhavmathur4008 they already had a revolution. More than one if you count the white South Africans

[@kyakuwbengui9529]

Spot on im from Zimbabwe but I studied in sa its like a second home to me

[@fedorrussel3810]

Don't loose hope in democracy! if your politicians fail you, it is time to take the matters to the streets

[@Kraven11]

As a South african i am very glad to see someone describe our problems so well

[@chrispy3369]

The fact that I started typing this, had my power cut off then retyped this 2 hours later to post it, just shows how "great" my country is.

[@Tokolos]

I’m off in one hour sigh.

[@mykel9834]

@@Tokolos POV : your power stays on till 3am

[@tirebiter1680]

A company that sells electricity to its customers, knows they have to buy the product whether they want to or not can make their slogan "nobodys perfect"

[@NAT-turners-Revenge]

💩😳

[@Ghibli_73]

Same thing right now.

[@laur83]

as a south african i’m always curious to see how international media outlets and creators will cover our country and i’m impressed by the accuracy and balanced viewpoint this video provides. it is a really sad thing that over here we have some of the wealthiest and poorest of people co-existing within the echoes of wider inequality. it does create tension and our tenuous political landscape only heightens that.

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

I'd hardly call it balanced. The narrative around the history of South Africa is quite astoundingly anti-white. Firstly, South Africa wasn't a country before white Europeans arrived, it was just a vast swathe of land. Largely unoccupied. Then to highlight "inequality" after white Europeans built everything and made the country rich-- why would other Africans and people living on neighboring land be entitled to what white Europeans had built? There would be no "inequality" if white Europeans hadn't arrived and built everything because everyone would still be dirt poor and living in mud huts. There's now been 30 years of black rule and "inequality" hasn't changed and the basic infrastructure the whites built has fallen apart. This despite the fact that when the whites were in power they were subject to sanctions and economic aggression from all quarters, while during black rule it's been the opposite-- the west has been desperate to invest and make the country a success.

[@DonquaviousGreen]

The weirdest thing is talking to tourists who visit the wealthy parts of Cape Town, and assume that the rest of this god-forsaken country is exactly like that, when in reality, most of us black folk live in squalor

[@laur83]

@@DonquaviousGreen exactly. they’ll avoid those areas like the plague and not get the full picture of what’s really going on here

[@dabassixs1410]

this is the exact response i was going to give. i live in Joburg as well. i still do believe this country can become great one day. the Rally will occur one day in the Future. be Blessed All!

[@NdifrekeOtu-d9v]

Xenophobia against other Africans is as a result of this frustration.

[@siddd5745]

Though I haven’t been back home in almost 10 years, the simple fact that we had to pay for a private security company to act as police in our neighborhood sounds super dystopian to me

[@frederickvonabel6349]

You're one of the lucky ones who got out. Hopefully I'll join you once I graduate

[@TheStickman419]

Lol... In Nigeria you we have vigilantes that we pay for our protection. But they usually last no less than 2 months as they either clash with our very corrupt police or kill some random dude... Yeah...

[@frederickvonabel6349]

@@TheStickman419 Nigeria never ceases to amaze me

[@bompingdatwomper]

That happened to some places in america

[@zenxel]

@@frederickvonabel6349 Yeah. It's shameful but the only thing my country's government excels at, is to find new and creative ways to disappoint its citizens.

[@Meme_lord69420.]

Im white south african and our road minister said keep the pothole (holes in roads) because it learnse our drivers to drive and our water minister said make the dams smaller so they stay full (bruh like what the hell we all in africa is doomed) except for one town orania which has started solar power and is almost ready to leave eskom and become eco-friendly

[@Meme_lord69420.]

And also people dont want to work i litteraly gave a black homeless person a free meal and he threw it on the ground and said he wants money (so i drove away)

[@trevorharmon1]

​@@Meme_lord69420.that's typical behavior

[@esethux5806]

​@@Meme_lord69420. Brvh I'm a black African... I live in a shack if you have a job you can give me I'll gladly take it I have a Bcom degree management information system... you can't say we are lazy...yet you gave a homeless "Phara" (junkie) food...that guy don't want food...he wants his woonga and his crack...

[@FreedomofspeechSensor-zu8ip]

Sounds like the leftist in California! "Your tax dollars is our money! Stop noticing"

[@BrandonSmrz]

​@@Meme_lord69420.Same thing happened to me, I was livid to say the least. The sad truth is those people don't want food they want beer or rocks.

[@Mamorufumio]

It’s sad when an alien ship hovering over one of their major city’s only makes things slightly worst

[@georgerockwell6124]

District nine?

[@admech590]

Oh my god you're right...Jesus that movie is scary in how it portrays south African corruption. Yeah, shits still fucked as it was before the slimes came in that movie. The aliens would've been better off landing in Mauritius 😂

[@greywolf7422]

​@@georgerockwell6124Yep

[@Mamorufumio]

@@admech590 also something to keep in mind, because of the aliens there was likely a surge of new forms of income in the area, granted most of it not legal

[@thecapeofnohope6018]

Also 1/6 of the population has HIV and the ANC has sometimes made this crisis worse Edit: 13.7% for the whole population, 19.5% for those aged 15-49

[@LiterallyRyan_Gosling]

I have a friend in South Africa, and in his words: "Our government is a bunch of corrupt idiots running an idiot country."

[@philsmith4218]

That's just not true!! A circus run by clowns - yes!!

[@0FFICERPROBLEM]

That's most developed countries too lol, it's just less fucked, more covert and higher stakes (white collar crime on much bigger scales)

[@TeikonGom]

Black rule in a nutshell.

[@Raccist]

​@@TeikonGomsomeone didn't watch the video

[@TeikonGom]

@@Raccist Someone didn't open their eyes.

[@oleksandrzahv4668]

Just a note, 2-Hour loadshedding isn't a thing anymore, in the 'burbs or the townships. It's typically between 8 and 12 hours a day now - only getting worse. If you don't have an inverter/generator or solar on your premises, you're basically screwed.

[@cgmason7568]

Hopefully some NGO sells solar systems for cheap

[@rizkyadiyanto7922]

@@cgmason7568 china

[@cgmason7568]

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 definitely not an NGO and definitely has too much involvement in Africa

[@lu881]

*INTERMITTENTLY. That's an important fact that South Africans like to omit when complaining about loadshedding to foreigners.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

The ANC inherited Eskom with the most reliable electricity and the least expensive electricity in the world. And now you have electricity for less than half the day.

[@el_naif]

South Africa is following the Haiti trail. They followed every recommendation on the anticolonial guidebook, and you can see the results.

[@el_naif]

@Tigran-Abazyan Sadly, it is related. The wide range of matters that ended up being associated with colonialism makes people question if “Maths are racist” and so on. Madness.

[@blacknwhitebirb]

As a South African it's really depressing what's happened to our nation, I fought in the Border War and every day I question if it was worth it. The nation has become to corrupt and violent that I eventually bought a shotgun just for my safety, no person in a good nation should have to sleep with a loaded shotgun under there bed fearing for there lives that they might be murdered in there sleep.

[@Woistwahrheit]

I agree. This country has gone down a deep hole

[@blacknwhitebirb]

@@Woistwahrheit Yeah it's managed to go through rock bottom

[@IllinoisCountryball]

Wow is it really that bad there? I wish the best of luck to your country, I could never imagine what people living in South Africa have to experience due a to corrupt and racist government

[@LindaBobbert]

Yup its a shame about the hordes of low IQ basketballs

[@fbi3526]

Well i want to leave the country when im done with high school but i still love this country even if we have a shit government the country is a beautiful place with great people but is controlled by thugs

[@iamfred5723]

it depresses me as a South African to see something like this. I am incredibly well off, and I go to school with kids who have next to nothing. The state of our country disgusts me

[@samuelross9884]

South Africa should divide into its constituent populations, not necessarily white and black, but those who will work hard to better their land and those who will not work hard, but want things for free. The ANC should be outlawed - they have brought us all to this!

[@mykel9834]

@@samuelross9884 You see Sam people like you don't understand the severity of what you are actually saying, if it weren't for the like-minded people of the ANC, we would have ended up with a country that couldn't even be called one anymore, but then again they are the reason we face most of our problems today, but we cannot put the blame solely on them alone. And what your suggesting here that we should 'divide' when we are already so divided...You my friend deserve a Darwin Award.

[@jgw9990]

​@Mykel Putting the blame on the most skilled and productive part of the population is the Zimbabwe strategy. Worked great for them... South Africa is sliding toward similar policies though, and murders of whites are increasing leading them to leave resulting in brain drain.

[@419prince]

​@@samuelross9884 this retarded way of thinking is what is keeping south africa behind, which country has improved by "dividing"?

[@samuelross9884]

@@mykel9834 Thank you. I understand this will be difficult, but the end in sight is worth it.

[@name0fnames-j7h]

My dad immigrated from South Africa and it does suck. Poverty is at every corner and crime is in its shadow. Really gives me an appreciation for the peace and prosperity present in my home country of Canada.

[@MrWeenuk21]

again you are lucky to be in a certain place in canada. most people in canada are poor lol

[@jeremiedubois3038]

@@MrWeenuk21what?? You need some perspective in what poverty is. Canadas median population are INCREDIBLY well off. “mOsT cAnAdIaNs ArE pOoR”

[@ali99_82]

You're white i presume

[@wildfire9280]

hehe housing goes brrrrr

[@martianproductions997]

@@MrWeenuk21 OK but being poor in SA hits a little different

[@jakes9711]

South-Africa is an example of the solution being the the problem and the problem being the solution.

[@5k3m.]

Elaborate

[@capital_of_texas]

@@5k3m. White people

[@dyawr]

The "solution" is certainly not oppressing vast majority of the population, throwing them into a far worse state than today, just so a minority can live well & the country will look better in some statistics... Bc that was the problem before, which needed solving.

[@alanjacob1488]

Solution=white people and Problem=blacks? I agree lol

[@andilegumede2481]

​@@dyawrThank you. Someone in the comments section with some sense and proper context.

[@kempolar9768]

As a south African born Kiwi, there is a LOT of reasons why my entire family left to come to NZ instead. If you have the money you get out. I was way too young to understand at the time but the stories from my dad, my sisters and their families has very much cemented my lack of interest in moving back to my home country.

[@lusandantintili8668]

The problem is demographically most people who have that money to get out and can weather the red tape of immigrating (favorable passports and other resources like family with similar access) is also inherently unequal, so for the majority of us South Africans (esp black & poor) simply don't have the option to leave or even rebuild

[@PropagandalfderWeiße]

@@lusandantintili8668 So at least the inequality within south africa gets less

[@humansolarian]

​@propagandalf123 thats adorably naive, not investing in a country will always lead to further inequality especially for ghe ppl who have no fighting chance to get out. Its the market.

[@bennichols1113]

Glad to have you. Just please don't vote for greens and commies or nz will go down the drain as well.

[@bulelanibotman]

mxm! we all know why they left

[@glimpsee7941]

As a South African, our country is dead. With the constant electrical blackout, to the extent we sometimes only get 10hrs of electricity a day, we cannot do business on an international platform

[@MrXandervm]

How is the ANC still in power, if there is this tangible legit problem that other parties can point to? Don't they lose popularity because the country is stil in shambles 30 years after apartheid? I mean, all i had to do if i was the head of a political party in south africa would be:"Look at the daily blackouts. Thats the fault of the government. My party can fix it" and then i'd get a lot of votes right? I'm not from south africa, so i don't know a lot about it. How has the ANC managed to stay in power? Is it just because of the popularity of their former leader Nelson Mandela?

[@jzjzjzj]

@@MrXandervm black votes are the majority, blacks love ANC because it too is black.

[@jzjzjzj]

@@MrXandervm they dont care about fixing it, they only care about their hate of apartheid and whites.

[@glimpsee7941]

​@@MrXandervm Because the DA doesnt want the number 1 position. They know they will be blamed for the ANCs failure like they blame the ANC for apartheids failures. The loadshedding crisis has been a problem for nearly 20 years and will not be solved in the next 5 and probably not even 10 years. The ANC has screwed out country for at least two election cycles. So even if the DA won, they wouldnt be able to save country in time, all the while ANC is now blaming them.

[@glimpsee7941]

@Hudson Hamman For the top 10% of our country, those that can afford R40 000 for solar or R25 000 for batteries, sure. For the rest of who earn under 10kpm there isnt.

[@ghostnation22]

As a South African my self you know your country is doing well when most peoples goal is to leave it

[@ik2254]

I think that's 90% of countries in today's world.

[@IllinoisCountryball]

@@ik2254 90%??

[@ik2254]

@@IllinoisCountryball 90% of residents in the world want to move somewhere else. Like, literally, anywhere apart from Canada, US, Japan and North-western europe people live way more poorer

[@IllinoisCountryball]

@@ik2254 I think it’s more like 40% - 50%

[@ik2254]

@@IllinoisCountryball COUNTRIES, not people. There are ~200 countiries in the world. And only like 20 are decent: Japan, Canada, USA, France, GB, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Australia, New Zeland. Maybe I forgot a couple, but everywhere else is a poor shithole, where you make pennies on dollar that you would make, in USA, for example. OR a dictatorships with questionable future, like Saudi Arabia and UAE or Kuwait.

[@theprodigalbum]

I love your off the cuff and creative, and comedic style. Definitely makes learning the history way more enjoyable.

[@lukevanwyngaardt6584]

As a South African, this is all straight up facts. Things are really going south for us, but at least more people around the world are seeing what's going on.

[@notnaanton630]

​@@caleb-- And the not white?

[@beano6992]

@@caleb-- I’m one that emigrated out of there along with my family. Best decision we ever made. We took our work ethic/skills elsewhere and is currently living a life we never dreamed of. South Africa will be the next Zimbabwe mark my words

[@abrqzx]

@@beano6992 you mean Next Venezuela?

[@notnaanton630]

@@caleb-- thats an opinion...

[@notnaanton630]

@@caleb-- So tell me, please: What have they been in the past? Suppressed by a racist white regime?

[@lucasthegreat122]

I am from Brazil, which is South Africa's biggest trade partner in Latin America, this is a sad reality of such a beautiful African country. I can't believe so many people in there have voted for ANC not knowing it is to blame for the most part of corruption in South Africa, and there are also political lies, really poor shanty towns, unbelievably high crime rates, and many other issues they should fix. How unfortunately dystopian.

[@jasonhaven7170]

The DA keep pushing out Black politicians, and the EFF are just plain racist. Most South Africans are Black, they want to see Black South Africans in charge. When the DA starts supporting Black South African politicians, Black South Africans will vote for them.

[@lucasthegreat122]

@@jasonhaven7170 This also hurts to hear, but sadly, it is true, too.

[@jasonhaven7170]

@@lucasthegreat122 If the DA tried harder to be supportive of their Black members, they could win the election.

[@TheNizzah1]

Most of South Africa’s population is really poor/unemployed but they are net beneficiaries of state subsidies or social welfare. As in, they have to deal with a shitty life as a result of the corruption and maladministration but they get free money every month. So they reason that if this welfare went away, they’d have nothing so they reward the party giving them money.

[@Fat89789]

But you should be able to identify with our issues because we have more or else the same. Racism, poverty, corruption, etc no?

[@Hyperion9700]

This video was just fantastic. As a South African , I appreciate how you spoke about the problems of the past and the problems of the present. No one ever seems to talk about the corruption or loadshedding. The Zuma HIV joke was the cherry on top. Your research is impeccable and more people need to see your content.

[@TaigaXOXO]

Hi Kirari!

[@victorkreig6089]

I like to think that he covertly assimilates himself into online communities based where the next video topic is and just slowly learns by osmosis until it's second nature to him

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

He didn't speak about the targeted white farmer murders and torture though. Or the necklacing.

[@victorkreig6089]

@@cockoffgewgle4993 why would he, it's an economics video

[@cockoffgewgle4993]

@@victorkreig6089 It isn't. It's a general video about South Africa.

[@escaped_experiment8890]

I’m a South African and even though my country is so incredibly messed up. I won’t ever leave. South Africa has it’s many many problems but I honestly believe that there is still hope. Change is possible. One of the reasons I love South Africa is for our many cultures which makes us the rainbow nation even though it comes at a cost. It is actually incredible to see how different cultures and traditions merged to create new ones and if I ever leave my country I would truly miss it. Maybe I’m an idealist plagued by wishful thinking but I believe that once the scars has healed from Apartheid ( if it ever truly will) then our country can become better. South Africa has untapped potential besides our natural resources. Bottomline I love my country with al it’s issues 🇿🇦🐘 (Also great video. It accurately summarises our current issues and also the history behind it. I’m thoroughly impressed💕)

[@aapworldwide]

Word. If you feel like you have a purpose, that brings more happiness than any artifical happiness that monetary success brings. A lot of western countries have an individualistic culture. Which while it has its benefits, can bring a lack of community and loneliness. That's where the sense of community of the African culture prevails. As someone from Nepal I relate a lot to the issues faced by the African countries because we have a lot in common. We are on the right trajectory. In the future, things will become better

[@mcbatetens]

SA rainbow is only colorful for whities ❤

[@srilakshmidevanathan8334]

​@@aapworldwidetrue. Nepal is on Good trajectory and improving too. It will be a middle income country soon. Love to Nepal from India

[@aapworldwide]

@@srilakshmidevanathan8334 yo likewise, much love from Nepal to India. There has been a lot of development within India in the past 30 years. Ofcourse there are setbacks and difficulties every now and then, but yall are also on the right trajectory

[@andreprinsloo3572]

I'm with you. I'm a blue-collar tradesman who had a job offer signed and sealed with a manufacturing company in NZ; all the boxes were ticked, visa was done and I was ready to leave (I had even resigned from my job) but when it came down to it and I thoroughly examined everything I stood to again against what I knew I would lose; I found myself unwilling to leave. It's a heart thing, man. Fortunately, the SA employer agreed to give me my old job back and although I regret having disappointed the company in NZ - I feel that this country needs people like us (technically skilled, valuable to industry, etc) to stay and play a part in fixing this mess more than these other developed countries need us. I love this country and I feel that many other more prosperous, "western" nations offer way less in terms of sheer diversity of human experience than this one. Other places have monopoly/wealth inequality too, read the comments. Other places have corruption too. Let's fix the inequality. What the media doesn't always show is that a vast number of South Africans across all different cultural lines, stand together in unity - smiling and jocular whilst grinding through difficult circumstances every single day with the "grin and bear it" stoicism and dynamism that makes our workers so highly sought after across the globe. #IChooseToStay

[@leaDR356]

Petition for hoser to revisit some videos 1 India 2 Vietnam 3 Russia 4 Egypt

[@spyrex3988]

india is a $hitwhole

[@welwitschia3756]

has hoser deleted his future of Pakistan video?

[@leaDR356]

@@spyrex3988 That's incredibly racist

[@leaDR356]

@@welwitschia3756 I think not

[@welwitschia3756]

​@@leaDR356 I swear the video had a thumbnail like 'future Indus superpower' now I can't see it anywhere.

[@tatimilena4017]

As a mozambican who grew up visiting SA freequently its really sad seeing what's becoming of this country, last time I was there was last year and I was shocked when we had power outages basically all day. We used to go to south africa because of the better conditions compared to Mozambique, but now we have to avoid it because of the general lack of safety. Still think it's a beautiful country that has so much potential, but with the amount of corruption idk man...

[@morriscolenbrander1395]

How is the safety and economic development in Mozambique? Is it bad/getting worse, or good, improving, still in development?

[@tatimilena4017]

@morriscolenbrander1395 Hi, sorry , I'm only seeing this reply today. I feel like both safety and economic development have been worsening over the years. Mozambique was never the safest country ever, but I know that I can walk around, unlike in South Africa, where you need to go everywhere by car. But in the last few years, it's slowly been worsening. In terms of the economy, life is getting more and more expensive, and nothing is being done about it. The minimum wage in this country is a bit less than 100 bucks, its sad cause how are people suposed to make a living with the price of everything skyrocketing and with less than a 100 dollars every month.

[@morriscolenbrander1395]

@@tatimilena4017 hey, thanks for replying. Sad to hear that... I hope it won't go in the same direction as South Africa. I hope that many African countries start to fulfill their potential in the near future

[@drakZes]

We supply you with electricity. Whilst you have power we don't.

[@chaosXP3RT]

Every country in the world is beautiful.

[@bubbleboy3000]

I'm South African and this is a fun fact:Everyone outside of South Africa didn't know what load shedding was before watching this video (BTW: Noel Deyzel is the greatest thing to come out of South Africa)

[@Kadoo70]

Not true as when I visit my family in Pakistan we would also experience load shedding regularly, we even call it that.

[@jasonreed7522]

Load shedding is used everywhere, just not to the insane degree of South Africa. As an electrical engineer the basics of load shedding is that if generation and load are unequal then the voltage and frequency of the grid will deviate from nominal which will damage anything plugged into it. Normally you keep this balance by adjusting generation to match load, but if all available generation is maxed out and load keeps increasing the only thing you can do is shed some load, aka cut people off. In the interest of equity you move the areas disconnected around so that no individual is cut off for 6 hrs and instead everyone just gives up 15min which is alot more tolerable. (With some load like hospitals being declared critical and never being disconnected) The main difference between a functional grid and a disfunctional grid is that a functional one will almost never have to do any load shedding. (Special events like major heat waves or the Texas Icestorm can cause massive increases in demand, and possibly reduce available generation and this leads to load shedding, which is also called "rolling blackouts" and is the name most Americans are familiar with.)

[@icetrip2417]

​@@jasonreed7522 true

[@AK70FORYOU]

I only heard about it in a video on the texas power failure

[@Vigilant69]

Welcome to Bangladesh ya twat

[@oateesplays3866]

Tbh, im glad that he's made a video on SA, Its tragic that the economy is bad but its such a beautiful country, as someone who was born and lives there

[@DaUP_.]

As a current resident of South Africa, load-shedding has now reached around 4 hours in most parts of the country and is still increasing. Love the video :D

[@victorkreig6089]

If Mandela wasn't so evil he would have made sure you guys built a couple more nuclear plants, Koeberg despite being on the smaller side puts out a good amount of energy and with 6-7 of them I doubt you'd have rolling blackouts What gets me is there have been what 5 other location proposals and yet none of them have gone anywhere?

[@victorkreig6089]

@theglassespro4557 not it isn't, most people don't know a damn thing about nuclear power and many people have used that fact to scare them into staying away from it for nearly a century now.

[@Deontjie]

Now it is about ten hours.

[@DaUP_.]

@@Deontjie oof

[@_blank-_]

@@victorkreig6089 South Africa could rely on solar power too. It's sad how nuclear has been demonized.

[@northeasteurope1256]

Why does hoser always make a video factual yet interesting and very funny. Very nice.

[@RedRocketthefirst]

Subs?

[@supersardonic1179]

@@RedRocketthefirst Yes, why does this content creator make good content? Not even science can solve this riddle.

[@M3l_0N666]

Well, it's so so, as there is actually allot more intricate details that actually determine the why's of it all. It's not at all the assumption that whites are withholding but rather that Africans are clueless at creating wealth. Some do but even they won't share because despite them all talking about "their people" if given wealth, they actually don't give a shit about their "brothers and sisters"

[@icetrip2417]

He's smart

[@moonstryder1740]

Factual? The man is biased as hell.

[@MrJairforce]

My parents were Kenya diplomatic reps to SA in the early 2000s so i spent a lot of time in Pretoria and back then it was incredible to me how they had such efficient energy supply all day (for context, parts of Kenya at the time had horrible blackouts that could last for nearly a week). After nearly 2 decades it’s incredible how those roles have reversed, now i barely get 15min blackouts in Kenya while SA gets 8hr load shedding. SA is such a beautiful country with such incredible potential to be Africa’s greatest country - The talent and capital are right there, they just have to figure out the fallout of Apartheid in a more sensible way.

[@joe_lubinda]

Most countries in Africa are moving forward even Zambia where I'm from had this issue way back and in January 2023 planned blackouts in Zambia were back but lasted only a month then everything went back to normal while in SA I read somewhere that they'll have load shedding for a few more years to come. What's funny is how pompous South Africans are online yet their country is sinking.

[@Swaggedoutshorty]

South Africa had at least a few decades head-start on Kenya in many ways and still is failing. A very depressing example for the world.

[@stewie3k_]

​@Joe problem with our electricity, is that there is a single company that runs all our electricity and due to years of corruption, mismanagement and most importantly very little actual repairs done to any substations. The substations break down very often because there was no servicing done for 20+ years. Further, while i cant confirm there is currently probably a bunch of corporate sabotage from the ANC and probably other political groups to use as a scapegoat. Doesnt help that all 3 of the top political parties suck, and the only one that the 4th, who in the areas actually do stuff are racist... its all fucked

[@lu881]

It's called "The Great Regression"

[@lu881]

​@@joe_lubinda those that are pompous are usually the ones who vote for the ones destroying our country

[@cazb5056]

I live in South Africa. No joke... When the loadshedding stuff came up and the screen went black for a while I actually thought loadshedding was happening.

[@zanemarshall9765]

I just came back from SA. Joberg in particular and you fail to stress the crime. Part of the reason the rail system doesn't work is because people have stolen the tracks for scrap. They have completely stopped caring about the impact of their actions and only think about the next meal or in some cases new trainers.

[@leigh4326]

New trainers? This isn’t America 😅 we have illegal foreigners who steal them to sell them for food! The poor are desperate and I don’t think mocking them makes you a good judge of character

[@abrqzx]

@Lets Play Minecraft I’m glad that the Philippines doesn’t have this issue. Philippines literally have a new Japanese created underground subway to be opened in 2026😂

[@marccru]

Sounds like Detroit

[@zanemarshall9765]

@@marccru worse way worse

[@orboakin8074]

I am Nigerian and agree 100% with you on South Africa. They are a failing state and they have no one to blame but themselves. They inherited a country with everything lined up for greater success but are turning into Zimbabwe 2.0. They have no excuse. Botswana is literally next to them, has less resources but is politically stable and has better economics and infrastructure (they can actually keep the lights on!)

[@akhonazasembo3016]

The grass isn't always greener on the other side life has changed in both Botswana n SA since the puppet presidents took power

[@icetrip2417]

Zimbabwe such a disgrace looting of public funds is rampant

[@Dracon7601]

Not really, Botswana arguably had the benefit of being unnoticed so competent leaders could develop the country, Botswana didn't have the same brain drain that South Africa did. Also as a Nigerian it's not as if we can talk.

[@schadenfreude000]

@@Dracon7601 People always ignore the brain drain aspect. I used to work in a small research clinic in a hospital in Australia, and we had two South African nurses and a Mozambican microbiologist with a PhD. Apparently, for every skilled worker that leaves South Africa, about 10 other people lose their jobs. It's hard to keep the lights on when all the engineers have emigrated.

[@orboakin8074]

@@Dracon7601 Actually, Botswana was not "unnoticed." What made them such a better country pre and post colonialism is that their culture and socio-political style was similar to what the British had i.e. more representative form of traditional government with Chiefs having to be elected and rule via merit and good will of the people. That ensured that stuff like meritocracy and even individual rights were upheld. Also, they were almost assimilated into apartheid/white-ruled Southern Africa, especially for their diamonds, until their leaders actually asked the British to take colonial rule of their country because the British were a far better option than apartheid Afrikaans (Look it up, I am not lying). And as I mentioned, their socio-cultural way of life was already similar to what the British had and when they started imposing stuff like democracy, capitalism, etc, Botswana adopted to all of them very well compared to many other African colonies. That is why till today, they remain one of the most politically and economically stable countries in Africa.

[@marcusmoonstein242]

Twenty years ago I was warning my fellow South Africans that we could be the next Zimbabwe. But it was the boom times of the early 2000's and nobody listened to me. Now they listening ... and emigrating.

[@kennypowers2341]

@@londonspade5896not necessarily

[@matthew1882]

@@kennypowers2341 we're already just Southern Zimbabwe mate.

[@angelvoxmusic]

Same here. In the 90's when the gov started dishing out power left right and centre, I told everyone I could that they were overloading the grid and not building new stations to increase our power output to match the increasing demand. So many told me I didn't know what I was talking about because I was only a teenager. Well..... the rest is history.

[@frogfinance4605]

Helped cause Zimbabwe, saw it and didn't prepare for it, then became it. There you go

[@zandikhetwayo7444]

We will never be as bad as Zimbabwe😭

[@mackmphahlele9511]

The worse part of South Africa, the fragmented ruling party disaster :ANC/EFF/COPE /UDM/MK/Mbhazima Party/Duduzana Zuma Party. U see,large scope of madness, members of the same party naming themselves differently to facilitate moving from one group to another.

[@breademperor3729]

as a South African I can say our country is life on hardcore mode

[@beaucaspar3990]

Are you from Joburg by any chance? And are you one of the 2 thirds of the youth population who is unemployed?

[@lu881]

Lol not really man.

[@phumlanindlovu5653]

🤣💔 bro!!! we being baked

[@ndzululwazimangqalaza7880]

@@beaucaspar3990 the unemployment rate in South Africa is truly insane. It's only a matter of time until South Africa becomes a failed state

[@breademperor3729]

@@ndzululwazimangqalaza7880 my cousin can't ride 2km to work bc his neighbour did that and got his bike and phone stolen after being held at gunpoint

[@Tankcommander518]

As a south african I agree with a lot of this truly sad to see my nation like this

[@bumbobaggins]

As a South African what is your opinion on zimbabweans? Every time I go to twitter it seems like yall want me dead.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

​@@bumbobaggins south africa hog wild man

[@marquiseco.]

@@bumbobaggins I can answer that for you: We honestly think that your country is making a recovery, after Mugabe, but it still has a long way to go.

[@what_did_he_sayyyy]

@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Definitely better than you

[@dannyarcher6370]

@@bumbobaggins Black Africans have never been warm to one another. Count yourself lucky that you haven't been doused with petrol and burnt to death yet.

[@LuckasMS]

The sad thing is that this is a vicious cycle of sorts, the insane crime rate coupled with structural problems make everyone willing and capable enough to solve the country's problems to leave the first chance they have and it ends up never getting better. Populism + a largely uneducated populace is a curse that can be as destructive as wars

[@victorkreig6089]

and now you know why eastern europe is in limbo and cannot get out

[@peppermeat8059]

and the government then heavily taxes the working class (which powers governments) and the people who cant work/ dont want to work. They get free money from the government and some go out commiting crimes just for a little bit of money which affects us

[@TheOwneroftheIC]

It should be noted that the Bantu are NOT native to South Africa, and in fact moved into the area AFTER the Boers did.

[@juniormokwena2696]

Lies

[@juniormokwena2696]

The bantus were here before the dutch

[@TheOwneroftheIC]

@@juniormokwena2696 any that were there before the Dutch were gome before the Dutch left. They came, decimated the Bushmen, and left. The only force more destructive to South Africa were the British.

[@zentodale]

​@@juniormokwena2696actually no. The Bantu are native to Southern Africa but they are NOT indigenous. They genocided the indigenous people and were stopped by the colonialist's expansion. The land does not in any shape or form belong to the Bantu people. The black man is Southern Africa's last colonizers.

[@zentodale]

​@@juniormokwena2696nope

[@frederickvonabel6349]

Hoser is wrong on the extent of our power cuts. We normally get around 6 hours of no electricity a day and that's if one's local substation hasn't malfunctioned because when that happens you can be left without any electricity for up to 20 hours. A part of my local area (in the nation's capital city mind you) didn't have any electricity for 2 days recently and this was in a leafy middle class suburb.

[@mykel9834]

Strange I'm from a middle class suburb to and I only ever see the lights go off for 2, if it's a good day one whole hour. sucks to be you I guess

[@frederickvonabel6349]

@@mykel9834 Bro I know people who live in areas that don't get load shedding at all. It varies

[@yulyeong9220]

​@Frederick Von Abel I think maybe the grid is run at half capacity but it doesn't mean the load shedding is. Power maybe off in some area for 6 hours but they employ other methods to save the other 6 hours of energy

[@mykel9834]

@@frederickvonabel6349 aren't they off the grid?

[@beaucaspar3990]

How can the power situation be that bad in your country?

[@Speedyzun]

As a South African citizen I this 100% correct

[@Bruno_bm151]

It was better when the boers owned it

[@Lando-kx6so]

​@@Bruno_bm151 only better for the white population not the majority at all

[@frederickvonabel6349]

@@Bruno_bm151 The ideal scenario is the Boers never coming into power and the country remaining under British control. There would still be a degree of discrimination but it would be that of the comparatively less harsh Rhodesian model. We might have even kept the non racial Cape franchise system.

[@C4Cole05]

@@frederickvonabel6349 It would be better that way than full on Apartheid but it would be even better if everyone was equal from the start, if we still had all the infrastructure then SA might have developed into a resource super power instead of stagnating like we are now

[@슬라바우크라이나헤로]

​@@LindaBobbert what

[@Bubbleskittymaster]

i met a guy from south Africa and he was joining the marines corps. he told me some of the shit he had seen while living that and my jaw was on the floor.

[@dannyarcher6370]

Most first worlders think we're lying or exaggerating.

[@frederickvonabel6349]

Yeah not surprising. Murder and rape are so common here that people are super desensitised to it and we normally go 6 hours with no power in my area (a middle class suburb)

[@Bubbleskittymaster]

@@dannyarcher6370 one I remember is he told me his cousin with set on fire alive right in front of him. Put a tire around him and set him a light.

[@dannyarcher6370]

@@Bubbleskittymaster Oh, so he was black?

[@Bubbleskittymaster]

@@dannyarcher6370 yep and he was huge like 6 ft 6.

[@alisharosamusic]

As a South African , this is so true .So sad ,

[@i.lungsmaras7244]

As a South African...comments like this, and aa couple of hundred others on here... Tell me exactly what a HIGHLY IGNORANT POPULATION WE ARE... Don['t know much about the state of the world, the state of other countries corruption, how crumbling the so-called West's infrastructure is, and how much so many other ALLEGEDLY INDUSTRIALISD countries have it worse than us... The greatest triumph of the Western Institution (if we can call the West an INSTITUTION) has been to convince the AFRICANS that they arent shit and will never amount to anything and they're inferior to the West... Meanwhile... The Weat is falliong apat and behind, and needs Africans to believe they need the West becaue the West runs on African resources!!! you should go look at the amount of development happening in Africa, and how much is falling apart in the WEST!!!!

[@avery.a5948]

As someone who’s isn’t South African and has never been to South Africa this is very accurate

[@lu881]

Lol

[@ndzululwazimangqalaza7880]

I am a South African who lives in South Africa, I can assure you that everything he said is very accurate. This country is shit

[@anthonymanderson7671]

It is

[@deonkotzee6641]

Was much better 30 years ago.

[@jeczaja5347]

The ANC has been in power for 30 years? They've had time to make things better but looks like they've only made themselves richer.

[@Jaxon_Fowers]

I lived in South Africa for two years as an LDS missionary. I love the people and I hope they can come back from these tragedies

[@ben.faerber]

Where you stationed? I'm from Salt Lake and I've met several LDS white South Africans.

[@cuddles2634]

I visited Cape Town, the most memorable thing i saw was a really nice well looked after golf course with an 6 foot high barbed wire fence, and across the road under a bridge, a homeless man living in a shack built out of rubbish. It’s the answer to what if we ‘fixed’ our social problems by building massive security fences.

[@anthonymanderson7671]

I went to south africa back then in 2018 and i really saw how massive the inequality was especially in some areas of cape town. Me and my father couldn't believe it when we saw a shack in the slums built like an upstairs near the city center.

[@lizzardking3276]

You should check California 😂😂😂

[@makteko]

Yep, most of our problems can be traced back to this inequality.

[@OnAWireStudios]

As a white South African born 6 months after the first fully democratic elections, yet always being somehow held responsible by politicians for Apartheid, it is refreshing to see a video that at least acknowledges that the ANC has a lot to do with where SA is today. They've had 30 years, and they've actually made poverty worse for black people, because they are looting this country empty.

[@AristotleMabika-Chiwanza-bd6qz]

I live in south africa and we had no water for close to 7 hours then comes back late at night and what's worse was that the following day water had gone again.

[@benchoflemons398]

So you mean when the government starts taking property from people with no due process the country loses foreign investment and the economy stagnates??? Who could’ve predicted this

[@chloegrobler4275]

if you are referring to the publically owned entities like eskom, i would rather see them stay corrupt publically than become privately owned wealth extractors.

[@qefewfwdcwdc]

@@redacted9280 not under apartheird LOL

[@sagetk2981]

Me laughing at the jokes then remembering I live in South Africa🤣😀😐💀

[@mykel9834]

You then realize you will never make it out of this hell

[@drake1896]

Isn't south Africa apart of the commonwealth? Surely it can't be that hard to move to WA or somewhere like that

[@goldensilver1937]

​@@drake1896 It was but the nationalist party made them abolish the momarchy

[@drake1896]

@@goldensilver1937 that's a big rip, best of luck guys and stay safe

[@qefewfwdcwdc]

@@drake1896 fookin hell, keep those african apes in south africa with their beloved leader AND THEIR politicinas. No need for human waste to enter great britain

[@itsfarhan0.024]

At the age of 17 I've experienced 3 hijacks, many shootings and racial discrimination and in terms of monetary standards my family is well off and I still experienced these things. And I live in a city where the crime rate is not as high and day by day its getting worse and the disparity between cities is crazy. (For the South African's: Eskom is n poes.)

[@Frivals]

Are black people the problem?

[@neonik6204]

Which city?? If its near jozy, then you should know they are called Amapara-para

[@itsfarhan0.024]

@@neonik6204 Gqberha 😭

[@Animecianimeleri]

What do u mean hijacks?

[@zentodale]

Farhan. Sorry that happened to you. Do you mind telling the international folks here if it were white highjackers?

[@thisguythatguy8622]

Thank you for making this video 🙌 As a South African I'm deeply ashamed of how our county has turned out 😭I hope to see some change in the next decade ❤‍🩹

[@URBeingLiedTo]

Apartheid ended decades ago and majority native black political parties have dominated the South African Government and politics since then....

[@beano6992]

Cause and effect

[@URBeingLiedTo]

@@beano6992 Yes, the current governance of South Africa is the cause of many of it's problems. The effects impact the population as a whole.

[@JohnWest-z9v]

Correction: only one majority black party has dominated South African government and politics, and it’s run under the principle of “Democratic Centralism”, which means that whoever leads the party has nearly unfettered power. It’s not about it being black, it’s not even about it’s ideology, which is centre-left in reality, but it’s about the lack of internal democracy that allowed craziness like Mbeki’s AIDS denial, and then Zumas corruption to go unchecked.

[@mike04574]

Anc have made things worse too

[@frogfinance4605]

May I point you in the direction of Rhodesia, a warning to "native black majority political power"

[@Stoffies123]

Finally! A video about my country where the corrupt government is added to the small % of people who hold most of the wealth instead of just blaming it all on White Boere.

[@bobmarley4272]

No offense but the boers are why 90% of these problems exist.

[@RazorsharpLT]

Aaah, no wonder you people support Russia It all makes sense now

[@Stoffies123]

@@RazorsharpLT We don't support Russia...

[@RazorsharpLT]

@@Stoffies123 Not what i've seen from all the BRICS posting (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Of fun note Brazil is the ONLY nation in the world that went from a developed economy into a developing one lmao

[@EvillAnime]

@@RazorsharpLT it's just political manouvering, that doesn't mean that it's popular

[@tommycarrizal1656]

I've never been much into geopolitics but the way you mix in history and geography with a dash of memes is perfect love your vids man also happy to see your still adding sound effects (:

[@Twincharger_50]

It's crazy how some people are trying to justify apartheid in some of these comments

[@thabiso816]

ANC is the problem here and worse part people still vote for them no other party stands a chance next year we are having the elections they will promise people electricity,better roads,better schools etc

[@CRETEZ943]

Thoughts on the current situation boss?

[@joelmoore5732]

​@CRETEZ943 I was looking for a comment like this one, and I was about to ask the same question. I'd be interested, though, if a new video was made about the future prospects of the GNU

[@laylhendriks4720]

True I actually agree with you because I'm from Cape Town which is runned by the DA and it is way better than the province's that the ANC are ruling

[@esrynshudder4216]

love the amount of effort that goes into your vids and all the stats in them

[@LindaBobbert]

Heres some stats for you jimmy, the IQ required to work any job in civilization is 85 per project 100,000. The average black IQ is 70 in sub saharan africa per many scientists such as Lynn/Rindermann. Something like 80% of black sub saharans are mentally disabled by IQ score. Its really that simple, they didnt' even have the wheel before contact. And remember IQ is majority hereditary, more genetic than height. Thats why these 'people' never invented the wheel and fail to develop to this day.

[@eco1969]

he appears to do them at ridiculous speeds too, those little effects, animations, sounds and details take A LOT of time, at least for me, huge respect.

[@ruslanart8734]

this relates to the electricity problem: some business had a solar farm for themselves. It overproduced so they decided to sell power to the locals and eliminated load shedding in that area. The government made them stop and now people are back to no power.

[@francoisfru8003]

Bro said "Ramafosa" 💀💀💀

[@lamrereyneck9267]

This video is just so perfect in describing South Africa's sinking ship. I feel like as a young person south Africa's state can also be such a daunting thing to look at South Africa and think how will i grow as an individual or how would i even look after my family if i had one😢 it's just depressing n seems hopeless

[@jamiejam4823]

As a south african youth, it is it's super depressing :'D 👍

[@hypalegendzyt6819]

Sending blessing to you I’ve been considering visiting your country but not where most tourists go I’ll be with someone most of the time they’ve tought me about how to conduct myself there

[@humansolarian]

We must look at the future of this nation with hope lest we want to grow indifferent and hapless to the situations, the fact that we have the ability to even access the internet leaves us with great responsibility to make micro changes within SA . Fight however u can, however you are willing to, but dont be a hopeless youth

[@i.lungsmaras7244]

As a young person you ned to learn your history... The ANC, for all my hatred of it, has pulled out more white people out of poverty in 30 years than the racist, mass-murdering, human-rights violating National Party scum would have even in another 60 yers (IMF, World Bank< and even CIA world fact book - and even the OECD, and some investment banks like JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, UBS and MunichRe)... don't take my word for it!!! But feel free to live to a shithole somewhere in the West where you think you will be better able to take care of your family (as in a country where a secretary/receptinist) can affrod to hire a domestic worker, gardener, take their children to school for free and still have a government stipend (peanuts as it is, but I bet there's a lot of Westerrn countries who'd love their Govt's to give them $20 per month when school, electricity and water are already free or heavily subsidised depending on income bracket... But go on, leave!!!

[@WIT_WOLF]

I have friends who live on a farm near Pretoria and they're power was once of for 17 days cause some people stole cables and the people who was supposed to fix it stole cables as well

[@jzjzjzj]

but the whites are the evil ones arent they?

[@matthew1882]

I believe it.

[@WIT_WOLF]

@@matthew1882 its true because of the long power outage their fridges stoped working

[@matthew1882]

@@WIT_WOLF I'm South African so I know that pain.

[@WIT_WOLF]

@@matthew1882 our pain is constant and sharp

[@chicovicente2845]

From South Africa, when the screen went black I thought the power was out for a second. It's bad man, good video.

[@PilotProductionz]

This is one of the funniest educational videos I’ve ever seen. Keep it up!

[@benjaminklass5118]

A Belgian lady was going on about how amazing it must be to live in South Africa with all its nature and stuff, I shook my head.

[@chloegrobler4275]

well our nature is amazing, its true.

[@benjaminklass5118]

Yes

[@matthew1882]

Fun fact, about a week ago my father and I had to fetch my sister from a party near downtown Johannesburg. Shit felt like a scene from Sicario, driving in convoy, checking every intersection for potential crims. Just another day in SA.

[@viskovandermerwe3947]

I couldn't get out of South Africa quick enough. I was spending more tome looking over my shoulder than watching for potholes in front of me. I got polio in 1956 when I was t9 months old, and felt like a "white privileged cripple target" for all my years there. The hatred felt palpable in the streets and I always thought I was in danger. Then the attacks actually started...

[@angelvoxmusic]

I am glad you managed to escape. It is rough here at the moment. We project this picture of a happy place to the world and in reality it is much different. South Africa is a beautiful country but it is rotten inside with hatred and violence that seldom get seen or heard of beyond our borders. We really need to get the facts out there. We need the same urgency from world leaders to press our government to enact true reform as was directed at the apartheid government.

[@TBNRnoob14]

I live in Cape Town and am a white South African that is about to finish school and the situation is just seeming to get worse. It's even getting too expensive to live in normal suburbs anymore with electricity, water petrol prices going up. The cost of living is just so high that even people who were doing alright now can barely afford to support themselves. I've always wanted to be able to live in my country when I grow up and start working but the longer things go on the more it's becoming obvious that I will probably have to move out of South Africa to be able to start a family and have enough money.

[@dragonhunter9875]

This is so true once people tried to rob my house and the thing was police didn't do anything about it

[@logansymmes2193]

I've been to South Africa and it is easily my favorite country I've visited. The people are all insanely nice but the impacts of apartheid are still very visible. The most notable example I saw were the slums of Cape Town. It was extremely sad but also crazy how these people living in bad conditions still have a positive outlook on life and it's honestly super inspiring. I felt more safe there then I did in Portland.

[@logansymmes2193]

I also forgot to mention how goddamn beautiful it was oml

[@thastayapongsak4422]

​@@Bruh-tg3te has everything to do with it. Racial segregation = economic segregation.

[@KingOfAfrica90]

@@Bruh-tg3te it has everything to do with Apartheid, the neo Apartheid economy and land ownership

[@thatxpertkid4248]

@@Bruh-tg3te Bro.. are you stupid? In what way does that differ? It's like saying Feminism is not a Socio-political movement.

[@cocolovesdior8443]

​@@Bruh-tg3te You the one that needs to go educate himself!

[@Shezaad18]

South African here (descendant of Indian indentured workers that were sent to South Africa) and thank you for doing a piece on South Africa and the broken state that it is in. Very well researched and factual. Covered a lot of the major issues that we are currently dealing with.

[@Meowie765]

So do Indian South Africans contemplate going back to India given the state of things ?

[@papalegba4449]

@@Meowie765 no lol.

[@southafricangoat883]

no Indian South African would even think of coming back to india.I know Indians who still come to South Africa for a better life .Any indian South African leaving is going to other first world nations.Ive been to india and its 3rd world everywhere.Atleast here in south africa you still live well if you have a little bit and you can live a good life .I am indian South African btw .There is no comparison.@@AdityaRamachandranx

[@tpmash]

@@Meowie765South Africa is the best country let me tell you! Indians in South Africa WILL NEVER GO BACK TO INDIA! South Africa has spoilt them! They’ll be depressed in India, relatively speaking! TRUST ME!

[@srilakshmidevanathan8334]

​@@tpmashSpolit them as in ??

[@Kholanee]

Oh my days! The beeping when the power comes back 😭😭😭

[@TommoLinks]

10:33 As a South African, I was watching this with the lights off, and this black screen gave me such a fright making me think it was actually loadshedding lol😂

[@DirtRodeo]

As a South African born in the 80’s, I’ve seen a fair bit and I’m not a white South African. I have a decently successful business with our employees counting for 80% of my business from the black community. I never thought I would ever imagine this but I am also considering leaving my land, purely on two reasons only: 1. There’s no future for my children here. 2. The rate of violent crime. I work with people from many different countries and my European colleagues/associates are sometimes baffled when I account for sheer level of VIOLENT crime. We as ‘saffas’ can adapt to anything, to protect ourselves we strap firearms to our waists, to deal with load shedding (those of us fortune to afford it) have backup invertors/solar power and generators, to deal with water outages we drill boreholes, all of this in its place but living under constant state of fear is becoming intolerable for some. Sadly, if I leave and sell up my business, I would leave about 150-200 people without work.

[@angelvoxmusic]

I am so sorry to hear that. If you had to leave, is there no way to ensure that the person / business who buys your business could retain the employees?

[@aritvanegas619]

As a venezuelan, I can only advise to get out while you still can, you don't want to get trapped there when everything collapses

[@larryc1616]

Sell and emigrate while you still can. It's only going to get worse.

[@martinholmes1493]

South Africa has prospered so much in the past 30 years, said no-one.

[@beano6992]

I wonder why.. look at the timeline

[@yangerjamir0906]

@beano, of you speak out loud you'll be labeled a racist.

[@Ace-990]

Wasn’t good before at all

[@tempestwolf-i7g]

​@@Ace-990Was much better

[@juliusschwarz1387]

Trevor Noah, a comedian from South Africa, wrote a book about his childhood during apartheid. It’s called Born in Crime I read not long ago, it is pretty good

[@GundamMate07]

I lived in Cape Town during my childhood from 2008 - 2015, fortunately left when things were about to go real bad. I remember having load shedding almost bi-weekly for a good 4 hours in the evening but I missed the water rationing. Was fortunate enough to live in the area around Big Bay so things were civilized for the most part (with the exception of the usual DUI crashes). I'll be brutally honest, ZA ain't looking too hot right now, but if they can get their stuff together it's a really great place to live in. Also should mention that as an Asian immigrant I was often treated with animosity, like when I tried to enroll in Blouberg Ridge Primary School the principal met us at the front door with a sour look and asked if I could speak English without any welcomes or whatever. Enrolled in Elkanah House and they were a LOT more friendly.

[@imhappy7632]

I'm a South African who comes from a south asian family and I go to a predominantly south asian school and I've noticed how badly they treated the somali students. ZA has these sort of bubbles where different areas are occupied by different ethnicities. Sure its not like apartheid where you couldn't enter these areas but it still feels like there's an invisible wall. Sometimes it feels less like ZA' s a unified diverse country and more like different diversities existing next to each other.

[@siphomnisi3842]

​@@imhappy7632 don't forget there is xenophobia there. Hence why Somalis live with each other

[@wildfire9280]

@@imhappy7632 Hence why diversity carries little importance if it isn’t inclusive and equitable. Cape Qualified Franchise anyone?

[@zedrockiby]

Wow all of this has been going on since 2015??? I thought it was recent

[@angelvoxmusic]

As a South African, may I express my sincere sadness at the way you were treated. I trust that you know that we are not all horrible people. There are people like me here who treat everyone with respect and care regardless of how they may differ from ourselves.

[@thelostquiver1.012]

I'm a South African living in a small town in the FreeState called Ficksburg , I'm very lucky that I don't see allot of these bad things since the town is fairly calm and well kept , the only thing I've noticed is an increase in burglary but the community otherwise is very peaceful and kind

[@angelvoxmusic]

I used to live in Empangeni in KZN. During the riots in 2021 almost our entire CBD was destroyed and it barely made the news. It was so sad, I cried my eyes out when I saw the ruins of my town. I had grown up there. It was my home. But after a while my town had grown to hate me and anyone who looked like me. It broke my heart and I just had to leave. I could not afford fancy moving trucks and so on, so I sold and gave away the few possessions that I had and left with the clothes on my back and a suitcase of clothes. I will never return there again.

[@officialdeamo]

HEY, i LIVE IN DURBAN,SOUTH AFRICA, Living here is not for the feint hearted, the broke truly stay broke, the rich go broke too, everything is soooooo overpriced and the corruption is not comprehendible, i label it Terrorism, the power outages are forcing many businesses to close down and those working from home suffer even more due to us being poor and trying to get through each day as it is....... i am currently trying to find work for almost 2 years and can still not land a job (not even cleaning gardens) its bad and i really hope i personally find a way out, i grew up wanting to play soccer/football and am now making music and livestreaming to try make something out of my life, but this loadshedding, inflation & unemployment rates make living really tough, i have no excuses as a individual but as a country we all have BIG PROBLEMS, Thank you for bringing this matter to light, i hope we all come out on top😱

[@Dr-Tyme]

As a South African with my entire family living there (I was born in the US but visit SA frequently) I can tell you that this man is speaking FACTS.

[@mikaeels2691]

Just driving though Cape Town, the blatent inequality presented to you front and center. Loadshedding makes all forms of life tough, and its even starting to threaten food security now that businesses are bleeding money from loosing refrigerated food, to farmers who lost thousands of chickens due to the ventilation system in farms turning off

[@SimonYU-ln4gy]

You know, I constantly tell my friends about how beautiful and amazing South Africa is, how many things there literally tops what you could ever see or what you could ever imagine in developed countries... But ironically, I actively took opportunities in order to get out of South Africa because there is enough stuff that makes me not want to stay.... I guess what I want to say is that I am proud of my country, but I dont want to stay anymore

[@g-lani]

This comment right here has been my outlook since highschool. I was born and raised in South Africa, Mbombela to be precise and I always tell my foreign friends that this place is amazing but I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't leave it if I had the chance.

[@SuguruGetoThroatGoat]

Fr the stuff like loadshedding theres so much loadshedding to the point wifi / certain stuff that requires electricity doesnt work anymore and my parents would have to get new things which costs alot, thankfully my parents are saving for all of my family to move somewhere else in 2-3 years😭😭

[@masha22092000r]

Than what exactly are you proud of?

[@frederickvonabel6349]

South Africa is just the story of post colonial Africa playing out on a much larger scale. The old white regime is toppled from power by a political party that generates a lot of domestic and international support only to go on and become extremely corrupt, building a kleptocratic oligarchy at the expense of the docile masses. Unlike the rest of Sub Saharan Africa, South Africa managed to build up an industrial economy so our fall is much more drastic than the rural African countries that were reliant only on getting commodities to the ports. We have near DRC levels of corruption but with a young urbanised population, surely not selecting for disaster in the future right? . I personally see no positive future in this country and am only waiting until I get a degree that allows me to emigrate someplace nice like Australia.

[@tharealverminsupreme135]

This makes me sad :( I had a roommate from South Africa, a young Zulu man named Sakhile. He spoke about his nation with such hope, It makes me quite sad to see what a sorry state it’s in today.

[@frederickvonabel6349]

@@tharealverminsupreme135 The truly heart breaking thing about modern South Africa is how much hope there was at its inception. That hope is now just feelings of dissapointment, bitterness and anger

[@x6621]

@@frederickvonabel6349 Back in 1994 it felt like the entire country came together and that a “Rainbow Nation” could truly be built. Nowadays it’s a shambles

[@a54109]

We can learn from this. Some people should be kept away from power.

[@prospektarty1513]

That’s simplifying things a bit too far. Yes all ex colonial societies have to adjust themselves to the reality of independence and having your ex overlord sniffing your backside for any advantages but most African ex colonies were not that unhinged by their white overlords

[@Itsnotbrainrot]

The inequality is crazy in the same city we literally have people that could do anything for a piece of bread while on the other hand i see 16year kids in our school arrive in Mercedes AMGs

[@Croz89]

I think part of the issue is there been a gradual middle class flight from SA over the decades, leaving a tiny upper class mostly white minority and a large lower class mostly black majority. Initially post-apartheid it was mainly the white population, 20% migrated from 1995 to 2008, for a number of reasons though some did feel the ANC really wanted them to leave. But they have been increasingly joined by other racial groups sick of the crime, economic instability and corruption. The inequality we see today is partly because the middle is leaving the country, the upper class can use their wealth to protect their lifestyle with generators, razor wire and armed guards, and the lower class can't afford to leave.

[@shauncameron8390]

[@Croz89]

@@shauncameron8390 Indeed, though a lot of middle class black South Africans who have arisen in recent years are now leaving too.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

​@@Croz89 Jeez, I know this white South African online, and he is planning on leaving in the future.

[@xijinpingsfavoritehemorrho1328]

As a us citizen, i reeeeaaallllyyy hope the lower class of sa doesnt get the means to come here. Sometimes you just have to write off a lost cause, we have enough violence already.

[@kensmechanicalaffair]

Do you think if the financial gap wasn't so wide that would change the society?

[@Da__goat]

Was there in 2017. Exchange rate was very favorable at 13:1 with the USD. The Cape government had ridiculously mismanaged the water situation and there was a pretty severe water crisis that was going on. Absolutely beautiful place with stunning landscape, but with its massively diverse population and how its various states function, it's essentially just The Cape and all of the other states. Neighboring Botswana has been doing better, its relatively stable, the same for Namibia. However, unlike in the US, where groups blame each other, in South Africa, the people blame the government, and crime in many places is very high. I do find it really funny that, when given power, regardless of who is in charge and the color of their skin, everyone behaves the exact same way. Same thing happened in Liberia, free African-Americans just owned slaves but in Africa.

[@springbok8876]

People liked to think that the oppressed once free of oppression and given a chance to rule would do so with benevolence and good governance. That is not the case as the oppressed will easily corrupt and be overwhelmed with what they had not had access to before. Like a child being given unlimited access to the sweet shop they will stuff themselves with as many chocolates and sweets to the point they get sick. This is a metaphor for former freedom fighter African politicians that are overwhelmed by the wealth they have access to. And Africa as a whole is paying dearly for that as these politicians siphon off as much wealth as they can for themselves at the expense of each nation, Africa's development is being stunted.

[@jeannemeyer3089]

The Cape government is not in charge of the waterworks, this is also nationally run, hence useless.

[@leigh4326]

The Cape Town government is not the ANC. It’s DA they even got a lot of donations for the water shortage from Israel etc and they’re so corrupt but because they are white people let them

[@WihannD]

I agree with much you say. But local (or city) government isn't really in charge of building national infrastructure like dams or power plants. The City of Cape Town has done a commendable job to alleviate power, water and crime issues in its local area, not even mentioning the generally more in shape infrastructure like roads. While crime in Cape Town is still quite high, the police is much more trustworthy than the okes up country, where bribery is rampant.

[@katemelton1589]

Botswana population less than 3 million, SA population more than 60 million

[@emanuel3617]

📃🇬🇧❓: hum... So you're telling me when I invade a country and take everything from the locals they get poor and starve?? That doesn't make any sense...

[@Fomphom]

Everybody down here agrees the worst thing is loadshedding and water RANDOMLY being non-functional

[@SubjectiveFunny]

Left when I was 19, I've never looked back.

[@plapin3538]

why?

[@EricQCX]

@@plapin3538bc the country’s shit (btw I’m from South Africa but moved)

[@plapin3538]

@@EricQCX sorry

[@VMohdude-]

Aren’t you kinda looking back now tho?

[@SubjectiveFunny]

@@VMohdude- I don't think you know what that phrase means..