Why Is South Africa Being Plunged Into The Dark Ages

Why is South Africa being plunged into the dark ages? And what has caused the country’s energy grid to collapse?
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[@Marcianito100PorCientoReal]

Some cultures can build civilizations out of rocks, other cultures can turn civilizations into rocks.

[@francismonroe969]

Yes “cultures”

[@jesuschristislord7314]

No apologies, very common with the black man...😢

[@JosiahWarren]

Its geentices. Culture supposes that they can adopt some cultural elements ,what they did and cant because of underlying biology. They are collectively dumb as fk

[@markgarrett3647]

Black powah man.

[@KnownNiche1999]

Races* It is races

[@channysmith83]

South Africa's problems started when the ANC came into power and that is a fact.

[@ericklein2589]

Spot on!

[@nativetexanful]

You've got that right. I'm in the US and my mom migrated here from South Africa in 1959. She was from Johannesburg. When I was a kid back in the 70s we used to travel there every few years to visit the relatives and it was truly a great country. Now it's so bad that even the blacks are saying it was better under Apartheid.

[@chrissiebotha8574]

The ANC used to be a terrorist organisation trained by the KGB. Go figure.

[@peterkratoska4524]

Not just any politicians ANC politicians. They also replaced Eskom management with incompetent but loyal party lackeys. Eskom used to be a respected power company and exported electricity. Now, look at the hijacked buildings. Criminal gangs take over a building and start collecting rent. Also a number of politicians have had their fingers in hijacked buildings. Crime is rampant, if you dont live in an arned gated community you are unsafe. But police are useless, usually the areas with money hire their own security services and cleanup up and garbage services, because otherwise it just piles up. It's literally de-developing.

[@sillysad3198]

South Africa's problems started when russia decided to engineer a word-wide anti-apartheid campaign

[@winstonmaraj8029]

I scrolled down and haven't seen my favourite comment on South Africa - "First there was White Power Then there was Black Ower And now we have NO POWER!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@jonathanhartley3454]

the ruling party the ANC is just Another Night with Candles

[@mervunit]

lol that's a good one

[@KillerBill1953]

Love it. In return you can take "Black LIES Matter". You're welcome.

[@wanjalajesse1694]

😂😂😂 we still have black power literally

[@cuda6872]

So what you're saying is that S. Africa is the model California is striving to become, got it.

[@Hannodb1961]

Not just California, but most of Europe. Turns out, socialist virtue signalling has consequences.

[@user-fu9vj9ix3g]

Not even close. S. Africa is reverting to the same internecine tribal warfare that was present before Colonialism as have most other African "countries."

[@sdm6054]

@@user-fu9vj9ix3g Yup, this is the correct answer. Africa is reverting back to tribalism. Sudan have been experts at this for decades!

[@paulpieterse5052]

As a South African I can tell you that we were the “Guinea Pigs” for what the whole world is experiencing now. It’s all planned and orchestrated.

[@OneTruePhreak]

Fun fact: there were no sub-Saharan Africans in South Africa, before colonialism. They only showed up, and started crying about their "homeland" once white colonists built nice shit.

[@radix133]

But, but wasn't turning South Africa over to Nelson Mandela supposed to make it all a complete paradise on earth??

[@nativetexanful]

Didn't work out that way did it? Now it's so bad that even the blacks are saying it was better under Apartheid.

[@henryrodgers1752]

Paradise with a cannibals pot.

[@jonathanhartley3454]

what until you hear about the blatant racist law already in place which is the first of many

[@paulpieterse5052]

Sure was!!!!!!!! But that ship has sailed sadly………

[@endlessetudes2029]

Turns out he was a communist terrorist. OOPS.

[@melaniesmith1313]

In other words, the country has become what most African countries are. It is a tribalism mindset that does not serve the citizens in a modern economy. The country has been in a downward slide since they killed or drove out the people who were making it a vibrant economy. I had hoped it would not be that way, but there it is.

[@henryrodgers1752]

The University of South Africa actually requires that native superstitions be taught with equal weight in the two general science courses required for graduation in Liberal Arts. Stone Age people wearing suits and sunglasses.

[@unbreakable7633]

Africa has only itself to blame for its chaos and poverty. It has all the resources needed to be rich but because of its tribalism, which ironically was suppressed by colonial powers and re-emerged when the colonists left. Like the Middle East, I say it's not our business and we should let it stew in what it created by its own actions.

[@obcane3072]

Resource rich nations aren't rich by default. They are usually poor to begin with and have no way of accessing the resources. Nations made rich by industrialization then are capable of extracting resources to fuel their industry. This is why the colonization if a continent was possible.

[@urgandma]

​@@obcane3072it's why despite having so much oil money, the middle east is still a shthhole.

[@douglasjacobs882]

​@@obcane3072That is only part of the situation. The largest factor is geography. The continent of Africa is much larger than Europe, but Europe has more navigatable waterways and natural ports. The long waterways in Africa are frequently punctuated by waterfalls and the rainfall is very seasonal whereas Europe rainfall is spread out throughout the year. Europe had domesticated animals and Africa had none. Plants and cultures are easier to transplant at similar latitudes, east-west, that across different latitudes, north-south. Europe-Asia cross traded whereas South Africa was more of a one way trip. There are other geological differences, such as more diseases, poorer soil, ect. All of that contributes to more difficulty in getting resources from the interior of Africa to the coast and then from the coast, in small boats, out to larger ships. It takes 400 workers 4 weeks to transport what one train car can transport in 4 hours. There was essentially no river transport during the dry season the rivers often flood during the wet season. When the rivers were navigatable, the cargo had to be offloaded and carried by hand around the waterfalls and reloaded on boats to the next waterfall.

[@adods9824]

Met a middle aged South African here in Australia in April 2022. He told me two of his long time male friends had spent their adult lives working for the SA power company. They abruptly got called into head office, told that SA was a black country and their jobs were being given to way less qualified and experienced black workers. They were sacked immediately and all their technical expertise was lost. No wonder the electricity supply is now erratic in SA. Their loss, my country's gain. Both men plan to emigrate here; Australia 😀👍

[@DeathSithe92]

remember, they sing songs called "Kill all da boar" which is "Kill all the white people" it is an incredibly racist stone age country that should be left to its own devices...

[@loreman7267]

They were the lucky ones. There are shanty towns full of white people who lost white-collar working- or professional-class jobs. They were ruined by the ANC & their Communist Party buddies.

[@JDAfrica]

Yup - I’m in South Africa and I know some senior power company techs (the last of the whites technicians left), they explained a lot of things coming… the last 15 years have been spent trying to limit loads for houses by encouraging using gas burners / stoves, and switching incandescent bulbs to LED. He said their is no more power that can be limited, which is why load shedding is at stage 6 (14 hours of load shedding per day). Weirdly, there’s only been a 8% increase in total power usage in 20 years (despite tens of millions of extra people using the grid. But, it’s of a cliffs edge now, that more load on the system and less available power stations workin at peak means greater load shedding. Thanksfully, 12 years ago - I saw the direction - and added a substantial solar and battery system. So we have no issue. But it’s pretty weird at night that every street light and neighbor is off - and we’re still swimming with all entertainment pool and cabana lights going.

[@vladboy1]

Well your not alone that has happened to a few cities here in USA - caro Illinois, Detroit, St. Louis , Chicago, nyc , Philly , and Atlanta is heading that way to name a few

[@nedruss7040]

@@vladboy1 California is famous for its rolling blackouts.

[@lazlopwent7960]

If you give some people a pile of bricks, you get a house. If you give other people a house, you get a pile of bricks. It's just the way the world works.

[@brent4073]

The Bell Curve accurately discusses how the world works but we aren't allowed to acknowledge that is how this world works...

[@KillerBill1953]

In the case of Africa or the Middle East, that would be a pile of rubble.

[@GiacomoSorbi]

@@KillerBill1953, well, unfortunately South America too :(

[@janrabie1890]

Nelson Mandela was so passionate about the ANC ruling South Africa that he sat 27 years in jail for that. He is still revered all over the world. However, with hindsight one can come to no other conclusion that he was completely dillusional or very naive for thinking that the ANC could actually govern this country.

[@jam258420]

He is a Communist Terrorist who with his followers also massacred thousands of people.

[@jonye7511]

No liberation party has ever been able to govern.

[@project.jericho]

The only reason he and his sadist wife Winnie were revered was forced media adoration. They were horrible and cruel people.

[@robertr9188]

Mendela was in jail for terrorist acts not some higher purpose

[@matismf]

Fourth world culture gonna fourth world culture, bro!

[@Madmac96]

We all know what South Africa’s problem is, and power outages aren’t it. Yeah, I said it.

[@ericklein2589]

We all know why this is happening in SA, it’s obvious.

[@tomtaylor5623]

yes but more people need to learn who was behind it and who is behind the same attempt now in all western nations.

[@longsleevethong1457]

Ungawa!!!!

[@eisbeinGermany]

because black people took over and we all know thy cannot run a country

[@_hold_the_line_]

South Africa turned their backs on the competency hierarchy because it was "unfair" and didn't produce equality of outcome. Now it's replaced by incompetence and corruption and the results speak for themselves.

[@eisbeinGermany]

and who supported the anti-apartheid movemnet, the USA Austalia New Zeelandthe countries with the highest apartheid in those countries,

[@atatterson6992]

Yep, and they want the UK, USA, Europe and Australia to join the fun...

[@atatterson6992]

@@eisbeinGermany huh?

[@atatterson6992]

@@eisbeinGermany the only apartheid in the USA now is against white people...

[@8023120SL]

But they HAVE achieved equality of outcome! They're ALL now at the poorest level.... except for those that are "more equal than others"!

[@MrTrenttness]

🔥🎸🔥 Every major city across the Western world has also been driven to ruin by Africans has well. Not one town or metropolitan area has seen lower crime rates, better schools, and more trusting communities after their demographic changes. The truth is South Africa is all of our future if nothing changes.

[@brucea4901]

💯

[@machinemaker2248]

That's their plan. They occupy positions of power, or they own the people who do, and they orchestrate the slow-motion invasion and destruction of everything vvhite.

[@Hannodb1961]

As a South African, I thank you. We need more awareness on this issue so the world can put more pressure on the ANC government. But it seems to me, the world only cares about "crimes against humanity" when the government is white. The world insisted that South Africa gets a Black nationalist, socialist government, but now that they got their way, the world is looking the other way. Even people from the townships are starting to say things were better un Apartheid, and they dont mean that as a compliment.

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

Why do you decapitalize "white" when referring to a demographic group, yet capitalize "black?" Is the former a mere "paint color" while the latter refers to a demographic group? This is exactly the type of cultural racism pushed by the American activist media types like the Associated Press(titutes).

[@kenhnsy]

He could do fifty of these videos if he went to South Africa and talked to the locals. I worked in Boer country for a while and I was astonished how flagrantly the news is misreported. But I could say the same about the US.

[@perihelion7798]

True enough, but blame that on CRT and general wokeness, not white people.

[@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr]

Fokken swart poesse.

[@nadogrl]

Who could have seen that coming?🤯

[@stevetaylor8298]

My next door neighbours here in Australia escaped SA some years ago, they say they will never go back and that all these problems were predictable and showing soon after the 'take over'.

[@ACDZ123]

Are you in Perth? Lots of ex pats in Perth..first port of call from Africa

[@99Michael]

We see the same mindset in many American cities, resulting in failing schools and infrastructure, from water treatment to policing.

[@alainmiclette7634]

Corruption is a way of life in many places in Africa, one of the main reason they stay poor.

[@jonathanhartley3454]

well yes, bust mostly because the western countries steal our resources

[@dtsh4451]

It’s the “culture”, if you know what I mean🥱

[@anthonymanderson7671]

It's deeply engrained in our culture.

[@marjaangroenewald4750]

Nick, as someone living in Potchefstroom, South Africa, I can tell you that 2 to 3 months ago, we had 11 hours of "darkness" per 24 hours, scattered throughout the day. Between 2,5 and 4,5 hours at a time. This carried on for weeks.

[@christopherbright1048]

Black leadership

[@chriswhite3692]

@@christopherbright1048 Yep. People blaming ANC. ANC wasn't in Zimbabwe. Liberia. Haiti. Jamaica. Baltimore. New Orleans. Detroit. Chicago and almost every other society they run into the ground.

[@chriswhite3692]

Please get out while you can. Come to the US.

[@malicant123]

The whole West needs to look to SA and Rhodesia as a lesson.

[@balsak007]

@@gone547 don't forget to include England, Muslims will rule in a few years. Communism will be there also sooner than later

[@gertexan]

The politicians do....like FJB, Newsom, Pelosi, Waters, Abrams, Obama etc.

[@brent4073]

Lol women are going to keep voting for woke/socialist policies/politicians that will drag us there no matter what. It is happening in every western country.

[@armpitz8694]

Damn right man.

[@halfdome4158]

@@gone547 100% correct. Great comment.

[@machinemaker2248]

You're not seeing the bigger picture, Nick. Everything there is crumbling -- roads, bridges, waste management, electric, water ... it was built for them and run for them, and then they kicked out the builders. Now they cannot even maintain what they took. It's not their fault; they just can't do it.

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

Just like in the Congo,which had awesome railroads in the 1960s.

[@GallowsPole805]

Just what do mean “they”????…. Lol

[@ReshyShira]

Why is it not their fault that they kicked out all the people capable of maintaining their infrastructure?

[@ricksantos3714]

You are so right in this

[@machinemaker2248]

@@ReshyShira They were incapable of seeing the manipulation to cause them to resent the builders, and they are incapable of maintaining what they took. They can't understand the bigger picture. These are not well informed decisions..

[@Svenhansson]

That's odd. They didn't seem to have this problem under the apartheid. What changed?

[@christianbgood2910]

Corruption at it's finest is South Africa's real problem.

[@jean-pierrelabuschagne9355]

Globalists and international interests is our problem. Who do you think put this corrupt system and government in place?

[@wanfu5634]

Just because you make a change doesn't mean you made an improvement. Read into that what you will.

[@lindawarren6721]

'Tis true!

[@8House]

The answer to the collapse of RSA is obvious but you don't dare say why.

[@jmcvlam]

To quote Prof. Malegapuru Makgoba, a former board member of Eskom: "What the government does not understand is that politics and ideology can never solve the electricity crisis. They've been trying for 15 years and still don't realize it's not going to work. Electricity generation is a complex scientific and technological process. Electrons do not understand, listen or read DAS KAPITAL. There are many ANC politicians who have no understanding of the complexities surrounding power generation and what is needed to solve the problem. The level of incomprehension is underlined by time frames that are repeatedly laid down to end loadshedding." To this I want to ad that the ANC is not the real problem, the voters are. South Africa has, according to international statistics, an average IQ of 69. This entails that the population in general is suffering from mild mental disability. Currently 7 million tax payers are keeping 28 million on government grants. The majority of the ANC's voter base are non tax payers. The only way to resolve the issue is if we start voting with tax numbers instead of ID numbers.

[@normangoldstuck8107]

Historically the right to vote came with a responsibility. The obligation to work for the local fire-service and be drafted into the military. This is why women did not have the vote. It was not "oppression". Universal suffrage ended that. People who don't work vote themselves benefits and privileges everywhere. before this conflict Israel was being torn apart because a group of citizens who generally do not do military service or pay taxes enact laws getting the courts involved. Universal suffrage will stop working when enough people become unproductive.

[@Steve-em4tb]

"South Africa has, according to international statistics, an average IQ of 69." This number will keep dropping as white South Africans flee the country in droves.

[@dn822]

Problem is when you have more then a 100 race based laws and a 69'r becomes your boss. That's where the problems start

[@armpitz8694]

Sadly true. Take a look at the population stats since the ANC took over. You will fall off your chair.

[@NurseryEnterprises]

It's not the rules or the circumstances or the weather that is responsible for this problem. It's the culture of the people ruling S.A.

[@atatterson6992]

To be fair, its the culture and lack of intelligence of BLACK PEOPLE. PERIOD

[@stevecurran5206]

everyone knows why this is happening in S.A. I'm just waiting for someone to say it out loud.

[@gordonsylvester8457]

Start it, say it.

[@creeper326.]

Because they choose skin colour over ability

[@jacques8762]

As a South African, thank you for doing this.

[@ralphemerson497]

Do you think there’s a correlation between South Africa, Philadelphia, NYC, Houston, Atlanta, Washington, DC?

[@user-rp5xh1ob7h]

What is happening here in SA is what our overlords have planned for Europe, Australia and North America. Thanks Kalergi, what a bright future we all have ahead of us!

[@AlexAlex-zt3hi]

You mean the extermination of whites, or just poverty?

[@mattadders9819]

Correct. SA is the guiding template.

[@theragoooverlord5021]

All the native Ukrainians are being taken to war.

[@patty109109]

This is a very ignorant take. Next time you want to share your opinion just don’t.

[@user-rp5xh1ob7h]

@@patty109109 Can you explain why this is an ignorant take? If not, this just an "Ad Hominem" attack which means you have no valid counter to my argument.

[@thinadlamini4671]

As a South African I thank you for covering this issue.

[@andrebots4224]

As Amercan Conservatives you need to look at us in RSA and take note the US os on the same trajectory as we are!

[@jonathanhartley3454]

no, you need to look at us, this is where you are heading if you keep voting useless democrats

[@Tony-mw-533]

in Malawi we have also been on the same trajectory and it keeps getting bad.

[@logic_matters]

Thank you Broad Based Black Economic Empowerment, for showing the world how to destroy a country of milk and honey.

[@granitegreg7883]

A friend of mine lives in South Africa with his wife and newborn son and he’s constantly telling me about the power outages. Sometimes for up to 4 hours at a time and this goes in daily.

[@eisbeinGermany]

the load-shedding is the smallest problem,its the rape- murdering of white farmers and the fraud and corruption of these black people,

[@andrewbetances1203]

Are they carrying at least?

[@granitegreg7883]

@@andrewbetances1203 I have no idea but I don’t think so. He’s never mentioned it before.

[@HudsoniteJessie]

Some people are meant to orchestrate the building of a civilization. Some people are meant to move the bricks. This is what happens when the brick movers kill the planners and try to run things themselves.

[@teastrainer3604]

Civilization requires cooperation, and on average, Africans are significantly less cooperative than other people. This characteristic is innate and indelible in them. Left alone, they will return to their natural condition. Someday this will have to be admitted.

[@brent4073]

Basically why diversity hires don't work in any setting. Everyone should fill a role/capacity that they are able to do and things get all messed up when that is messed up by diversity quotas/nepotism/cronyism.

[@mandolorian9893]

Let me guess, you think you're one of the planners?

[@davidcox3076]

@@mandolorian9893 Personally, I'm a proud brick mover. Who is smart enough to move bricks and let the planners plan.

[@RCSVirginia]

As I posted on a similar video, when the ANC took over South Africa and stated that it was going to provide electricity to as many South Africans as possible, I told friends that the regime ought to sit down with the French and plan a whole batch of new nuclear power plants because they were going to be needed. Also, I said that South Africa needed to avoid the African trap of allowing corruption and putting unqualified people into managerial positions. Furthermore, it should remember that infrastructure had to be maintained and kept current to be effective. Well, it looks like South Africa did not follow any of those ideas.

[@robertjames-life4768]

Just took a vacation in Capetown and Safari in the central part of the country. In most hotels you don't even know that the power is out as they've all invested in generators. That said, take a headlamp with you as it comes in handy. It;s a beautiful country and we had a great time. That said, unless they can get over this corruption I am afraid things will get worse. So sad.

[@user-fu9vj9ix3g]

They will not get over this corruption. It is systemic in the tribal culture, and always has been. Leave it to the Chinese to figure it out going forward. Look for a Chinese effort to gain control of the mining sector.

[@consul6262]

The future of S Africa, is what happened to Zimbabwe.

[@balsak007]

Things should get worse, we should give the ANC more rope. Blacks will turn on each other, begging the Boers to govern them

[@eisbeinGermany]

the rest of the world is guilty of this, they supported the Anti-apartheid movement as they listened to lies, and so many black people who lived under the apartheid regime say they lived betterer than now, thy had work food and roof over their heads,now today they live in extreme poverty, that's why I do not feel sorry when i see tourists being killed rapde when on vacation in SA, thy supported the movement, its like Sir Peter Hain who fled the country and started the anti-apartheid movement in England now today regrets of doing it, he even came to testify against the same people who he supported in 2021,

[@Swaggedoutshorty]

@@balsak007What good would that do anyone? The boers should just leave it to rot, the time to fight was decades ago.

[@Wolf-hh4rv]

Corruption, incompetence and disdain for their citizens is a very African thing.

[@alexanderthegreat2678]

Because they took power away from a capable people and gave it to people who never invented the wheel

[@johngaltman]

Because they chose skin color over ability... Which you made sure to avoid say... Like the rest of the Western world is doing now, good times ahead.

[@Conservatismfailedus]

For us. Back to colonialism. This time for good. We will not make the mistake of giving the weaker genders and races representation

[@russianbot4418]

Old America: let's look at everything in the world that works and then copy it here. New America: let's look at everything in the world that doesn't work and then bring it here.

[@brent4073]

Old America: Lets let in every poor immigrant who wants to work and they can work in the factories or be homeless, hungry, and die. New America: Lets let in every poor immigrant who wants to escape the mess they created back home and come here to pillage our social safety net on the backs of tax paying childless middle class workers who have cats and dogs while the immigrants have 10 kids per couple paid for by social safety nets.

[@glidercoach]

I lived in South Africa for years in the 1980's. There was plenty of power and the hospitals and infrastructure were top notch. I returned in 2009 and it was a disaster. What could have possibly changed between then and now? I guess we'll never know...

[@gustaftheone9279]

😂😂

[@willemdehaan4103]

Well, you know that as well as I do - the blacks took over and now we have a better life for ALL the people, as the ANC promised.

[@derekpowell1762]

Oh we know all right

[@sethjr9815]

A friend married a SA man, we live in Australia, when the man’s family came over for their wedding and everytime when she needs to grab something from the shops at night the grooms mum are always surprised and tells her other two sons to accompany her, the groom would tell her it’s safe here, it is not South Africa.

[@adamdrouin2295]

This is at the heart of many issues America has as well. Too much government power and widespread corruption. It's incredible that we never learn the lessons of history and keep making the same mistakes

[@perrycarditi5]

It mirrors where the left most democratic leaders are taking blue states and cities and don’t forget the Uniparty repubs.

[@quitequiet5281]

The world is being ran by narcissistic sociopathic social engineering networks facilitating narcissistic sociopathic sociopolitical economic exploitation agendas and purposes related to facilitating hierarchical social structures facilitating hegemonic control systems. Corruption facilitates Cronyism and Nepotism. Nepotism and Cronyism increases Incompetence. Facilitating more corruption and incompetence. This cycle is rampant everywhere. The limiting factor is what they can get away with. The west coast of the United States experienced this situation to lesser extent just after the turn of the century... rolling black outs in California and the power company of Seattle stopped making power in order to facilitate making more money... The positions of power are sought out in order to Abuse that power and authority this is what they are after...

[@ricksantos3714]

Well that's how they want it,to them we are nothing but sheep, just look at the pandemic, and now again you see the sheep starting to wear the 😷, people don't learn, from history and we need to tell them enough is enough, remember, by the people, for the people. And not the you know version.

[@brent4073]

Not learning from mistakes made in history??? Women keep voting for socialism, in every single western country where they are allowed. Nothing has killed more people in recorded history than socialist ideas.

[@williamnicholson8133]

Some groups of people just hate having technology.

[@joeywever9194]

What a great country the made after apartheid, all seems to run super smooth, people can live safely in their houses, crime is down, nobody is getting murdered...just awesome

[@user-dr3dk1hd5o]

Joke

[@longsleevethong1457]

Scott adams was right.

[@famousmortimer7933]

Clott Adams is gigavaxxed…opinions discarded.

[@AA-yw1kf]

I lived in South Africa for 8 years. Glad I left before things got worse.

[@threadripper979]

"How could this possibly happen?" Come on now, we all know the answer.

[@user-wp8pm7nw1c]

"Roger can't take care of himself! He's like a baby! Or Africa!" Stan Smith, American Dad

[@richardwebb9532]

Not only the power and water, everything the ANC touches, gets "brokken".....every f-ing thing!! 🍻👍🇿🇦

[@paulpieterse5052]

💯 Correct! Not capable of building or creating only destroying and braking! Sad but true

[@gbone7581]

"Why Is South Africa Being Plunged Into The Dark Ages" was that pun intended?

[@brent4073]

Sounds racist!...

[@johnchandler1687]

If the shoe fits!

[@The13thRonin]

I see that South Africa has become a vibrant post-colonial society. Great for them.

[@ricksantos3714]

My wife is in South Africa and she says the load shedding is almost every 2 hrs for 2 hrs at a time all day long. Yet the president there says he can't do anything about it, but where did the millions of South African rand found in his mattress come from?😮

[@jjhout5988]

Where did all the money that was given to SA from Germany to invest in renewable energy go to. Just asking.

[@glennsmethurst2235]

Self determination ……. Just perfection 🥰

[@ronnievorster6361]

Well the truth be told incompetence is rewarded, and mediocricy is applauded

[@notthefbi7932]

Don't forget South Africa's drinking water problem 😬

[@unbreakable7633]

It's Africa. 'Nough said.

[@shaungreen95]

Why did the US support the Marxist revolution in South Africa in the first place? Most US folk still seem to think Mandela was a Saint. Cape Town is hardly South Africa's largest city. A little research would go a long way to understanding the challenges that are being faced daily on the Southern tip of Africa. Not all is doom though. We have private solar installations that would be the envy of most freedom lovers. The more the Marxists fail, the more opportunities to DIY ourselves out from under their boot. I would rather live under inept failing (even corrupt) Marxist rule than effective Marxist rule. More space to get on with our God-given duties, but it's definately not a place for 'sissies'.

[@outbackgearforu]

That’s the best response I’ve ever heard,because here in Australia we are moving more towards Marxist ideology,and it’s becoming corrupt ,not quite as bad as South Africa ,but getting there,and as you said ,it’s easier to function under a corrupt Marxist government than a powerful overreaching functioning one,only of course if you are self sufficient and adaptable . As a side note I used to live in east griqualand near kokstad ,miss the mountains .

[@jean-pierrelabuschagne9355]

Great comment Shaun. Hulle weet nie wat ons weet nie.

[@Nitsua2828]

I’d rather just not be replaced by our current system.

[@bharnden7759]

Rhodesia chapter two. The detroitification continues.

[@Daves_Not_Here_Man_76]

Its fun when you can see politics from space

[@haroldwood1394]

True commentary. Read 'Truth to Power' by Andre de Ruyter, the former head of Eskom, who tried honourably to reverse the situation. As for criminality...well, he did need bodyguards, an armoured car, etc, and he was poisoned a few days after his resignation; fortunately he recovered, but he is a loss to the industry and to the country.

[@jygb7092]

dang he couldn’t come up with a better name than that

[@jean-pierrelabuschagne9355]

De Ruyter’s mandate was to implement the green deal. He is a US puppet. He received a nice cushy job in America after selling out his country men.

[@DRum886]

I knew a bank manager formerly from SA who stated that life was better under apartheid for her (black woman). Anecdotal yes, but you can use your own eyes and see the degradation.

[@veritecarry7142]

Jip. Not met one person older than 40 years who have not complained to me Apartheid was much better and want it to be like that again

[@anthonnynavarro8486]

As a Venezuelan, this is every other day for us.

[@impalaSS65]

Why SA is plunged into chaos? Is this a serious question? "Afrikaners" were tough, smart and protestant Europeans. They created a country that was better than most European countries (i.e. the top of civilization). They were abandoned by their own race (first Rhodesia, abandoned by the treacherous Margret Thatcher), until they gave up in 1990. Then the very recent immigrant hordes from surrounding subsaharan Africa, were handed the jewel of Africa, polished to its perfected artistic symmetry - by sweat and tears of the Afrikaners! The hordes turned it - as always - into sh!t in no time. Questions?

[@ryanwulfsohn2563]

Most white Rhodesians weren’t Afrikaners and neither are about 30-40% of white South Africans . We come from many different ancestries.

[@ThreenaddiesRexMegistus]

Planned maintenance is not in the picture there. Surely this stuff just runs, generates and distributes power in perpetuity? Most of the budget has gone to new BMW’s and offshore accounts.

[@nunyabiznes33]

Imagine going from developed to underdeveloped

[@brent4073]

Basically every person in every western society doesnt need to imagine, we are all on the way there. Every western country is no longer growing in real terms and is stagnating with low birth rates and little to no real growth. Need to get back on the gold standard and not let women vote for socialism like they do in droves.

[@Henri-qq6xm]

The cause ? Corruption, corruption and more corruption. Example, I live in an area where a ANC minister moved in about a 10 months ago, guess what happened when they moved into our area ? Havent had loadshedding for 10 months.

[@Supernaut2000]

When I read about the people stealing wire to sell, that tells you all you need to know.

[@RCSVirginia]

To @Supernaut2000 This reminds me of one of my favourite KZbin comments of all time. Someone penned about the woke-progressive film "Elysium" in which at the end of the film, all the citizens of the Earth are made citizens of the one decent place left to live, the space station "Elysium," a clear metaphor for unrestricted immigration from the undeveloped world to the developed world today: "Elysium II: The Sequel: 'Everyone dies when the new residents hock all the life-support equipment for cash.'"

[@Supernaut2000]

@@RCSVirginia You said it much better than I did! How sad isn't it? A land with so much opportunity, beauty, weather, and all squandered.

[@sirfuxalot3315]

It’s almost comical how people close their eyes tightly and pretend not to know why South Africa fell apart.

[@grahamhutton1633]

We are looking down this road here in Australia

[@reece5863]

we're importing enough of these creatures. The fall isn't far off wherever they go.

[@gbone7581]

It will be a long road, compare the demographics.

[@daniellabra4186]

South Africa, formerly known as the Rainbow country, now known as a failed state.

[@pederjohansen2029]

Also consider the push for intermittent "renewables" which need massive backup from fossil fueled power.

[@jonathanhartley3454]

we already are but it does fuck all for industry

[@wpjohn91]

The goverment also taxes and disinsentives renewable perso nal energy sources. If you want to install solar pannels to reduce your issues they tax you.

[@rwusa1117]

When South Africa was colonized, the indigenous people there had not yet discovered the wheel.

[@armandrodriguez8501]

Corrupt politicians and companies are everywhere, but they're the norm in Africa.

[@xhag1x]

It's a mystery the world will never solve

[@steveluker8107]

Got the basics, just forgot to mention the real culprits and the bigger agenda

[@paulpieterse5052]

100% Steve what’s happening in South Africa coming soon worldwide. God bless us all🙏❤️🙏

[@shirleynanono6428]

Load shedding? As a child growing up in Uganda I thought that was a phrase we’d invented. It’s heartening to know other countries are just as corrupt.

[@marioncobretti3076]

Confucius say “Give the white man a pile of rocks and he will build you a city. Give the black man a city and he will give you a pile of rocks”

[@famousmortimer7933]

Whypipo don seezin they roks

[@blackboxmediachannel]

Cutting of your own weiners, flunking out, and engaging in sodomy, lulz. You barely exist in your own lands but you are speaking like a god.

[@deborahlozano7134]

And nothing will change. Money talks, walks, runs.

[@EyeSeeThruYou]

Or that the people who complained loudest about suffering racism became the worst racists themselves. Hypocrites.

[@Nemisish]

Genuine question to South Africans. Did life in SA become worse or better after the end of white rule? Genuine question.

[@charmainecarstens1031]

we have intermittent electricity and water, no railways left, SAA is a joke, we have more potholes than road, every SOE is bankrupt, every ANC run municipality is bankrupt, so what do you think. They did manage to create a whole lot of previously disadvantaged billionaires

[@veritecarry7142]

Worse.

[@Nimrod85]

Because even after they stop the apartheid, they didn’t leave the stone ages

[@TrueChell]

I'm very surprised SAfrica is still not a fully failed state and an anarchy. I guess it takes a bit more time still, but they're getting there. :)

[@Charlie7Tango]

I live in Cape Town And I can tell you S A is really not for Sissies We must watch our backs every single day And every kind of extreme goverment is a total F@¢Kup...

[@Tarrimaster]

ANC = Another Night of Candles

[@nickg0411]

wakanda!

[@Jim-zy3ny]

Blacks, we can build a modern city without whites…..😂😂😂😂

[@garyhirtz4392]

Like the short truths ,and history lessons.

[@Scott.Silburn]

Sadly, corruption and incompetence seem to have become the norm in SA these days... 😓

[@WeSRT4]

Not ready for modern society... The country is returning to its natural state. This is the cold hard truth.

[@tarnpirlane6792]

I think we all know the reason for the problems.

[@offshoretinker]

What could possibly explain this? Hangover from the Zimbabwe thing?

[@andrevanas85]

You should have mentioned the 5+ months that we had 8-12 hours of no power a day

[@Motoguzzi2231]

A toxic mix of communism, nepotism and corruption.

[@FunnyBunny-pd5xx]

Recently, the fact the SA President has declared SA no longer willing to have an Embassy in Tel Aviv is GREAT news for Israel 😊 SA revealing its TRUE colour ! (no pun intended)

[@sonyavanzyl7967]

Let's be clear about one thing, not all South Africans support that decision. I, myself stand with Israel and all her people.

[@learningtostream3919]

Well done you got that 100% spot on!

[@mchume65]

So, I guess EVs won't be catching on there.

[@amcds2867]

As a former inhabitant of the beautiful Country of South Africa, this is what affirmative action gets you. Racial discrimination went from one regime to another, but the Country actually worsened, it didn't get better. I used to think Mandela was a great man, I've changed my mind over the years. This new South Africa run by the ANC, compared to the former, has increased crime rates, devalued currency, insufficient infrastructure, increased corruption in politics. I have gradually understood why apartheid was necessary. Ideally what should have happened was a gradual prepararion and education of the black communities to eventually get the equal vote, but foreign pressure to do things in a rush hurts everybody and a tiny minority takes advantage of the situation.

[@balsak007]

Oh I see KZbin suppressed my comment. Typical

[@pkkgyasi]

Don't know about Apartheid being nessesary, you shouldn't oppress anyone. But you're right about the poor handover. And honestly, the citizens are part of the problem. They have watched and continuously voted for the OBVIOUSLY incompetent leaders. The ANC were warriors and should have stepped aside once the war was over.

[@balsak007]

@@pkkgyasi war? What war? We should have left the Zulus to their genocide of all the other African tribes. Give them an independent state, like Sesotho, and let them govern their own people. Instead Apartheid created the union all African Tribes. The idea of Apartheid was correct, however the implementation were wrong. Multiculturalism does not work, England will learn that in the next few years, with Muslims turning that country into a communist state. ANC are only still in power on the basis of being black, pure racism. And then still needs the white people to provide taxes. 5% of the population is the majority tax base, which is white people.

[@crosslink1493]

You just knew that after Mandela disappeared from South Africa (his death, not just stepping down as President) the place would start to go downhill. Too bad, formerly one of the most economically vibrant economies and one of the better countries to visit on the African continent. A little aside, but with this type of corruption in South Africa (and the other countries involved) you've got to wonder how this new 'BRICS' global financing system will survive.

[@bonololo3748]

The moment he was released from prison, was the start of SA's troubles.

[@russelldevaney7001]

The basic issue was that the South Africa economy, like that of Zimbabwe, was a sham. It APPEARED advanced and well functioning, but it only functioned well for the very small minority of whites living in South Africa. It APPEARED to be a wealthy country, but the underlying reality was that it was really quite poor if the wealth was evenly distributed among blacks and whites. When it became a black run government, the government was faced with the nearly insurmountable task of evening out the wealth disparities and job opportunities without destroying the functionality of the economy in the process. Even if the ANC had not been completely corrupt it would have been a small miracle if South Africa had managed to achieve an orderly evening-out of the economy without outright expropriation as was resorted to in Zimbabwe. However, given the corruption in the black governing class, the task was and remains impossible. There is no societal tradition of governance by law. Loyalties are EXPECTED to be to oneself, one's family, one's tribe, and in that order. Laws that seek to control this are non-existent or simply ignored. We in the West have a socially ingrained respect for law, and give the concept of law a huge amount of power, and we still have massive corruption issues. Africa really stands no chance. An African country can do well for awhile if it gets lucky and stumbles across a leader who is both competent, honest, and truly interested in bettering the people of his nation, but trying to keep this going into his successor's reign has so far been impossible. I personally believe this is an inevitable result of "nations" whose borders ignore tribal boundaries, thus losing the only binding force that can encourage people to think and act beyond their personal self interest. This will not change anytime soon.

[@FartSquirel]

@@russelldevaney7001 what you're saying is that black can't overcome their tribal way of thinking....I said that in the past and was called racist... go figure.

[@gary5481]

Sorry to shatter that illusion, but the country started going backwards on his watch & in the 29 years that the ANC have been in power, they have totally destroyed, not only the state owned enterprises, but the once sound infrastructure.

[@bonololo3748]

@@russelldevaney7001 I agree for the most part about the cultural norms and tribal mentality, but if SA's ruling class had not been downright corrupt and weren't a bunch of criminals with little braincells, it would have attracted a massive amount of foreign investment just like China did. When your industry and infrastructure keeps getting upgraded and you invest the gains to improve education, healthcare and making businesses more competitive, it becomes a cycle of wealth creation. All the East Asian countries did it this way after WWII, and that's without any of the benefits and first world infrastructure that SA had when power was transferred to the ANC. Some cultures are just not capable of ruling. It's been proven again and again.

[@jacksonlee3771]

You have to bring once "racist" S. Africa down to the level of the rest of African nations. Just like education system

[@jamesdarnell1944]

✊🏻 and ✊🏿 are not the same