South Africa

• We're seeing an increase in coordinated attacks on water, power and comms infrastructure.
• Looting is no longer just a daily thing, but is also now becoming more structured with guerilla planning involved.
• Our roads no longer exist. Anything that is state run is crumbling.
• Police fire and hospital resources for the state don't exist and are also slowly disintegrating.
• ESKOM - South Africa's only power producer - is averaging 50% or less power output. Plunging massive parts of our country into rolling blackouts.
• Grant recipient's outnumber tax payers like 10 to 1. (Need to work out that number, but it's definitely up there. They offer nothing to society.. just leaches.
• The decay in general amazes even me. Roads are shot. Infrastructure is collapsing. Anything that isn't bolted down is stolen, and what is bolted down is grinded off.
• The cost of living is insane. Fuel is expensive. Medical aid is a luxury that most cannot afford. Food costs are going through the roof. I myself can literally barely pay for new fucking pants. 🤦
• The SA government now wants to put through EWC and NHI. Expropriation Without Compensation where land is taken from rightful and legal land owners and given to the "previously disadvantaged". NHI is some national health thing where you use the government for medical aid.
• Our Navy, Army and Airforce are done. Troops are buying their own boots.. army bases are being looted for copper.. vehicles and machinery are being canabilised for parts.
• Our murder rate is higher than the death rate in Ukraine's current conflict. Higher than an active war zone. 100' of rapes a day.. 1000's of kidnappings every month. 90 hijackings a day. Farmers being murdered like flies in the most brutal ways imaginable.
• The only form of public transportation that is operational is the taxi industry. Their mafia tactics have ensured that over the years, they're the only ones who will operate. They burn and kill anyone who gets in their way.
• Our rail is dead. Almost the entirety of South Africa's rail system is non operational.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/79739

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The country faces a “perfect storm of inflation, electricity cuts and corruption accusations that will continue to deteriorate South Africa’s profile and to pose risk for investments in the country

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This means that almost 30-million of South Africa’s 60-million citizens are now welfare recipients.

ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa on Friday told residents of Botshabelo in Mangaung the R350 grant was costing the state billions.

South Africa was the only country on the African continent dishing out freebies to its citizens at such a rate, he said.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/68621

> A Sudanese businessman landed in the Johannesburg airport two days before Christmas 2019, according to his account, rolling a carry-on suitcase with $600,000 in cash. He said he had wanted to surprise his South African wife for her birthday, and buy a house. > > Instead, according to Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, that cash somehow ended up stashed inside a sofa in the private residence of his game farm.

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/165479

> > “Kenyans holding ordinary passports will be allowed to enter South Africa on a visa-free regime for up to 90 days per calendar year”

Roos worries redistribution won’t end until “all property is transferred to the government.” He cited the nationalization of land in neighboring Mozambique after it became independent from Portugal.

People naively think that when left-wing zealots take power, that at some point they will be forced by economics or politics or reality to submit to reality again and I am here to say that is not your future. In South Africa we have been waiting decades for things to return to normal, and let me tell you that when your country is taken over by left-wing zealots, things will only get worse and worse.”

I fear what our Marxian elites are doing is setting up a future conflict between our country’s black Christians and black Muslims. As long as we have left-wing control, we will be divided by class or race or religion and pitted against each other to preserve left-wing political power.”

Crime has escalated to extreme levels in the country. Murders in the major cities are a nightly occurrence. Organized crime is booming, as is kidnapping and violent crime in general.

The South African police are so demoralized, underfunded, and constricted in what they can legally do, that they are now hiring private security firms to protect the police stations at night.

The Marxist economic political game of creating classes and pitting those classes into conflict with one another to preserve political power has been on display in South Africa.

Kleynhans says that a little-reported detail of South Africa is how oppressive the country is towards racial minorities, in this case minority black tribes such as the Khoisan people who were once called the “Bushmen” who are out of favor with the ruling blacks.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/45089

> African startups raised more than $4.3 billion in 2021 from local and international investors. That’s two and a half times the year before. > > This growth is unequally distributed across the continent, with the four countries with the most software developers raising the most. In fact, 81 percent of venture capital funding in Africa went to Nigeria, South Africa, Egypt and Kenya.

cross-posted from: https://exploding-heads.com/post/44873

> EIB's anti-fossil fuel lending restrictions have already sparked tensions with some African countries over what constitutes a "just" energy transition. Not everyone wants to travel down the route of unreliable solar and wind power sources.

The hateful song, which celebrates the killing of Dutch settlers in South Africa, is protected by freedom of expression and must be left to the political debate within society, according to the court.

The song says, among other things, “The cowards are afraid. Shoot the Boers, shoot, shoot.”