[Red Badger]

“He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.” ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Wasn’t aware of any of that, so it was a really intersting article. Thanks for posting!

[ClearCase_guy]

It says everything that you can look around the world for over 100 years and see nothing but disaster.

Over 100 million dead because of socialism.
Country after country devastated by socialism.
Most recently: Venezuela and South Africa.
It just doesn’t work.

Leftist response: It works in Scandinavia!
Scandinavian response: We abandoned socialism a long time ago, because it doesn’t work.

The Leftists who push this stuff aren’t actually looking for anything which “works”; they are looking for a system that gives them “power over others”. Which is where the mass murder comes in. And it always comes in.

[newfreep]

Leftism, under all of its' brand names, always fail - economically, morally & culturally. ALWAYS.

[Steely Tom]

Socialism scales up to disaster.

[2banana]

Let them freeze in the dark with hunger.

It is the only way they will learn.

[democratsaremyenemy]

[Andyman]

Question: What did socialists use for lighting before candles?
Answer: Electricity

[Professional]

Oh stop... the electricity shortage comes from racism that still needs to be overcome.

[Billthedrill]

Eskom’s engineers and brass were unqualified ANC cronies brought in through affirmative action, and were incapable of managing a project of this scale.

That's what killed both the power and oil industries in Venezuela. State ownership of the means of production means party ownership, which means plunder by politically connected incompetents. They can't build, they can only steal. That's socialism in a nutshell.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Curious, why wouldn’t they just copy the successes of other successful Black-led countries instead of asking the Chinese for a handout?

[albertabound]

big surprise kick out the whites ....another African country goes down the drain.

[Gay State Conservative]

We've visited South Africa several times...all but the most recent was before Mandella. During our visit of a couple of years ago there was no problems while we were in Johannesburg but there was a problem when we were up near Kruger National Park. We figured that given the Kruger was in the middle of the African bush stuff like that was to be expected...mainly because we encountered the same thing in Kenya.

However,South Africa is supposed to be more advanced than Kenya so...

[Lee25]

The world is lucky to have South Africa. It can show to the world what does not work

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’d rather see these idiots in the dark
than with ownership of a nuke plant. Hello? Chernobyl?

[ArtDodger]

Those of us old enough to remember South Africa pre-Carter, can recall Johannesburg as being a first world city comparable with London. Well.. almost.
Oh the havoc wrought in the name of socialism.

[smvoice]

Sander replies, “Yes. It is true.
But OTHER nations do not have ME running them”.

[I want the USA back]

This is what happens when a country disenfranchises Whites and takes their land and money, and then allows the folks to kill them without consequence.

[Truthoverpower]

Running an electrical infrastructure is a very challenging and engineering heavy process

Not only do you have to produce the power in centralize plans but you have to have a massive distribution system of electrical lines transformers switchgear stations and a computer system to manage this entire enterprise

You have to know and plan for your big users are and what their loads are going to be and you have to plan for contingencies and maintenance and downtime for any of your power plants

Trying to run diesel fired power plants which is very common in the Caribbean is in itself a complete disaster. Not for environmental reasons as much as operations and maintenance reasons

Coal fired power plants if designed and engineered properly and with a steady state of supply of coal can’ operate quite well in quite a long time but again are very heavily on the maintenance side

In a place like Africa or the Caribbean you’re going to have all kinds of shenanigans going on and people trying to steal things and power and equipment

The bottom line is you need to have not only competent engineers but also a security force to protect your infrastructure from criminals saboteurs and idiots

[HamiltonJay]

Want to talk about your hyperbole.. the following segment tells you this article is propaganda....

“Storing perishable food in the fridge has become a gamble. The meat you buy today may be inedible tomorrow if the rolling blackout arrives and lasts long enough to destroy all the food you cooked.

With rolling blackouts that can last for as long as twelve hours”

Your cooked and chilled food is not going to ROT in 12 hours in a closed refrigerator that was to temperature when the power went out, even in 80 degree heat. Its not ideal, but its hardly, your food will ROT and be inedible.

While S. A. does have its share of problems, and I am all for criticizing them and pointing them out, there is no need for this kind of lying crap to try to make your point.

Folks in SA are not holding off buying meat because they believe their electrical grid is so unreliable they don’t trust refrigeration.... Stupid claim for sensationalism.