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Why South Africa’s Collapse Finally Came Down to Eskom: The electricity utility sits at the intersection of politics, incompetence, and crime.
American Conservative ^ | March 2, 2023 | Helen Andrews

Posted on 03/02/2023 2:14:53 AM PST by C19fan

Could the collapse of South Africa, so long foretold by pessimists, finally be arriving? The United States government thinks it’s possible.

On February 15, the U.S. embassy in Pretoria advised Americans in South Africa to have at least seventy-two hours’ worth of food, water, medicine, and hygiene supplies in case of power outages, which have reached record levels in recent weeks, leaving users across the country without electricity for hours at a time. In January, the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council held a meeting, which was leaked to journalists in an audio recording, to discuss the need to prepare for a total collapse of South Africa’s power grid.

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TOPICS: Government; Society
KEYWORDS: africa; corruption; southafrica
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South Africa putting the die in Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. Is the end game for Eskom all its assets will be stolen until there is nothing left?
1 posted on 03/02/2023 2:14:53 AM PST by C19fan
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Interesting story about Africa..In 1921,a planned parenthood board member/KKK leader wrote a book and he stated that africans would always need whites or Asians to lead them since the africans were morons...THE BOOK WAS CALLED THE RISING TIDE OF COLOR AGAINST WHITE WORLD SUPREMACY....RACISTS NAME WAS LOTHROP STODDARD.....He wrote this over a hundred years ago and very little has changed in Africa.....


2 posted on 03/02/2023 2:22:00 AM PST by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: C19fan

I love a happy ending


3 posted on 03/02/2023 2:23:17 AM PST by RockyTx
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The SA government was turning a blind eye, or even promoting sabotage of the electric grid This forced the need for costly repairs which then were contracted to "DIE" only corrupt businesses.

The CEO finally had enough and retired. There has been an attack on his life (if i recall correctly, I could be wrong on that part) for him speaking out about the issue.

Isn't diversity over meritocracy and the blessing of a functioning government grand?
4 posted on 03/02/2023 2:25:55 AM PST by Skwor
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It is not just the power grid, the whole country will collapse into anarchy. I have no sympathy for those people.


5 posted on 03/02/2023 2:58:32 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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Eerie similarities with Jackson, Mississippi or Haiti.

6 posted on 03/02/2023 3:03:06 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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“Eerie similarities with Jackson, Mississippi or Haiti.”

So true. However you do know it is racist to say that, don’t you?


7 posted on 03/02/2023 3:16:42 AM PST by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: C19fan

BTTT


8 posted on 03/02/2023 3:18:38 AM PST by nopardons
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Some years ago I saw a fascinating report on South Africa from a top economist at one of the big European banks. He said his company had decided to stop doing business in the country because they had determined that it had so completely broken down that the notion of repaying loans was becoming alien to its culture.

What made the article fascinating was that the economist said the bank uses all kinds of non-financial data when making major decisions about growing or cutting back its business in any given country. If I remember correctly, he said one of the biggest indicators they used to measure widespread cultural decline and poor business prospects was pedestrian fatality data. Apparently, you can tell that a place has reached the point of irreversible decline when its people can’t even cross a road safely. The combination of stupid pedestrians and reckless drivers is the ultimate “Mad Max” indicator.

9 posted on 03/02/2023 3:22:14 AM PST by Alberta's Child
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>> I have no sympathy for those people.

Nope, the whites running the country have been driven out, and the unending chaos is the result - civil war is right around the corner - think Rwanda.

Eventually the white people will need to come back into power to sort things out, or else they will become a permanently collapsed society like Haiti has been.


10 posted on 03/02/2023 3:22:21 AM PST by qwerty1234
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I've lost the link to the blogger who first posted this, but it needs repeating.

There's a thin veneer of hyper-competent professionals who keep the lights on and the water drinkable. Replace them with the incompetent and the water turns brown and the lights go out.

SA has been given over to a culture with an average IQ of (being generous) 85.

Kim do Toit is a South African ex-pat. He wrote this in 2002. https://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/05/05/let-africa-sink/#more-1592

11 posted on 03/02/2023 3:23:07 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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>>the notion of repaying loans was becoming alien to its culture.

Kind of like woke democrats and student loans.


12 posted on 03/02/2023 3:23:35 AM PST by qwerty1234
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To: Chad C. Mulligan
It's Kim du Toit. Sorry, Kim.
13 posted on 03/02/2023 3:27:13 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Alberta's Child

Go to any big city in the US (especially around universities) and you will see people who just walk right into the road and expect cars to stop for them. This isn’t just at a crosswalk, but in the middle of a road with parked cars all around.


14 posted on 03/02/2023 3:28:38 AM PST by LukeL
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Bkmk


15 posted on 03/02/2023 3:31:22 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

During the Athens Greece part of my US Air Force career, I was friends with a former South African white now a US citizen and Air Force Officer. His opinion, the good South Africans left in the early seventies. This was 1978. Later, in 1992 the Apartheid scam led to further reduction in white influence in SA, and now finally the country is headed for complete collapse.

Sympathy is the last thing SA needs. An awakening to the sin and reality of black Africa and the ones running her into the ground is what is needed and not a dime from the free world to her restoration. Chicago might be close to an example worthy of consideration.

There are two candidates for mayor of the windy city. One apparently like Lori the Ghoul, and one who just might have some values the could save the city from total anarchy. I’m in hope that the right candidate is elected, but then that is up to the people of Chicago. We will all be watching.

It is unfortunate that real American’s of color, don’t have a voice to counter those who are still slaves to fake history.


16 posted on 03/02/2023 3:53:57 AM PST by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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To: Tupelo

Truth is racist.


17 posted on 03/02/2023 3:57:52 AM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: Tupelo
It's racist to state the obvious?

Send in Captain Obvious!!!


18 posted on 03/02/2023 4:00:06 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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Diversity is our strength!

Nope.

Diversity is our collapse.


19 posted on 03/02/2023 4:02:15 AM PST by Tom Tetroxide
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Uhhh no, the collapse of South Africa due to an energy company is not the root cause of their problem.


20 posted on 03/02/2023 4:09:07 AM PST by Phoenix8
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