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South Africa is in freefall
American Thinker ^ | 1 Mar, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 03/01/2023 7:18:26 PM PST by MtnClimber

Its decline wasn’t inevitable. It stands as a warning to all Western nations about the speed with which bad (read: leftist) management will destroy a country.

I received an email from a South African friend today, infuriated at his country’s destruction at the hands of his own government’s ideology and incompetence. This was not hyperbole. In fact, the power grid is on the verge of complete collapse, which will leave people without food or water, and, when combined with South Africa’s decay in all other areas, may lead to civil unrest on a scale that could trigger a full civil war.

As a predicate to this post, it’s important to note that, since 1994, when the all-white government finally ended, all South Africa’s presidents have come from the African National Congress, a communist front group. It’s also important to note that South Africa, although in chaotic fashion, has been bowing down before “green colonialism.” As I use it, that phrase means that economically fragile countries destroy their energy infrastructure to suit the climate delusions coming from affluent western nations.

Now, all those communist and “green” chickens are coming home to roost in a terrible way (hat tip: Instapundit): [excerpt in post #1]

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: africa; civilunrest; failingstate; freefall; leftism; southafrica
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To: MtnClimber

Underneath it all, it’s a reversion to tribalism and savagery. In progress here.


21 posted on 03/01/2023 7:56:12 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: mikey_hates_everything

Wakanda didn’t want to share until they were forced to.


22 posted on 03/01/2023 7:57:37 PM PST by moviefan8 (You know, when you boil life down, it's funny just how little you need, isn't it? - Rip Wheeler)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I wonder how it will do in South Africa and how will the natives react? Of course seeing it in whatever form will require some electricity. Isn’t it ironic?


23 posted on 03/01/2023 7:59:23 PM PST by xp38
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To: MtnClimber

And the communist Demonrats want the same thing here.


24 posted on 03/01/2023 8:04:08 PM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: MtnClimber

Better Bachelor just had a video on South Africa’s collapse too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bCoXPWzsULM

These kind of stories are clustering. Late last year it was Sri Lanka’s implosion.


25 posted on 03/01/2023 8:06:18 PM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: seowulf

South Africa used to be an innovator in surgical heart transplantation.


26 posted on 03/01/2023 8:06:53 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Keep on fooling yourself.


27 posted on 03/01/2023 8:09:09 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: dynachrome

To add to the ones that crowd our streets.


28 posted on 03/01/2023 8:11:36 PM PST by 353FMG (Secretly practicing my Putin swagger..)
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To: MtnClimber

One things for sure, I’m definitely not going to play Sun City now.


29 posted on 03/01/2023 8:15:29 PM PST by Flag_This
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To: Lee25

“..Converting to natural state of Africa. Nothing surprising...”

You’re so right.
They’re not capable of existing in/running a modern society....they just don’t have the wherewithal. In a few short years, they’ll all be back in tribalism areas, wearing loin clothes and chucking spears at each other again.
We’re following right along in their footsteps here.


30 posted on 03/01/2023 9:12:10 PM PST by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: lgjhn23

31 posted on 03/01/2023 9:24:09 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: MtnClimber
BIDENOMICS
32 posted on 03/01/2023 9:25:04 PM PST by matthew fuller (Democrats aren't about Socialism or Communism. They are about Ghettoism, genocide and infanticide.)
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To: Regulator
That was my first thought.

But Andrea Widburg knows it's the polite thing to say. Even the obligatory thing to say.

33 posted on 03/01/2023 9:49:55 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: mikey_hates_everything
No joke. After Black Panther came out, blacks were calling the airlines about flights to Wakanda.
34 posted on 03/01/2023 9:51:48 PM PST by Angelino97
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To: MtnClimber
Western embassies including the United States and Australia have advised their citizens in the country to stock up on “several days worth” of food and water and be on high alert during extended blackouts sweeping the country.

Where they will be abandoned and die.

They should be being warned to leave the country if they value their own lives. Especially if they are the wrong skin color and thus easily identified. The mobs will not care if they are Americans, Australians, or South African whites.

35 posted on 03/01/2023 10:01:44 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MtnClimber

The Dutch Boers had their shit together.. Who eventually ruined South Africa were the liberal English that lived there. And England itself. England lead all the “righteous” economic boycotts back in Nelson Mandela’s day, that forced SA to knuckle under.

Apartheid kept SA functional and prosperous. Nelson Mandela and his gangsters and stupid England/UK ruined this. So now you have black rule, chaos, anarchy and starvation ahead. Same as Zimbabwe was functional under white rule, when it was Rhodesia.

SA was alawys going to end up like Zimbabwe. It just took longer.


36 posted on 03/01/2023 10:01:47 PM PST by dennisw ("You don't have to like it. You just have to do it")
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To: EastTexasTraveler

The problem is, the white, liberal, leftist elitists think they can control the monster they are creating and ride out the storm and come out on top.

They don’t realize that the hatred they are fomenting doesn’t care who they are and what they claim to have done. The mobs will only see skin color as they have been conditioned to do.


37 posted on 03/01/2023 10:07:13 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: MtnClimber

Is this supposed to be a surprise? Are there any countries or cities run by blacks that are functional?


38 posted on 03/01/2023 10:37:03 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: seowulf

And the first heart transplant was performed there by Dr. Christiaan Barnard.


39 posted on 03/01/2023 10:40:39 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: Celerity

“America is in free fall too.”

For the same reason. Just about every major city is run by a black leftist mayor.

We’re quickly becoming South Africa.


40 posted on 03/01/2023 10:43:42 PM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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