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What's Going on In South Africa?
American Thinker ^ | 25 Sep, 2023 | Mac Madden

Posted on 09/25/2023 5:18:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The failed state in South Africa is a blueprint for the USA if Americans don't make a change right away.

Other than natural disasters and major loss of life, Americans rarely pay attention to events occurring around the world — especially if it is a slow process, aided by the left. Such is the case with South Africa. With the end of Apartheid in the early 1990s, the African National Congress (ANC) won power in 1994 and has never relinquished it. What has happened since then has been the embodiment of Critical Race Theory in practice, with predictable results. Americans should pay attention to this, as it will be the endgame in the United States in the not too distant future.

South Africa is beating its carbon reduction goals handily as the power grid is increasingly causing rolling blackouts. The state-owned energy company Eskom provides 90 percent of the county's electricity. The blackouts and "load-shedding" are caused by an aging fleet of coal-fired plants that are continuously breaking down due to lack of maintenance, years of underinvestment, and systematic corruption. Eskom warned then-president Nelson Mandela's administration in 1998 that unless new and more sophisticated power plants were built immediately and infrastructure was upgraded, the electrical grid "would begin imploding within a decade." Between 2009 and 2018, multibillion-dollar contracts to build new power stations were awarded fraudulently to ANC-linked companies. The power plants are today largely dysfunctional, having been poorly constructed and filled with equipment that doesn't work. This is caused by the rampant fraud and corruption.

There were 104 confirmed cases of fraud and corruption registered with the South African Police Service over the year to March 2022, according to the energy company's financial statements. In November 2022, Eskom announced that police arrested two subcontractors for coal and diesel theft.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: africa; anc; collapse; communism; corruption; fraud
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To: joma89

The NYT tells us the chant “kill the Boer” is not to be taken literally. eyeroll


21 posted on 09/25/2023 6:57:16 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: MtnClimber

Irony:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4184716/posts


22 posted on 09/25/2023 7:05:13 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: KevinB

Exactly, and soon that pile of bricks become weapons


23 posted on 09/25/2023 7:18:30 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Levy78

That is not happening. Number 1 they are White. Number two, they are productive. But one thing is true. If they value their lives, they better get the Hell out of South Africa. if they stat much longer the will all be murdered. Believe it or not. Sooner or later it will happen here. The writing is already on the wall.


24 posted on 09/25/2023 7:25:02 AM PDT by sport
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To: MtnClimber

The democrats want the US to be just like South Africa


25 posted on 09/25/2023 7:32:01 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


26 posted on 09/25/2023 7:43:38 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

South African ex-pat Kim Du Toit nails it:

https://www.kimdutoit.com/2017/05/05/let-africa-sink/#more-1592

Nothing else need be said,


27 posted on 09/25/2023 8:08:44 AM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: Levy78

Yep. and the “coloreds” (a separate race according to SA). We should have DAILY C17 flights for families out of SA.


28 posted on 09/25/2023 8:19:46 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noch!)
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To: KevinB

YOU WIN POST OF THE DAY


29 posted on 09/25/2023 8:51:37 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Wow, that article is an eye opener.


30 posted on 09/25/2023 9:04:06 AM PDT by caver
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To: Levy78

“All white South Africans should be given asylum in the USA. Let the remaining animals wallow in their own shyte and misery.”

I believe it’s against the law to bring White people into the U.S. unless they’re billionaires.


31 posted on 09/25/2023 1:25:53 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: MtnClimber

You are correct, Mandela was a child murdering terrorist who should have been executed not put in prison. Yet everyone including Ted Cruz praised him when he died. Like what in the world. All the conversative lined up with the dems when he died.


32 posted on 09/25/2023 1:45:03 PM PDT by pghbjugop
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To: DeplorablePaul

“Communists are parasites who feed on a healthy host until it is sucked dry.”

South Africa is more complex than it appears at first.

The ruling class of black thieves is now insanely wealthy—sort of an organized crime family.

The economy is actually driven by white enclaves of prosperity and security.

This is maintain by bribery—massive bribery—to the ruling thieves.

So far the ruling parasites have (for the most part—there are notable exceptions) not chosen to kill the white goose that lays the golden eggs.

White folks who stay there are taking real risk—and I would not be comfortable doing that.

But—they have private planes ready to take off on short notice if they get bad vibes—so for now they stay and prosper.


33 posted on 09/25/2023 1:55:39 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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To: Pete Dovgan
To be sure, I am not a fan of apartheid.

Apartheid had to go. South Africa should had been split up into 5-10 different countries.

34 posted on 09/25/2023 2:06:06 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: cgbg

Insightful. I’ve heard that from SA expats.


35 posted on 09/25/2023 2:09:30 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: cgbg
White folks who stay there are taking real risk—and I would not be comfortable doing that.

Why bother? They should move to Dubai.

36 posted on 09/25/2023 2:24:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: logi_cal869

Seems the ccp is trying to help SA build their infrastructure but the materials delivered on site keep disappearing. That is SOP.


37 posted on 09/25/2023 3:54:15 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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