Posted on 02/09/2023 4:01:00 PM PST by grundle
Car crashes, opportunistic criminals, rotting food, decomposing bodies, bankrupt businesses, and water shortages. Welcome to life under South Africa’s power blackouts.
Last week the grim extent of the outages was laid bare when South Africans were advised to bury dead loved ones within four days.
In a public statement, the South African Funeral Practitioners Association warned that bodies in mortuaries were rapidly decomposing because of the unrelenting electricity outages, putting huge pressure on funeral parlors struggling to process corpses.
The situation is so bad that the country’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is considering declaring a national disaster, similar to one in 2020 at the height of the Covid pandemic, which had a devastating effect on the country’s economy.
Last week scores of supporters from the Democratic Alliance opposition party marched under heavy security through the streets of Johannesburg and Cape Town to voice their frustrations over the persistent blackouts.
A difference between life and death
Known locally as loadshedding, widespread electricity blackouts are carried out multiple times a day by state-owned energy utility Eskom to avoid the total collapse of the grid.
Shortages on the electricity system unbalance the network, and Eskom has stated that controlled outages are necessary to ensure reserve margins are maintained, and the system remains stable.
While the country has been experiencing on-off power outages for years, since September 2022 scheduled blackouts have become routine, affecting every part of South African society.
For some people, not having access to reliable power can be the difference between life and death.
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Coming our way...................
Coming soon to the United States, courtesy of the WEF.
This was completely...expected after Whitey left power. It took longer than I expected, but it did eventually happen.
Black Power!
Didn’t I see recently that Biden was going to given them some vast sum to help them convert to renewables? Yessir, windmills are what’s needed to fix their problem
Well, when you murder / burn down / drive out the engineers, creators, and skilled bc they’re the wrong skin color, what do you expect?
So much for apartheid free Mandela-Land aka Wakanda. But as effed up as South Africa is, they have been subjected to unrelenting millions immigrating, who stream in from neighboring African states, that are much poorer. Thus making SA worse and worse.
“Black Power!”
Or lack thereof.
They might look just like Norklandia at night! Star watching will be epic.
RE: South Africans were advised to bury dead loved ones within four days.
One of the ways versions of the death of the great blues man Robert Johnson were evaluated was the location of the disputed gravesites. Because modern refrigeration was not available in 1936 in Mississippi, the closer burial sites were believed to be more plausible possibilities rather than distant ones.
All the details never really settled and even more books came out last year. A mystery. Rolling Stones’ bassist Bill Wyman and blues singer John Hammond are among those who did documentary films including the mystery.
Freeeeeee Nelson Mandela
Freeeee Nelson Mandela
I guess it’s too late to invite the whites back and let them run everything. Imagine the first heart transplant was performed in this hell hole.
DEI = Die whitey than everyone else.
At least white men aren’t in charge, am I right?...
Enjoy your equality.
Thinking, planning, and impulse control isn't their strength...
curious which died first
If everyone would be Hunter-Gatherers living in caves then we wouldn’t need Capitalism.
Ooops I take back the “Hunter” part on that because it requires the capital investment of time to build a club or other weapons to hunt. And if you go to sleep the night in a cave and discover a bear then fight hard with your hands and any rocks you can find, but in the end you will likely die as a martyr of anti-capitalism.
For gathering, no using baskets as that too requires the capital investment of time. Just hold the berries in your hand or eat them right when you pluck them off. If all the trees in your area no longer have berries and nuts or fruits then soon your life will end as you die as a martyr for anti-capitalism.
A problem for South Africa now is that they have a difficult time attracting investment capital anymore. Nobody wants to invest if the government is going to just expropriate away their properties. Its better to go find somewhere else to invest. So, of course you will see capital-intensive industries like Electrical Power not get the capital it needs to maintain the grid and progress for the future.
These people just cannot make the connection between hard work, diligence, planning, and all those other “white” values, and electricity, running water, flush toilets, and all the other trappings of civilization that “whiteness” has brought us. All they do, probably all they can do, is bitch about it.
I think this is what is coming soon to many cities. Systems are already starting to break down.
If you think about it, that’s hilarious!
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