Posted on 04/04/2024 4:31:30 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
From the outside, Johannesburg does not look like it is doing well.
Roads littered with potholes. Broken traffic lights not repaired for months. Rotting rubbish in the streets.
But from the inside, the scale of the problems facing the biggest city in South Africa and the richest and most industrialised in the continent is even worse.
From taps regularly running dry to daily four-hour power cuts – known locally as load shedding – life for many people in Jo’burg has declined dramatically.
The decline of southern suburb Forest Hills is a case in point.
Previously dominated by poorer white people, in recent decades it has become more mixed as black people sought to move out of the city’s apartheid-era townships.
“Although never wealthy, things used to at least work [around here],” Stuart Marais, a longtime resident and local city councillor, told The Telegraph.
“Traffic signals are regularly vandalised and are not repaired in under six to eight months. Grass is growing into our roads which haven’t been fixed for decades,” said the 63-year-old.
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Welcome to Chocolate Cities WorldWide!!
That’s a tough one
Strange. What changed?
That’s a tough one
Some guy wrote a poem about this a while back. Something about a burden.
“Africa win.... Again!”
Johannesburg has turned squalid, and there is no return from that either.
the pattern always repeats.
Capitalists build, socialists take, socialists let infrastructure built by Capitalist degrade, country implodes. Socialist blame Capitalists.
What kind of people ran it then.
.what kind of people run it now???
The usual suspects.
Sad, It was once a beautiful city, I had friends in Florida, two doctors married to each other, who’s families had escaped Hitler by taking a ship to Johannesburg. Wonderful people. She flew back every November to help at a clinic for native AIDS patients.
What have the Romans ever done for us?!!
It was taken over by the tribes haven’t you heard?
Same as here in America.
And how many countries will
the ‘what ever they’re’ called destroy.
The NYC of the African continent.
Oakland is following the exact same path under the “progressives.”
“Roads littered with potholes. Broken traffic lights not repaired for months. Rotting rubbish in the streets.”
There too. I was thinking East Cleveland OH, or Jackson, MS.
There's a lesson here. Not many will absorb it.
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