Posted on 03/31/2024 5:40:18 AM PDT by grundle
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. “Broken cars lie around and many residents put their rubbish out onto the streets and it lies there rotting.”
It was “far too dangerous” to walk around at night, he said. “The decay in this part of Johannesburg is massive.”
Mr Marais says the blame lies squarely with the municipality, where the African National Congress hold the most seats.
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Hmmmm, any guesses as to why that occurred?
Just asking.
Same reason a lot of American cities are crapholes?
In other news, water is definitely wet.
If you read the article, the author eventually gets around to dutifully blaming the “legacy of apartheid”. Yet, under apartheid, it was a world class city.
Go figure.
Other than Twitter X and SpaceX there’s a reason Elon doesn’t reside in SA anymore.
Yes, but libs will never make the connection. It will always be a mystery.
Well, actually that is not true. They will blame Systematic Racism and White Supremacy.
Back to Mud Huts
A preview of what is coming to the cities in the US governed by the same kind of people sharing the same intelligence, mores and background.
Coming soon to a Democratic run city near you.
The under class has been put in control by the upper-class, comitting suicide
Didn’t South Africa overthrow those terrible whites that were ruling their country and assume control of it? Now they display anything but unity. This seems to be the same characteristics of many American blue cities today. They have a Black Mayor, a Black Chief of Police and a Soros elected DA and crime is out of control and the cities have become dumping ground those taking a dump.
If DEI had always existed in J-berg (as us former locals call it), there would NOT be a J-berg, but rather a typical African village with no permanent structures, no paved roads, and no other infrastructure.
So, at this point, it’s simply reverting back to its usual state, which is a typical African village. What makes it so different is everything ‘the white man’ built up is now making the reversion an ugly site to see.
Sounds like down town LA...
They didn’t realize with power you have to WORK to keep things from falling apart
Now, what does Johannesburg have in common with Jackson MS, Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, etc.
There can’t be a common element, can there?
Africa always wins.
Communism works SOOO well every time it is tried.
The under class = primitive savage democrat Pigmy cannibals.
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