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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Whether you like it or not, there’s a certain level of intelligence required to be a productive citizen. Look at a world IQ map sometime.
I took an old girlfriend to Acapulco back in 2008 and we stayed at a pretty good hotel. I believe it was Las Brisas. It was nice but my spider senses went off while visiting a little market in the city. Of course, it didn’t help that my girlfriend’s blonde hair made us stand out. With all of the narco activity since, I haven’t been back.
Rodrigo Duterte
President of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022
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Rodrigo Roa Duterte, also known as Digong, Rody, and by the initials DU30 and PRRD, is a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the 16th president of the Philippines from 2016 to 2022. Wikipedia
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We need to get Duerte to move to Mexico and become President. In case you don’t know, during his administration he had police execute drug dealers on the street by the thousands. Lol, for a time, there was a lot less drug dealing.
Unfortunately, Mexico is toast. Sad, because the Mexican culture that I got to know during my younger days was wonderful. Their respect for elders, their Christian faith, food and their Ranchero music lives fondly in my memory.
......me too, love the food when it is bug free and love the music.
Used to go to Acapulco several times per year. Then the narcos killed some tourists and I said to hell with it after that.
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