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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Johannesburg turned black and it’s never coming back
Strange. What changed?
It Is Communism vs. Apartheid. At least Apartheid gave them Capitalism.
Gee, tribalism, communism, and the murder and ethnic cleansing of whites yields such confusing results.
Commies. What are they good for?
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It has become a dump under the Socialists.
Soon enough, they will pass laws forbidding white people from leaving so they can keep the maintenance up.
Like Puerto Rico after that storm , they’re waiting around for someone to do all the work for them
The Haitian revolution had nothing to do with “commies”, but if you want to know where Joburg is headed, have a look at Port au Prince.
I was in Joberg 15 years ago. It was one armed compound after another. You couldn’t walk outside of them. It was never a world class city, whatever that means.
It’s only returning to its African roots.
What does that have to do with the article? Johannesburg is not in Haiti. Haiti is in South Africa. Saint Nelson Mandela of South Africa apartheid fame was a Commie.
Johannesburg is no South Africa.
Strange. What changed?
The workers left
Johannesburg is in South Africa.
The ANC is nominally communist I guess, but mostly it’s just a racist kleptocracy hollowed out by corruption. Ran off most of the white folks who knew how to run things, and looted the countryside.
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Oakland is following the exact same path under the "progressives."
“A society built on MERIT cannot survive on DEI (ref. South Africa, and now USA)”
My Tagline and J-Berg is the BEST EXAMPLE, but there literally thousands of other examples.
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