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Johannesburg's water crisis is the latest blow to South Africa's 'world-class city'
WMFE ^ | 04 01 2024 | Kate Bartlett

Posted on 04/04/2024 4:39:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

JOHANNESBURG — Lungile Khoza is at her wits' end. The mother of four has been without water at her home for three weeks, the kids are dehydrated and sick, and she can't run her small hair salon so she's losing money.

Khoza, 37, lives in Soweto, a sprawling township of Johannesburg, which is among the areas worst hit by a water crisis in the city. She says there are sometimes government trucks distributing water, but it often runs out before you make it to the front of the line.

Then she says, the water seems to cause stomach problems for her family, but — to add insult to injury — she can't even boil it because she's often also without electricity.

Khoza doesn't hesitate when asked who she blames for the current crisis.

"Our government is failing us, our government is so failing us," she says. "It's not getting better, it's getting worse."

Johannesburgadvertises itself as "a world-class African city," but a breakdown in basic services has many of its more than 5.5 million residents seething. About half of its population has been without water or suffering water shortages for weeks. With a national election set for May, South Africa's governing party could be punished for it at the polls.

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KEYWORDS: blackrule; brics; ccp; china; johannesburg; sco; southafrica
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1 posted on 04/04/2024 4:39:40 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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everything worked fine until the AFC took over running the nation. Now why is that, I wonder?


2 posted on 04/04/2024 4:42:13 PM PDT by rod5591
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To: yesthatjallen

Can we send them our blacks and the illegal aliens to help get all the infrastructure up and running good?


3 posted on 04/04/2024 4:42:27 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: yesthatjallen

Israel offered to build a desalinization plant, but they turned down the offer.


4 posted on 04/04/2024 4:44:14 PM PDT by LukeL
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To: yesthatjallen

When all the smart working people move to space the same thing will happen to the world under Klaus Schwab the World Enslavement Forum


5 posted on 04/04/2024 4:45:58 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: yesthatjallen

Good thing they got rid of whitey.

Otherwise, who know what would have happened?


6 posted on 04/04/2024 4:47:14 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (DEI = Didn't Earn It!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa
by Ilana Mercer


7 posted on 04/04/2024 4:47:53 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Biden left our troops to die in Afghanistan and our military equipment to our enemy. Never forget.)
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To: yesthatjallen

They should have gone with the Zulu King after the fall of Apartheid.

8 posted on 04/04/2024 4:49:07 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: yesthatjallen

***The mother of four has been without water at her home for three weeks,***

Reminds me of an “OUTRAGIOUS!” scene in Lawrence of Arabia. Now how did they solve that....Maybe South Africa needs to do the same.


9 posted on 04/04/2024 4:49:44 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: yesthatjallen

Isn’t it great to have leaders so in touch with the working class? To bad they’re not in touch with how to keep infrastructure up and running.


10 posted on 04/04/2024 4:50:23 PM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: LukeL

I thought Israel and South Africa got along well. I remember when they were accused of setting off a A-bomb they were working on in the atmosphere decades ago.
I said “Accused of”. It might have been lightning.


11 posted on 04/04/2024 4:52:22 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: yesthatjallen
Tribesmen genetically and mentally stuck in the year 1000 BC, trying to run 21st century infrastructure. Their high water mark was Rorke's Drift, and we all know how that turned out.

For a peek at the same modus operandi closer to home, look no further than the Jackson, Mississippi water system. Jackson as we all know is run by the descendants of George "Kingfish" Stevens.

12 posted on 04/04/2024 4:54:40 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
#7: "Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa by Ilana Mercer"

Thanks for the tip. Added to my reading list.

13 posted on 04/04/2024 4:58:06 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Johannesburg is not very different from the big, Democrat-controlled cities here in the US - where they embezzle and waste monty that should have gone to infrastructure (especially water- which seems to be the most common failure).


14 posted on 04/04/2024 5:00:15 PM PDT by TheBattman (Democrats-Progressives-Marxists-Socialists - redundant labels.)
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To: rod5591

Because the ANC are and ALWAYS HAVE BEEN a bunch of STINKING COMMIES and VERY corrupt!


15 posted on 04/04/2024 5:05:06 PM PDT by nopardons
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They have every right to run their country into the ground.


16 posted on 04/04/2024 5:07:09 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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HUNH?

You mean like the DEMS and RINOS here?

17 posted on 04/04/2024 5:08:51 PM PDT by nopardons
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Only if we allow it.
Jefferson: People get the government they deserve.


18 posted on 04/04/2024 5:12:25 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: rod5591
everything worked fine until the AFC took over running the nation. Now why is that, I wonder?

All the smart South Africans left, for better conditions in the USA.


19 posted on 04/04/2024 5:28:52 PM PDT by roadcat
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Between corruption and the inability to shut off access for non-payment, South Africa’s water and power infrastructure has been deprived of basic maintenance for years. The system is finally beginning to fall apart. Steady state may resemble Zimbabwe, given that the opposition alternative in upcoming elections is even more left-wing. Best case may end up being Nigeria, whose economy is propped up by oil exports.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_energy_supply_crisis
[Currently, only 45% of Nigeria’s population is connected to the energy grid whilst power supply difficulties are experienced around 85% of the time and almost nonexistent in certain regions. At best, average daily power supply is estimated at four hours, although several days can go by without any power at all.]


20 posted on 04/04/2024 5:29:22 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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