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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

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To: yesthatjallen

“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.”

Sorry, Lungile, but it wasn’t always this way. Johannesburg WAS one time a world-class city. You probably know why it’s now a bleep-hole city. Elections have consequences.


21 posted on 04/04/2024 5:37:54 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: yesthatjallen

First successful heart transplant was performed there if I remember correctly.


22 posted on 04/04/2024 5:39:22 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Or when we are FORCED to “allow it”.


23 posted on 04/04/2024 5:39:56 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SharpRightTurn

At 37, she isn’t old enough to know how good it once was.


24 posted on 04/04/2024 5:41:34 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: traderrob6

Never mind, it was Cape Town.


25 posted on 04/04/2024 5:41:48 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: traderrob6

Yes, it was!


26 posted on 04/04/2024 5:41:54 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: yesthatjallen

South Africa had one of the most stable and successful economies in the world until the ANC took over.


27 posted on 04/04/2024 6:03:33 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Ain’t communism wonderful!


28 posted on 04/04/2024 6:23:50 PM PDT by EastTexasTraveler
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To: traderrob6

“First successful heart transplant was performed there if I remember correctly.”

I remember that too.


29 posted on 04/04/2024 6:29:47 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: traderrob6
First successful heart transplant was performed there if I remember correctly.

Dr. Christian Barnard in 1967.

30 posted on 04/04/2024 6:35:53 PM PDT by Will88 ((The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.))
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To: Will88

Really...who cares? The racist nitwits who run that failed country deserve what they get.


31 posted on 04/04/2024 6:37:23 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp??)
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To: yesthatjallen

Where is the children’s father(s)?


32 posted on 04/04/2024 7:22:00 PM PDT by arizonarick
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To: yesthatjallen

“Our government is failing us, our government is so failing us,” soon to come to a city near you.


33 posted on 04/04/2024 7:23:59 PM PDT by arizonarick
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To: hal ogen
The people who neither voted for these people nor support them do NOT "deserve" what they're getting!

Did YOU vote for Trump in 2020?

Do YOU deserve what Biden et al have been serving up?

34 posted on 04/04/2024 7:25:27 PM PDT by nopardons
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Kingfish could have hatched a plan to take it down likety split.
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35 posted on 04/04/2024 7:40:54 PM PDT by whistleduck
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36 posted on 04/04/2024 8:27:40 PM PDT by Bobalu (I can’t even feign surprise anymore.)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

“Their high-water mark was Rorke’s Drift.”

IMO, their high-water mark was Isandlwana, not Rorke’s Drift. Went down hill from there.


37 posted on 04/04/2024 9:00:48 PM PDT by Bull Snipe
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To: EastTexasTraveler

“Back in Soweto, Zanele Sithole, a 52-year-old activist, says....”
You can’t make this stuff up.


38 posted on 04/05/2024 5:06:55 AM PDT by brookwood (If we pay $400 billion for Green New BS, do we get a guarantee that the weather will improve? )
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To: yesthatjallen

No concern anything South Africa.
They brought the house down upon themselves


39 posted on 04/05/2024 6:21:53 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Kimber .45 Be Kind.)
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