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The collapse of South Africa: Government and police disappear, energy grid implodes, half of the the country are unemployed and the nation’s infrastructure has crumbled.
Hotair ^ | 02/27/2023 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 02/27/2023 5:31:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind

With so many things going to pieces all around the world these days, it can be difficult to keep track of them all. Particularly when so much of the global news media’s attention is riveted on the war in Ukraine, other things can slip through the cracks. For example, were you aware that the government of South Africa has basically collapsed? And it happened fairly quickly.

Take a look at this lengthy Twitter thread from someone who actually lives there. The government and the police have almost disappeared, the energy grid has imploded, half of the people in the country are out of work and the nation’s infrastructure has crumbled.

1. South Africa has collapsed. US embassy is now informing international travellers to stock up (prepper style) on food and water. https://t.co/WLfG88D0Uj

— #zombieland (@k9_reaper) February 26, 2023

The Twitter user above wasn’t exaggerating according to the various news outlets that have bothered to cover the story. The country’s railway system has all but ground to a halt. (The Economist)

Another South African firm stumbling towards collapse may be even more systemically important, since it affects not just its home country but the wider region. Transnet, which runs the railways, ports and pipelines that connect sub-Saharan Africa’s most industrial economy with the outside world, is in deep trouble. Like Eskom, it was badly managed by hacks “deployed” by the ruling party and then pillaged through corrupt contracts, many signed during the era of “state capture” under Jacob Zuma, a former president. Now, weighed down by debt and with hundreds of broken locomotives, it cannot keep all of its freight trains running.

It’s not just the trains and the rest of the transportation infrastructure that has fallen apart. The country’s power grid has fallen well below the break-even point of energy generation and consumption. Rolling blackouts happen every day and much of the country is left without lights or heat. The roads are impassible in many areas and there is no money to repair them.

In light of the unsustainable stages of load shedding, key industries within South Africa’s business sectors have been preparing for a total grid collapse to keep staff safe and services running, reported the Sunday Times.

While The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) stressed that it is unlikely that a regional or national grid failure could occur, higher and longer stages of load shedding have sparked fears among industries such as the telecom, retail, mining and financial services sectors – with many executing scenario planning in case of a total grid collapse.

The number of people in South Africa relying on government grants and welfare is about to exceed the number of working people paying taxes. In the absence of a properly funded and staffed police force in many parts of the country, looting and violence have become commonplace. Because of what has been described as “an anti-entrepreneurial and anti-wealth creation environment” fostered by the government, hopeless people have taken to stealing whatever they can. And gang violence has grown significantly as a result.

So how did all of this happen? There were a variety of factors involved, including government corruption and organized crime. But a couple of years ago, in order to stay in the good graces of the world banks and the global climate cabal, South Africa agreed to ambitiously reduce its carbon footprint. They used to mine a lot of coal and other desirable resources, but their output has plummeted. Don’t worry, though. They’ve blown some serious money on renewable energy. You can see how swimmingly that’s working out.

Does any of this sound familiar? Do you recall when America’s supply chain buckled when our own transportation infrastructure tanked and cargo ships were lined up at the ports for weeks? We too have seen rolling blackouts in multiple parts of the country as we rush to forbid the use of fossil fuels and toss up endless numbers of solar and wind generation plants. And it’s not as if we haven’t seen our fair share of rioting.

It really doesn’t take that much of a shove to cause a formerly muscular infrastructure to grind to a halt. South Africa is on the verge of societal failure. And if you think it couldn’t happen in the United States, you’re kidding yourself.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: brics; collapse; donatefreerepublic; southafrica
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To: SeekAndFind

I have a dear friend from Durban. She a 25 year naturalized American BUT, she’s really stuck on stupid. Knows first hand what apartheid did to a functioning country, yet she still has a Mandela poster in her home…she’s a Boer descendent. ☹️


61 posted on 02/27/2023 6:14:12 PM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The United States led the effort to replace a racist white capitalist government with a racist black communist government.

It’s still racist, and if color doesn’t matter, then communism fails again.


62 posted on 02/27/2023 6:15:06 PM PST by Pete Dovgan
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To: SeekAndFind
The collapse of South Africa: Government and police disappear, energy grid implodes, half of the the country are unemployed and the nation’s infrastructure has crumbled.

The Communist, Affirmative Action, Quota, Woke, Prog Leftist, Racist State of Superior Negroes, is Collapsing?


63 posted on 02/27/2023 6:15:46 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: rhinohunter

All major cities are blue, even the ones in the red states.


64 posted on 02/27/2023 6:16:28 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The got rid of the mean white people. That’s all that really matters.


65 posted on 02/27/2023 6:17:09 PM PST by Bubba_Leroy ( Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: Republican Wildcat

If they haven’t succeeded yet, they are going to succeed big time when they soon have a Saharan-level economy.

It is the perfect blueprint for the USA.

Equity is grand when nobody has a job, nobody has any money, and everybody is a victim of serious crime.


66 posted on 02/27/2023 6:19:04 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (There is lots of money and power in Green Communism and we all know where Communism ends.)
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To: Mariner

African IQ average is probably closer to 70 or less (Western definition of retarded). So, generously, 10% are at 85 and 1% are at 100 (the Euro/Asian average). So, 1% of Africans have the IQ of the typical European/Asian person.

As such, the only functional form of government in Africa would be a dictatorship or monarchy run by the 1%. The average African is too stupid to exist in a democracy or republic.


67 posted on 02/27/2023 6:19:19 PM PST by In_Iowa_not_from
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To: adorno

Put the Wakandans in charge. They’ll sort things out.


68 posted on 02/27/2023 6:19:24 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: SeekAndFind

Just like the former country of Rhodesia, here, along with South Africa, or two of the wealthiest countries in Africa, especially South Africa. Tremendous resources of gold, silver diamonds, minerals, and here they are broke. Can you say thank you Nelson Mandela this is the result of incompetence and extreme socialism.


69 posted on 02/27/2023 6:20:31 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: TheDon

>>It’s not becoming Wakanda?<<

Indeed it is. If Wakanda did not have Vibranium.


70 posted on 02/27/2023 6:21:00 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: Spok

“It’s doubtful that anything can stop it.”

A good general killing would help, and that is where the Bidet crime cabal has us headed towards.


71 posted on 02/27/2023 6:21:09 PM PST by crz
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To: dfwgator

They destroyed the farmers and are in capable now of growing their own food to survive just like in Zambia they drove everyone away that was productive, and knew how to do things didn’t make any difference whether their race creator color wise if they were productive people in society they were driven away and now you were left with those that don’t know how to do anything much less farm


72 posted on 02/27/2023 6:22:44 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: TheDon

What was interesting about the Wakanda narrative is that they had all of this advanced technology yet they hid it from everyone in Africa, and would not share it.


73 posted on 02/27/2023 6:24:26 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Levy78

I’ve seen pictures and videos of Botswana and Namibia. They are okay places, not bad at all. Most of their industry is mining.

That being said they tightly control their borders to keep the bad influences from migrating north from South Africa.


74 posted on 02/27/2023 6:30:30 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Negroes behaving badly.


75 posted on 02/27/2023 6:32:40 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: Republican Wildcat

>> Did they succeed?

Beyond the WEF’s wildest dreams.


76 posted on 02/27/2023 6:39:30 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course the author doesn’t touch on the fact that under the post apartheid leadership, any African that crossed the border was given benefits and the right to vote.

Hence, blacks remained in power and raped the country.


77 posted on 02/27/2023 6:41:33 PM PST by qaz123
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To: freedumb2003

No Vibranium, but they’ve got this resource:

https://galnet.fandom.com/wiki/Gv312


78 posted on 02/27/2023 6:44:28 PM PST by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: dfwgator

>> Truly the only way you could transfer power to blacks... was a gradual process, but nobody had the patience for it. The crooks rose to the top of the heap.

but enough about Jackson, Mississippi.


79 posted on 02/27/2023 6:45:17 PM PST by Nervous Tick (Truth is not hate speech.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But besides that everything is fine…


80 posted on 02/27/2023 6:45:41 PM PST by PGR88
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