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Johannesburg, Soweto Run Out of Water as South Africa’s Utilities Face Collapse
Breitbart ^ | 03/18/2024 | JOEL B. POLLAK

Posted on 03/18/2024 6:48:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Johannesburg and the large township of Soweto nearby have been forced to endure several days without water as electricity problems have knocked out pumping stations and a late summer heat wave has strained reservoirs.

Residents have been forced to rely on bottled water as local utilities have turned down water pressure, or turned off water completely. And outside Johannesburg’s wealthier, leafy suburbs, spare water has been in short supply.

South Africa’s Daily Maverick reported:

On Sunday, 17 March, Johannesburg Water said the system remained under “severe strain”, and the bulk supplier, Rand Water, warned that its system faced imminent collapse. Many taps are still as dry as a bone.

The water cuts, low pressure and throttling affect the entire system; only some areas have regular supplies. Large parts of Soweto had dry taps and residents reported that local shops ran out of bottled water or could not afford to buy more. Johannesburg Water has between 25 and 28 water tankers – insufficient for the scale of the crisis.

Rand Water says the heatwave is driving the crisis, as its water demand chart shows. Southern Africa is facing its hottest February and March. … The weather is a factor, but Johannesburg generally has hot summers which are predictable for water planners.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: africa; collapse; johannesburg; soweto; utilities; water
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To: ChicagoConservative27
It gets worse than that:

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South Africa is the canary in the cage for Western countries as to what the end result is of mass, unfettered, 3rd world immigration.

21 posted on 03/18/2024 6:58:21 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
DEI on steroids??

Basically, yes.

South Africa is a one-party, marxist government, so they start with the notion of low-cost, under-market electricity prices for poor people (and ANC constituents). But its also corrupt as hell, and utilities are run by political appointees and cronies, who are robbing them blind. Everything is slowly grinding to a halt. Extreme violence and collapse is coming to South Africa.

Maybe U2 can write a song about it.

22 posted on 03/18/2024 6:59:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: Paladin2

so is wearing clothes and cultivating food crops.


23 posted on 03/18/2024 6:59:58 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: mikelets456

I just fear for the Whites that still have to live in that hell hole


24 posted on 03/18/2024 7:00:21 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Name one country run by a black that is prosperous?


25 posted on 03/18/2024 7:02:19 AM PDT by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The ANC will blame white people, and order their extermination.


26 posted on 03/18/2024 7:02:24 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: butlerweave

“ They killed or drove away the whites that ran the water system ?”

Yes


27 posted on 03/18/2024 7:02:39 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Competency and merit. The supply runs out where corruption in all its forms reigns. As things break, the diktats are simply screamed louder and louder, because "politics über all." In all lands and all times.

This is what authoritarianism provides an oversupply of, to the detriment of all.

28 posted on 03/18/2024 7:03:29 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: dfwgator

Have you heard


29 posted on 03/18/2024 7:03:52 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: ChicagoConservative27

South Africa is arid.

It was only made habitable when whites came and built dams and irrigation systems.

Which are now breaking down from lack of intelligent maintenance.


30 posted on 03/18/2024 7:05:07 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: All

They need to decolonize South Africa and send the Bantu invaders back to their countries and let the native white population take back full control.


31 posted on 03/18/2024 7:05:54 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: Tell It Right

BTTT


32 posted on 03/18/2024 7:05:58 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: butlerweave

And every other item related to infrastructure and FOOD!


33 posted on 03/18/2024 7:07:55 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s ok, they’ll all be here using our electricity soon enough.


34 posted on 03/18/2024 7:14:04 AM PDT by Baldwin
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To: Jeff Chandler
Coming to Democrat cities?

Probably.

35 posted on 03/18/2024 7:17:11 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Just remove the white colonizers from supervisory positions. What could go wrong?


36 posted on 03/18/2024 7:17:27 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Coming to Democrat cities?

Jackson water system is failing, city will be with no or little drinking water indefinitely

37 posted on 03/18/2024 7:18:12 AM PDT by marktwain (The Republic is at risk. Resistance to the Democratic Party is Resistance to Tyranny. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m sure Joementia will be flying them all over here for “humanitarian “ reasons


38 posted on 03/18/2024 7:18:22 AM PDT by Maskot (Put every dem/lib in prison........like yesterday!!! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
In the 1980s and 1990s, the world media was fixated on apartheid and removing Whites from power in South Africa. Nelson Mandela was depicted as the greatest living human on earth.

After accomplishing their goal of removing Whitey, the leftwing media lost interest in South Africa. I'm not defending apartheid, but the horrors it was replaced with have been far worse, yet there has been and still is virtually no reporting out of that beleaguered nation.
39 posted on 03/18/2024 7:18:43 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Red Badger
They can’t blame whitey now..........................

They will find a way.

40 posted on 03/18/2024 7:19:30 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF Captain & pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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