Posted on 03/31/2024 5:40:18 AM PDT by grundle
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. “Broken cars lie around and many residents put their rubbish out onto the streets and it lies there rotting.”
It was “far too dangerous” to walk around at night, he said. “The decay in this part of Johannesburg is massive.”
Mr Marais says the blame lies squarely with the municipality, where the African National Congress hold the most seats.
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Aaahhh....... That is a brilliant thought. It is right on the moneyan applicable to American cities as well
At one time White Afrikaner farmers were not only exporting produce they were also able to provide for those within SA.
The blacks took back their land in most horrific ways and now all that is ancient history.
Is it in the DNA of black Africans to destroy everything in sight?......it sure seems like it.....no matter what country they happen to be in. SMH
I had heard that expression a long time ago, but it turns out, there's a book with that title:
"The Liberal-Progressive Left has devastated Africa from the Mediterranean in the north to the Cape in the south. In each country the same process is followed; demonise the whites, (which too often they at least partially deserve), install a Marxist dictator, begin the usual ruinous Communist policies, drive the whites out, murder the opposing tribes, insure the "Great Leader" is made Leader for Life, begin the usual crony followers enrichment, followed by a collapse of the country, starvation, and total poverty. At each step the whites in the country and in the rest of the world are blamed. This is so common as to become a virtual recipe on how to destroy a nation and kill as many people as possible."
You are wrong.
The Africanization of American cities has been underway for a very long time.
Because they don't dare blame the reason apartheid came into existence.
I’ll say this once, and it applies everywhere.
Black people don’t care about the amount of misery, corruption, degredation, or outright oppression of themselves as long as it is their people doing it to them.As long as it isn’t caucasians doing it, they are okay with it.
As goes Memphis, TN.
Remember when Rush Limbaugh used to talk his undeniable truths of life ??
South Africa is proof of an undeniable proof of life, you combine a single party dominated country that is totalitarian at best with a race of people who don’t appear to be able to effectively run anything and the results are chaos, crime, and poverty.
It’s the same everywhere in the world, not just South Africa, as another Freeper pointed out, look at our major cities in the US, same combination, same results.
Remember when Rush Limbaugh used to talk his undeniable truths of life ??
South Africa is proof of an undeniable proof of life, you combine a single party dominated country that is totalitarian at best with a race of people who don’t appear to be able to effectively run anything and the results are chaos, crime, and poverty.
It’s the same everywhere in the world, not just South Africa, as another Freeper pointed out, look at our major cities in the US, same combination, same results.
Alas Wakanda!
That’s racist! /sarc
What did the late great Rush used to say? Undeniable fact of life or something. It adeptly describes J-burg today.
That’s racist! /sarc
What did the late great Rush used to say? Undeniable fact of life or something. It adeptly describes J-burg today.
I regularly watch a YouTuber who travels the world on her motorcycle. When she travelled through Africa, it was amazing to see the poor condition of the roadways (other than the newly built Chinese roads). There seemed to be no effort to maintain anything and even at the local level nobody would bother to corduroy the dirt roads through wet areas even when plenty of timber was standing right along the roadside. Don’t even get me started on the lack of bridge maintenance.
We should do the same thing for Hawaii.
Bingo standards have been lowered nothin good in return.
“In other news, water is definitely wet.”
If the taps are working.
What do you mean PREVIEW??
Already here as I see towns and cities across the States fall into decrepitude, crime and danger
They were told, over and over and over, this would be the result.
Now, the leftists who engineered this insist they have no responsibility for what happened.
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