Par for the course my dear.

South Africans thought running a country would be a walk in the park.

always was

@@bigmoz9900nah. It was a force back in the day. But we all know why.

40 years ago South Africa had 1st world style infrastructure, the cheapest electricity in the world ane a good economy. Now the country suffers blackouts on a daily basis, unemployment at over 40% and the South Africa is now one of the most violent and dangerous places on the planet.

​@@CountryGalBunemployment is 65%

@@user-ww5qw8jd3b Ouch.....I read 40% the other day but I'll take your word for it. That's horrific.

And its getting worse

Unemployed and mostly untrainable ....

For someone who has never been here you are embarrassing yourself on the internet, you aren't controlling our story anymore. Considering 90 percent of south African recourses are still owned by people who were enslaving this country I wouldn't be so quick to act foolishly.

nice man u get what u vote for or

And 55000+ are now multimillionaires. Fact.

Damn, that's deep.

Or they vote for more extreme groups lol.

The downside of state-run companies.

But the biggest reason is Britain and America.

@@savepalestine748 not laughable at all.

@@user-ww5qw8jd3b it's not. Our biggest reason is ourselves.

Affirmative action hires? We have those too Not the best people for the job The right colour people

Also trying to make it an environmental issue--which it is not. If the grid were powered by solar or wind, then the ANC would find a way to wreck that, too.

Al Jazeera is CNN fake liberal news and people are laughing at their terrible Activists disguised as journalists😆🙏

And the corruption in the government and political class.

​@human8454 the problem is also racist Black south africans making SA a reverse apartheid state by the targeting the nation's minorities.

Don't be racists... it ws the worldbank that caused load shedding to continue... Zuma had stopped it. Do your homework. And SA is more developed now than it has ever been. Wake up!

@@multiseducer1 well if international money organizations lowered South Africa’s credit rating , it’s because of the failed politics and corruption of the government since the ending of apartheid . When the government started taking white farmers land just because they are white , or when the former president builds lavished mansions while the world and his country is in economic crisis , and when the government can’t even provide electricity and water to his citizens , maybe foreign investors don’t see the country as reliable . It has nothing to do with racism , it’s facts .

Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal in the world 🌍 and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first.

@@willem2256 if that’s true , it just makes the situation even sadder so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make

Fokken diep gatte

full of deep potholes ay

and a metaphor of the road ahead I wonder XD

Yep, trying to destroy us economically.

I heard Bono is coming to live in SA.

What about "KILL THE BOER?"

Build in Europe

@@tshepishochuene1280 The infrastructure in South Africa didn't exist before the Europeans came. But you already know this.

@@tshepishochuene1280 Buddy, why is S.A. becoming a basket-case? Is it the Europeans fault...still after 30 years????

@@scottmac-cheeserae4531 I love how your kind would say anything to justify colonialism

@@tshepishochuene1280 So we agree that S.A. is becoming a basket-case. What the majority needs to do is stop stealing and take some responsibility. Why is this so hard? Rwanda is making things happen. Singapore did great. As for colonialism...that was inevitable. It happened throughout all of history. But it doesn't mean that we keep blaming the colonizers forever and ever.

Careful, an eye for an eye leaves us all in the dark. Keep a candle in the window for our SA friends!

be careful as tides turn

@@icraftcrafts8685 true

@@theprecipiceofreason I agree

South Africans have a misplaced sense of superiority over other African countries

ROFL "suffers"

Nelson Mandela was a radical anti-white racist that started the gradual purge of South Africa's native White population. I even have a video catching him red handed supporting the killing of South Africa's White population exposing him as the sham he is.

Let’s face it, South Africa was better governed under white rule.

Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first.😊

@@willem2256 how does that make the situation in SA any better? Precisely because of its developed and robust economy its record for poor governance is made even more dismal. The social decline in SA in the last 30 years can’t be overlooked. One’s heart breaks for all South Africans.

@@davidlang1125 The ANC government can end Loadshedding by banning exports of coal and electricity.

Tell the truth and put stats of all those who pay and non payers including Business in towns unless you protecting you're buddies too!

@@MirriamSofe-yj9pq It's true. Soweto's debt is repeatedly written off at the expense of the rest of the country. Furthermore, there are illegal connections leading to unplanned burdons on the system, leading to failures, damage, etc.

​@@jvanvuuren846160% of electricity in Soweto is stolen. That's according to Eskom itself.

@@gregorymalchuk272and also according to eskom loadshedding began in 1983

Have you been here? How many homes in townships have you ever been to and have lunch there? Don't embarrass yourself, you are not an expert.

I want you to do some research on the global climate risk index and sustainable energy as well as propaganda and see that a crisis is only created by elitism create inflation to keep the poor poor and the middle class in check by means of interest rates

Use black power🤣🤣🤣

@@franckcolomb5579 incompatible socket but worth trying i guess 😁

Lack of electricity is caused by the same thing in Nigeria and South Africa. Except South Africa didn't lack electricity until it became more like Nigeria.

​@@franckcolomb5579Lol only a guy named colomb could find racist jokes funny 😔.

Name a high-functioning black country with no White minority propping it up in terms of infrastructure and big business etc. NAME ONE

@@hubertcumberdale2651 Fokol countries like that

It is both.

it is both. do you think black people are immune from colorism?

@@nottheone582 "colorism" hasn't prevented dark skinned Indians from being literally the highest average earning ethnic group in the USA. Spare us....

Exactly right… the country has been in black hands for 3 decades and things have gone to hell…. They pillage their own people.

Cyril Ramaphosa IS a disaster!

Blind leading blind

Don’t worry the US is on its way to joining you guys there. I’ve wanted an asset swap of citizens between the two countries that should strengthen both

it was never first world.

SA was never a First World Country. Even during Apartheid. It's not a third world country even today. America is a first world country with a debt of $32trillion and rising. You call that first world 😂? BS 🤣

Well you had first world cities and infrastructure that you did not develop further. 1st world compared to Africa definitely

@@unamibokanedima151 Depends on what you consider 1st world however it was no doubt the most developed and industrialized nation in the Entire African continent

It still is the most industrialized, doesnt make it first world though.

Beacon*

😂😂😂

Bc when you let black people in power and in important places you get this

Blek excellence does wonders

Most of Africa is not in Crisis. 😂 What a predictably American question! You don’t even know that they have whole cities and film industries! 😮😁 You’ll see soon enough.

@@alephmale3171 Yup, you'll see.. in another 3 or 4 thousand years Africa will be the sh1t.

Botswana

​​@@alephmale3171t's like they've never heard of how successful Nigeria is being right now, I'm predicting that they're basically going to rule West Africa and be the China of the region 🤔

Thanks as opposed to the powers of doom who looks for all negativity without any solutions EVER!

Sorry

Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of coal and 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world 🌍. Before you say I am wrong google it first.

In your next election I hope you remember this! And tell all your friends to do the same!

Belarus = Russian vassal state.

@Hecpa-- Belarus? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Belarus is not a country anymore, Belarus has been absorbed by Russia and has a puppet ruler. The orcs are trying to do the same to Ukraine.

Well u all wanted one man one vote… enjoy it now. Ask your parents how good Apartheid was, power, water, security, jobs and strong rand and now?

then they would have to take some kind of action, I guess

Huh... I didn't know that.

Exactly!!!

What you mean is no competition.

Corruption is the issue, look at nordic countries, all of it built by the state. Stop thinking that privatising everything will fix the issue.

Power grids are state controlled in most Western countries, and they work just fine. Please do your research.

Every 3rd world country is like that. If u had stayed colonized u would now live in luxury like us.

@@franckcolomb5579no, we dont have that in kenya

@@cry13 go to the north, near somalia and let me know what u see.

@@franckcolomb5579he can’t control whether his country got colonized

Haven't they always been? Resources are more important than people

Portugal is 26.000 usd ugandas is 1163 usd. You need to do better.

@@nonox3903he said Uruguay not Uganda

They literally explained what that means in the video with better explanation than yours. Did you even watch it lmaoo

@@aat528 I said the *summation* is misleading, i.e. number of *days* without power. I didn't say they didn't talk about it in the video. A) Did *YOU* even watch the video and, B) Did you even read my comment for meaning before wasting both our time with your comment?

@@agrid2608 brilliant reply

How does this help?

Um…,we have 8 hrs a day of no power,this is every day

Townships don't have illegal connections since they are part of the grid. Do you mean the squatter camps (informal settlements)?

that is a narrow minded opinion

It's laughable that they blame Apartheid for the electricity crisis when the apartheid government GAVE the ANC multiple mothballed power stations that could be de-mothballed when demand rose because the ANC connected a bunch of electricity thieves in Soweto. They literally bought them 10 years of added time for free. Power stations can be constructed in under 3 to 5 years, so with good management, this electricity crisis was totally unnecessary.

How much do you want to bet that 40% of that went into the pockets of corrupt politicians, organized crime or warlords?

Check they iq

Im sure very little of that money goes into the country and if it does, its just to keep the military happy.

They have generators just for that reason

@skyking6989 🤦🏽‍♀️so sad! If I told you the worst thing, the worst thing is electricity should cost next to nothing, or just enough to let people feel they're doing their part. Why? There is so much renewable energy out there. Solar, wind, hydro, etc SA could install a Solar farm big enough to power the whole country and export the rest. For night time, they could install wind and hydro, sorted. It may cost a bit, but everything does at first.

@sandrajones8245 Can't make power when the sun don't shine or wind don't blow. Renewable energy is still years and years away. It just can't compete with coal, natural gas and/or nuclear.

​@sandrajones8245 Energy always costs. There is no way to store renewable energy, thus no way it can be exported! There is no infrastructure to support renewable energy and no money, not even "a bit" to pay for that infrastructure. Corruption and three decades of an inept government has doomed SA.

@markcynic808 OK energy always costing is true, although SA could have jumped on this renewable energy craze a while back and significantly saved on costs. There is definitely a way store renewable energy, how do you think EV vehicles do it? Rechargeable batteries. Tesla has gone one step further, they've set up a solar plant which takes energy from the sun, converts it into electric energy, stores it in Rechargeable batteries and distributes where its necessary. Now you're talking, no infrastructure yes, but humans should have realised this long ago, everything needs fixing, renewing, everything dies, so if SA spent the little money had on repair and upkeep of said infrastructure, I'm sure load shedding would be diminished from 6 times a day to 6 times a year, with it being a simple replacement of a shoddy instrument. Again you've touched on the cause, corruption. Stealing from your family is terrible! And leads to things like this.

Blek excellence ?

The result of believing the climate alarmists.

it was never a developed country only if you count the rich white minority

Money meant for the country and building the infrastructure being pocketed.

@@xtr.7662 It was developed. Look at the currency exchange rates during apartheid, the achievements in the medical field et al

That part of the video was extremely misleading. The age of the power stations has had nothing to do with it. The USA and Europe have coal fired steam-electric generating units that are just as old and older, and their reliability uptime exceeds 85%. The availability of Eskom stations is currently 50% and falling. It is because incompetence and corruption of the ANC and Eskom who have driven the coal fleet into the ground. All the qualified people were kicked out of Eskom and racial patronage hires replaced them.

@@gregorymalchuk272 no there are very much people in eskom that are capable of running eskom , it’s many factors including corruption , deliberate Sabotage, but the biggest factor is the global emission standards , did you know that there is a coal power plant in sa , that is only given clearance to use its generating capacity now but until 2025 , capacity of over 1000 megawatts . But because of emission standards , it was only allowed to operate at half , and we have 10 decommissioned coal powered plants in sa , half of them can be operational if we wanted to be

@@worldyglobal2533 Which 1,000 megawatt station are you speaking of?

@@gregorymalchuk272kusile ad medupe power plant

Not wrong but the blacks in this country are the only cause for all the shit happening now..

Agreed. Making this out to be an environmental issue and not a corruption issue is disingenuous.

@@gutsfinky It's Al Jazeera buddy they're biased as hell.

@@qwertyca how so?

thank god im asian

Oh sure, of course the problems caused by centuries of colonization will be fixed in just a few decades.

@saeidbinhossain8530 South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong were all colonies once (whether by western powers or Japan) and they are very successful and high functioning. "Colonialism" is no excuse. Its the quality and average IQ of the population making up that (former) colony.

@@hubertcumberdale2651 Thank you, im from a black country and I want all my people to hear your word.

@@dgd865 Don't lie you aren't black

This channel is full of it.

Honestly that might end with another chernobyl. Corruption within not just the gov but the workforce would have to be eradicated before even thinking about anything nuclear... Watched a short doc a few weeks ago about how so many facilities keep requiring service and spare parts, it was cause some workers sabotages the equipment for a quick buck. They get payed by the repair companies. So no to nuclear in SA for atleast a decade or two

South Africa told The United States to get out of their Country and stay out of their affairs so let them deal with their own problems ✌️😎🔥

There are no Eskimos in south Africa.

The legacy of apartheid will not be easily overturned

​@@PraisethesunsonThe legacy of black african Greed and lack of empathy for Their Own ... the World is Watching Your Hipocracy.

​@@Praisethesunsonwhat a low iq dark skinned answer to this problem lol. How predictable.

This is literally the ANC's fault

you're disconnected from reality. this mess is wholly the result of the ANC's corruption and incompetence.

The world bank doesn't cause boiler tubes in Eskom power stations to rupture.

Correct, former president Mandela & Mbeki failed to build a new power station & they were warned about this back in the 90's.Zuma tried but the cost of the new power station escalated due to tender corruption, the design is faulty & isn't functioning to full capacity.

Also the nuclear power station was opposed.

If all the coal burning steam-electric generating units in South Africa had an availability of 85% (normal western standards), there would be no load shedding. Instead, corruption and affirmative action have rotted out the competence level of Eskom, and Eskom stations have an availability of 50% and falling. Hence load shedding.

@@mankentsileqheku1623no loadshedding , Belgian in 1983 and we have over 10 decommissioned poweplants , half of them can be brought online , but they can’t because of minimum emissions

In development with the private sector, much to the chagrin of government. The public utility Eskom has been stripped bare by ANC corruption.

The problem is the corruption, not the public sector. Europe has a big public sector that works well.

@@mchlle94 in the last 20 years Europe has grown by 6%. America gas grown by 82% in that time. By 2050 the gap will be insane. Like comparing Malaysia to Japan. Europe is absolutely not doing fine

What on Earth are your stats? The US props up its economy through militarism and exploitation. It bombs and invades any country that doesn't adopt the Dollar. It offshores production of everything to China, where it pays children pennies an hour. That's "free market" capitalism. @@Tribuneoftheplebs

Being a rainbow nation is not synonymous with being good, you can be a rainbow and have all colors being equally miserable.

Wars are expensive activities, and when a government is economically isolated, the expense of maintaining an orc war machine, infested with corruption, becomes harmful. Wars take years of study, planning and in many cases the cost of making them prevents them from happening. Even before the war against Ukraine, the Russian economy was not something flashy. They had a GDP similar to that of Brazil and frankly, our economy is tragic with inflation and public deficits that make our purchasing power, generation of goods and services and per capita income always below the ideal. A war would ruin our economy if everyone in the world turned their backs on Brazil for invading Suriname or Uruguay, for petty and lying reasons like Pootin does with Ukraine. It's no surprise that ruZZia is deservedly going to hell.

You don't have any idea how currencies work lmao

@everypitchcounts4875---- And a U.S. penny is worth so little nobody even bothers to pick one up off the floor.