I’m from Zimbabwe.. 10 years ago when I was in highschool I told my SA friends that they needed to vote the ANC out or they’ll become like Zim. They laughed and told me SA could never become like Zim. A gross underestimation of what institutional incompetence can do to a country
As a South African who doesn’t want to ever leave this place, this video makes me so sad and so angry. The absolute and complete incompetence and astounding corruption of the past and present president and other ANC leaders has royally screwed us all, no matter what colour we are
Honestly you should leave, you'll have a happier life. Doesn't matter where you live, you make life what you want it to be, leave the country that is going down the shitter and go to another country. Maybe in 20-30 years you can return, especially if you are rich.
@@RM-el3gw well I obviously don’t personally vote for them. From my experience, and people I’ve encountered, it’s predominantly the less educated who continue to vote for the ANC despite the never ending empty promises
this is what's wrong with democracies, well meaning and informed people are bound by the idiotic notions held by the idiots you think your village is making life tough? imagine a sub-continent full of jackasses who think their sky daddy is superior to another minority tribe's sky daddy all the while making the islanders and the swiss richer
@@iinred1954 no hes right, the lvl of corruption of ANY government at this lvl will result into these conditions.... look at Mexico or Brazil or Spain or Ukraine (just before the Russian invasion Ukraine couldn't pay their bills and there was rolling blackouts)...
Having recently watched the ARTE tv Documentary about Mayor Chris Pappas ( fluent in isiZulu) of uMngeni Municipality on UA-cam, the DA is by far the best choice to take SA and all South Africans forward in 2024!!!
@@backendscroll3795 The uMngeni example is a case in point where the black majority voted for a DA Mayor for a better future for their town as well as for better basic services!!
I live in Melbourne Australia and have a work colleague who is ex South African. Last year his sister came for a holiday and one night I invited them to my house for a BBQ. My home doesn’t require barbed fences or extra security. My friends sister was visibly shaken by this fact and took ages to calm down. How strange that looked.
@Dr.Kraig_Rennah i dont think so bro. I come from South Korea, and while our country is very wealthy, we still have to study our a*ses off to get a decent job. For example,to become a doctor, you have to score in the top 0.5%percent in the college admissions test. A lot of people try years and years for that. (there are only one test per year) Also, PhD is a must(at least an MS from the most prestigious univ. In korea) in order to work for good companies like samsung.
You do understand that white farmers obtained lands due to colonization right? They forcibly took those lands. That wrong corrected itself that's what happens.
@@Vanceydress Yeah, is that so? Read this: "Zimbabwe's annual consumer inflation eased to 17.8% in October 2023, from September's 18.4%, mainly due to slowing prices of housing & utilities (23.2% vs 25.3% in September); food & non-alcoholic beverages (17.8% vs 18.4%); education (25.4% vs 31%) and communication (42.1% vs 50.2%)." Hyperinflation has slowed since that a-hole Mugabe kicked the bucket but his party's hold on power in the country and the destruction of the rule of law have meant the economy there is a basket case. This is because of violent, tirbalist black thinking. This thinking needs to evolve and change. Botswana has managed it and if the ANC getted booted then perhaps SA can come out of its malaise. I certainly hope so.
My nephew did part of his internship, to become a doctor in South Africa.....he said an ER doctor in Canada could go his entire career without ever seeing a stab wound to the heart.....In South Africa....you'll see one...every day!
Except for OPPENHEIMER BILLIONAIRES! "I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there."- Nicky Oppenheimer, Net worth: 8.3 billion USD (2023) Forbes
I know a Brit who did the same thing, he wanted experience which they would never give him in the uk. He volunteered at baragawanth hospital and dealt with everything.
As a South African living currently in Johannesburg I'm not exaggerating when I say this is just the tip of the iceberg we have a lot more social issues. The collapse is unavoidable at this stage ANC has done too much damage.
@@Truther945 Well for Johannesburg specifically illegal mining is a massive issue and it's compromising the city's infrastructure. The public healthcare system is falling apart as well as the public school system. Basically everything the government touches turns to rot. Some people try and make it a race issue but it's a tale as old as time that stretches across all races. The exact same thing happened in multiple Eastern European countries after the fall of the Soviet union. Politicians came in and promised capitalism and democracy but instead just put in place a system if cronyism which they used to enrich themselves.
@@ruangreyling2073 They promise democracy but bring socialism. Also even Eastern Europe isn't as screwed as SA is. The farm kills especially are so horrible.
@@Truther945 being in fear of violent crime is an everyday thing is SA. But you sort of get used to that. But ya, there are just feedback looks of corruption and sadly still quite a lot of racism in the older generation that just keeps pushing the country further done the this road. Eskom being a joke of a power utility definitely doesn't help things either though.
@@ruangreyling2073 It took eastern european countries about a decade to turn their countries around and they retuned to the level of wealth compared to the west they had ebfore socialism. Poland was never as rich as germany and will never be. the only outsider are the czech republic and slovakia, both should be much richer.
Black South African here. Words cannot express how depressed and angry these events make me feel. When the ANC came into power and for years after people said we'd be a failed state, and the ANC is just proving them all right. Youth unemployment, insane crime rates, the most awful service delivery... I had to stop myself from watching this video so many times before because I just thought it'd be depressing.
I work for one of the biggest Corporations in the world with a presence in SA. We employ thousands there in two locations. We're almost certainly going to close them and relocate them to the Middle East and UK. The constant thefts of copper which takes down the network in the area, the load shedding, the pilfering by staff is unsustainable. We're not the only Corp that is leaving or considering it. SA is a failed State, and there's no getting around that fact.
@@SmithMrCorona I watched louis rossmann's funny stories about NYC for years (real estate problems, the long period of riots looting businesses, tax and bureaucratic issues) and it doesn't sound like a place i would like to move to (I recognize it depends, some people are well off due to their fortunate financials to compensate for most things, some have a harder time). I respect that as a local you're loyal and promote it, I wish you well.
I am a South African now living abroad. My entire family left SA one by one. My 5 siblings and I all left to different countries, wherever we found opportunities. last to leave was my parents 4 years ago. I miss SA so much but I know I have no future there, and without my parents there it doesn’t even feel like home anymore. I’m very fortunate to have the means to emigrate and start a new life, but I don’t personally enjoy being a foreigner everywhere I go. But most of all I’m terribly sad that my family is scattered across the globe. This happens to a lot of South Africans. If you are lucky enough to live near family don’t take it for granted.
I have family there. They are woke zombies who keep explaining away how the difficulties there are really the fault of white American men. Not even joking. They talk like they are members of some kind of woke cult. Meanwhile they have private security from 4 pm to 8 am every day at their home, seven days a week, and also have iron bars over the windows, iron gate in front of the front door, even their security cameras are in little locked cages. The disconnect is... breathtaking.
@@dimodimov5298 If by "gave away" you mean "tried too hard to hang on to" then yes. Well maybe grandparents, probably not parents. I am continuously and repeatedly astonished at just how narrow-minded the whole colonial mindset was (and continues to be, in certain places) - they clearly thought they would be able to continue occupying countries forever, scattering favours here and there to "the natives" while raking in the riches. I was brought up with that as the prevailing received wisdom and it took me decades to realise _FFS no,_ when you try to exclude the majority of the people like that you end up having it taken away from you. Sure, colonialism didn't bring only badness. Try as you might you can't deny that having roads, rail, and electricity is better than having nothing at all, but beyond any debate the attitude to human rights was absolutely abysmal at best.
Didn't only bring "badness"? A culture steeped in innovation and forward thinking, aka Western civilization and values, can do nothing but crumble under the weight of "inclusion" of a civilization based on subsistence living. You can't have it both ways! To think that all cultures are equal, and all we have to do is "include" a non-Western culture into the First World is the height of white supremacy IMHO.
@@christopherbedford9897 - do you think there could have been any way to have created a society in either Rhodesia or South Africa whereby the whites could have remained in charge of running the country, but have allowed the black majority population to have greater wealth and opportunities for improving their lot in life? I'm asking because majority rule, whilst democratically just, has led to the ruination of these countries.
To give you an idea of how ridiculous SA is now, instead of actually fixing the blackouts, they issued a statement saying that the term "blackout" is racist, and renamed it, "load shedding". Truly the pinnacle of progress.
When SA was controlled by it's founding bloodline (Dutch), SA has a space program. Then the ferals took control and viola, Johannesburg lacks sufficient drinking water. MultiCulturalism is code for destruction of White Man's Western Civilization. Sad.
The only lesson learned from going into such a death spiral is that the government doesn't give up until it's hit rock bottom. Just look at Zimbabwe for South Africa's future. Zimbabwe has turned itself around after decades of race blaming socialism that never solved people's issues.
Yeah, nahh, bullshit. The two terms mean different things, and were invented internationally long before SA started using them. If you heard anyone telling you that story it was probably started either mischievously (like your repetition of it) or as a joke.
I worked at a private concert event in Johannesburg. We stayed in a walled compound and were told that under no circumstances could they be responsible for our safety if we left after dark. To go to and from the venue, we traveled by convoy with heavily armed guards. It was surreal.
I'm a South African. My dad's a primary school teacher. He spent years unable to get a stable teaching position here - something this video didn't discuss is how rampant and extreme the unemployment situation has gotten throughout the country, in every industry. My mother has been stuck in a job she hates for over a decade, with no room for promotion or growth and a salary that barely puts food on the table for all of us. The unemployment situation means looking for another job has simply never been feasible. The odds of finding anything else are slim at best. My dad finally found a job offer from Malaysia and took it. There teachers are well-paid and sought-after. We saved enough that he was able to bring my teenage sister along too. The situation in this country has torn my family apart. But if he stayed, they'd just be stuck in the same trap of desperation and poverty, with never enough money to contribute towards pension/retirement. For the people who can't afford to live in secured, gated communities, have private generators/solar panels, buy purified water, etc, who don't have high-paying and secure jobs and can handle the ever-increasing cost of living, the situation seems so hopeless.
I grew up in South Africa. The reason for the collapse and immanent implosion of South Africa is the corrupt ANC. The energy problem is just one of many.
The ANC was a Soviet funded and Cuban supported communist revolutionary group. Every communist regime in history has resulted in misery for its people. It was folly to believe ANC would be any better.
South Afri is doomed to collaspe into a non functional tribe sooner or later, as all afri countries do. Afris are far too low IQ to form and maintain nation states. This is why only developed and educated peoples, almost exclusively from Europe, managed to create functioning societies and nation states. Before white people showed them the way, afris were still banging rocks together and chucking spears. Cavemen. We uplifted them. As europeans, we spent decades trying to uplift cavemen from afri, and help them rule themselves. But afris are far too low iq for that.
I was working in Honduras with a group of South African expats. I was shocked to over hear two of their wives chatting to each other about how much safer Honduras was than ‘back home’.
A friend of mine was involved in the construction of Kusile power station. Kusile had a timeline of about 18 months and was supposed to be completed in time for the 2010 World Cup. It was finally finished in 2021. It was a source of many South African jobs and essentially the contractor was happy to take their cost plus and the government was happy to have a big employer and a perpetual source of bribes and nobody cared if it was ever finished. Periodically, anonymous vandals would come in and destroy months of construction and they rebuilt it over and over again. It was a 13 year makework jobs program. South African government in a nutshell.
@@jvanvuuren8461 What you are missing in your analysis is the World Bank Debt wracked up in order for South Africa to lose the asset to the world bank. Privatising our power which is the end goal just like Suez and many many other examples. Read Confessions of an ecconomic hitman. The Bought ANC leaders (not all) are owned by the Bankers who require a failed state in SA. Which is why the first use of the Phrase came long ago in 2014 when the idea was cooked up. Alan Dershowitz used the phrase tactically during the Oscar Pistorius trial.
When i see programs like that or how many Chinese governments are basically just building apartment complexes so they can tear them back down it always just depresses me. They're doing it as busy work and to keep people working but why not put that same money and resources into effective infrastructure projects? Instead of spending 13 years of funding and work on a 1.5 year project why not do 8 different projects? The country definitely needs more power but they also need some more water infrastructure as well as public housing too. It's not that bad here but I worked in government contracting in the US for awhile and found the wasted spending just depressing. I literally did work for a school where they spent around $1500-$2000 _per chair_ in the schools administration offices and replaced all the nearly new chairs with brand new ones (they "old" ones were in such good condition I took a couple and been using them for around 8 years now), they also spent around $2000 to replace a switch and a light in a closet, but that same school cant afford to give kids basic supplies like spare paper, pencils, and pens and they had to make budget cuts in some areas. Thanks to that kind of experience I look at some of these wasteful projects and all i can do is think about how the money could be better spent and i can see the many ways the money is lost due to corruption and incompetence.
@@Shinkajo When the money starts leaving the country. Unlike most African countries, South Africans have the privilege of an education, even though that is going backwards very quickly. Hopefully they have enough of an education to see that bad service delivery means bad government.
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No party polices its own internal corruption unless external mechanisms force them to do so: an independent justice system, media, other parties, etc., namely checks and balances.
What country? You're remembering through rose tinted glasses my dear. Significantly more than half of the population didn't have access to electricity, water, sanitation, or decent education. The crime rate was much higher during apartheid than now. And the funny part was that was all intentional. So tell me, if a country is able to provide a decent standard of living for less than only 20% of its population is that country doing a good job? If your answer is yes then you're more delusional than you realize. What you should be asking is imagine talking land from people and oppressing them, breeding them for hard labour and then when they fight for their freedom you turn around and call them ungrateful?? There's a special kind of hell for people like this. The kind of evil that doesn't even realize how evil it is the worst kind. The kind of evil that can take a cursory glance at South Africa's history and still think they're the good guys in the equation is genuinely disturbing.
'... fully developed..' for whom? A country stolen from the natives who were an infinite source of captive super cheap labour? How do you give away something that was never yours? It always was a mistake by Mandela and the magnanimous Mugabe to pursue a policy of reconciliation Kumbaya BS with the racists in Southern Africa. There should have been Nuremberg style trials. Now these racists feel like they got away with murder and are emboldened to continue talking crap about Africans in their own land. .
@@John.Flower.Productions So keep gathering your stones in that inauspicious European peninsula of yours. Leave Africa out of it. Africans have existed in Africa unmolested for over 100 000 years and equipped themselves splendidly from their environment.
I spent three months in South Africa, seeing the whole country as a backpacker in 2002. People kept telling me it would be another Zimbabwe in 20 years. I wouldn't dream of going back - which is sad, as it's one of the world's most beautiful countries.
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds, not to speak about all the fruit it has, no fruit gets imported, the wine farms are the best,
As a Zimbabwean this is all Deja vu. We’ve seen South Africa’s trajectory decades ago because, we saw the same thing happen to our country. We got over our own sense of exceptionality, we’ve seen it all. None of this is new to us !
I'm so surprised that when this utopia was given to the blacks they ruined it. Why didn't they turn it into wakanda? Why did they make it like the rest of Africa?
@@michaeljones1042 we gonna see. It's not the first time people saying this. Infact we always thrive more each time people people say what you say. We are South Africa
As a British software engineer, I always wondered why I met a very disproportionate number of South Africans in my line of work in the UK (including a former SA Navy engineer with a million fantastic stories about the old country). I guess this is why.
I moved to SA as a kid from the US in 1968 and returned to the US in '79. A good amount of my friends have left the country. AC - Alternating Current DC - Direct Current ANC - Absolutely No Current
@@Scalwag4087 your profound comment brings so much to the table! I still have family and friends there, so your crystal ball about other people's lives might need a little Windex. This is a public forum, so I'll move along when I'm good and ready..
I'm a South African who has emigrated with no intention of ever moving back and I'm not alone. It's sad to watch the destruction of a nation with such huge potential. Corruption all the way down.
South Africa was supposed to be Africa's lightning rod, showing the continent how to move beyond and integrate with its colonial past. Sadly, corruption, theft, blame, mismanagement, and any attempt to fix it is blamed as regression to apartheid. It's a shame.
@@ajc-ff5cm Which version of South Africa was the model for Africa? Are you talking about the Apartheid South Africa or the current South Africa? I don't see a model in either.
It is such a mess. I’m from New Zealand and my neighbour moved here from South Africa 10 years ago. They had a massive ranch but one day their barn was burnt down. The arsons then went to their house with guns and told them they were taking it over. They had to surrender everything and the next week they called it quits and jumped on a plane. It’s crazy to think it has only got worse since then
People will try to tell you that that's reparations the thing is though that that ranch will now be fallow. It will produce nothing and it will go back to the wild said it was when you first found. Naturally they will be left food sent into the cities and the food prices will rise
I’m European and worked in South Africa (Joburg/Sandton) in the financial sector for 2 years. I was surprised and impressed by the extremely high professional standards and technical expertise of my South African colleagues. Now, 7 years after my return to Europe, it makes a little sad to see the LinkedIn profiles of so many of my former colleagues, where the vast majority now works in Australia, Ireland or England. They have (had?) so much potential as a nation, but just had the ANC ruin it all. Once the smart ones start leaving, it may be a downward spiral.
It's almost as if the ANC proceeded to use it's newfound power to enrich itself and its friends, rather than actually work for the benefit of the country. Curious.
Over 20 years ago, I met a white South African who brought his family to England. He told that, when leaving there, he'd be more likely to leave the house without his trousers than without his gun - but what tipped the balance for him happened one breakfast time. His 8 year old daughter casually mentioned that a neighbour, three doors away, had been murdered the previous night. He said "Oh?" - and carried on eating his breakfast . . . Ten seconds later, the penny dropped; both he AND HIS DAUGHTER thought murder was *NORMAL.* He talked it through with his wife, and they booked their flights to England the same day.
Not so long ago, my father was speaking to a South African man who had moved to Ireland with his family. When asked what the main difference in life here was, he simply said it was the fact that his children could walk to school each day unaccompanied and without the threat of violence. It is such a shame. It is an absolutely breathtakingly beautiful country and anyone I know who has visited has been completely blown away by the stunning landscapes and kind, welcoming people. Devastating to see the country and her people in crisis.
It's just so difficult to understand here in Europe (for the most part) that a child couldn't walk to school across a city center or across any possible area/neighbourhood. For a person like me who has lived whole life in Finland, it's truly unbeliavable but sad above all for sure. On average, the prevelance of crime have reduced around the world and the world is a safer place on average but the fact that globally there are countries that are going to worse direction, some with an alarming pace is just freakin depressing.
I’ve just come back from SA. It was the first visit in my life. I was shocked by the level of crime, the lack of freedom to just walk around after the sun sets, the amount of places you cannot go into without being killed, and the absolute acceptance of this as the status quo by the general population. I was relieved being on the place back to Europe. I wish it would’ve been differently
It was already like that in 2016, when I visited, but I cannot imagine just how much more intense it is right now. I remember landing in Frankfurt and just..breathing a sigh of relief. I could once again walk in the street without the fear of horrible crime. A truse shame
I had a great time in Cape Town and Johannesburg, danced at night, safari, amazing museums, food, so much more culture than any Eurotrip people do over and over and over again.
hahahahaha, coming from a German and the current state of affairs in Germany and your insane political leaders I'd say Germany and RSA very similar . Trying to ban political parties that you don't like ADF, scrapping nuclear energy plants and then letting Joes Biden blow up gas pipe lines providing cheap gas as it competes with US gas , and supporting a corrupt Nazi regime in Ukraine with funds and arms. mmmmm a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
it is a self destruction. whites come, bring serious civilization and prosperity, they get docile, allow blacks to have power, and in a few decades everything crumbles. goes to show what happens when blacks rule a nation.
I left SA for good in 2007. The writing was on the wall. I still hope that one day my kids can maybe return but that also seems more and more unlikely. We haven't got much here in Spain but peace of mind is just priceless.
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds,
Good move mate. Very sad. But you're right. Peace and stability is firm ground to move forward on. Being murdered by a bunch of african thugs doesn't sound like a good way to go.
The ANC has absolutely destroyed South Africa. They simply cannot govern. There was so much hope at the beginning, but the ANC corrupted that. It is a shame.
@@silverhost9782again…people who lived like cave men a generation or two ago can’t be expected to run a country… no matter what the race, they just happen to be THAT race🤷🏻♂️
SA and Rhodesia were once the bright spots of sub Saharan Africa. They had good economies and respected currencies. Corruption was low. Look at them both now!
In 1990, Eskom was the biggest producer of electricity in Africa, it was not built to service the white minority, it was built for a growing country, and with a lack of maintenance and corruption, the current government made it fall apart
@@nsh1980yeah it'd be ridiculous to think that racism had an impact on the infrastructure of a country that was an apartheid state as recently as the 90s
As far and deep as my memory serves me Eskom served the white minority i remeber those days having a wood stove you were considered rich by nabours who were struggling to buy one the only change came after ANC took power
I remember in the early 90's, my school in the UK started getting an intake of white South African kids whose parents chose to emigrate instead of staying in SA. One of their parents was friends with my mum and she said that while she loved South Africa and hoped the post-apartheid country would be successful, she didn't want to risk the future of her children so she felt she had to emigrate. I think she made the right decision.
this is gona produce some nasty conflict all western nations have heavy immigration from people who resent us. I dont know how or when but within a few decades possibly much sooner a lot of people are gona suffer over this
What's even more depressing about my country, Nigeria, is that at least in South Africa, with all the corruption and incompetence, they at least gave the data to be able to study and understand what's wrong. In Nigeria we don't. Basically every form of data collection accessible to the public is ridiculously unreliable. SA's eskom releases schedules of when they'll cut power. Nigeria's nepa doesn't even bother
I fear Nigeria is headed for a long time of stagnation n possible decline in economics at the rate it’s being managed, you said it all, basically everything is manipulated and lots of unreliable data. I fear for my country because no one says anything, instead we’re blinded by tribalism n ignorance, why corruption has always had a good hold in Nigeria, years of progress slowly eroding away in just a few years… I’m only 23, any Nigerian can confirm the drastic changes on the cost of living in the country over the last 20 years, one of the lowest life expectancy in the world despite being one of the biggest African economies. Pray for Nigeria, we’ll need it for th coming years
I left South Africa at the age of 19 to pursue college in the United States. Given the vastly superior quality of life and job market here, I don't see myself returning to South Africa. Best decision I ever made.
I wonder what your thoughts are with the masses of people flooding in and our political climate. I’m sure it’s still better than SA but I’m afraid we’re going under.
@@Liz-in8lu Every country has its problems, there is no perfect country. However, I wouldn't say the US is going under. It is the world's strongest economy by far, with some of the highest average pay in the world for workers and it has one of the highest qualities of life in the world. As well as one of the lowest unemployment rates on Earth. The way I see it, Americans are so used to high opportunity, on point service delivery, and general prosperity that it seems like a disaster when the slightest sign of problems appear.
@@Liz-in8lu Just to put it into perspective for you how much better off Americans are. In the US, I could walk into a construction site or a warehouse, ask for a job and I'd probably get the job without too much difficulty. In South Africa, you're more likely to get into Harvard or MIT than to get the same job.
@@t.s5806 oh like corruption of our legal system. I wouldn’t say that’s not nothing to balk at! It’s a slippery slope and we are the only country with the amount of freedom we have. We will see.
@@t.s5806 cool. I’m going to NY in a few months. My dad, and I’ve traveled the world alone no problem, said don’t take the subway. Don’t belittle how I feel where my country is going. It’s perspective and if we are the powerhouse of the world and have the most freedom and that starts getting taken away - yeah I have major concerns. There is no better place to go to.
I'm currently in NYC with my parents and we go back to ZA in 4 years or so,I don't want to go back now that I remember how bad the country is at the moment and I'm only 13
I'm watching this whilst camping, having charged the phone off the solar panel on the camper. I feel for all of you though... not having access to consistent power and having to rely on a generator half the time, all the time gets old
I'm a black South African and appreciate how you have reported on this. It's neutral in opinion just abased on facts. I would dance my aging body half the day if ANC could finally be voted out, not just to see another party in place, but rather to see a democracy in action. They are no longer afraid of being caught out on a scandal, in a democratic society getting found out is supposed to cause fear as it should mean the impeding loss of your job but not with our politicians.
I moved back to South-Africa in 2020 hoping that I can contribute in its development, but it's a lost cause and has lead me to the conclusion that the country must burn down as we do with grass during the winter. I will leave the country permanently next year but will always have the memories of my youth to get me through the difficult times.
I think we can agree that most South Africans have the desire or maybe the idea to leave, but I think to have emigration as an option is for the few - might even say it's a privilege that the average citizen does not have...All the best!
Exactly, why they have to burn all the grasslands down is just crazy. During winter in Gauteng the air quality is so bad you can hardly breathe. And then in Cape Town it's the same in summer when there's no wind. Eish...
South Africa is just returning to its natural state. Within 50 years the population will be back to living in grass huts like it was for thousands of years.
This administration is putting many families in difficult situations. A lot of people are financially struggling to live, put a roof over their head and put food on the table. Things are getting worse these days, if you don't find means of multiplying your money you might wake up a day to realise you didn't plan well for yourself and family…
I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don’t know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate or bitcoin and stocks..
@@face2lune Understanding your financial needs and making effective decisions is very essential. If I could advise you, you should seek the help of a financial advisor. For the record, working with one has been the best for my finances...
this isn't just a problem for south africa. in South America, the coalitions that gained power after the dictatorships in every country that suffered one, became corrupt. Self complacency is a great threat to democracy. There's no will to close loopholes to prevent corruption, to emprison those who benefited from it.
South Americans flip between dictatorships and socialism. African societies seem to be more fatalistic. While the Brits managed to establish a functioning admin and legal system in their colonies, the Spaniards and Portuguese only exploited their colonies and left shit and destruction.
@@Rob-iz6nm no, it's not the same situation. You've always had the false dicotomy of a 2 party system with the same financers, in the countries i've described, the one who took power by vote, started ok, but then gave up to corruption.
I lived is a small rural town in central Alberta, Canada for a few years in the late 2000s. In Alberta's wild west, boom-&-bust, oil driven economy, it's not unusual to see large numbers of people from outside the province coming there to work; people from other parts of Canada mostly but also plenty from other countries too. Lots of money to be made in the boom cycles. But I did find it peculiar to see such a high number of South Africans in such a small town. At one point, I counted 3 doctors, 2 lawyers, 1 dentist, 1 civil engineer and 1 geologist and those were only the ones I knew about. I asked one of the doctors at the clinic one day (who was black, BTW) and he asked me if I'd ever heard tell of a place called Zimbabwe. I said I had and he further asked me if I knew its story. I replied that I knew the broad strokes but not the finer details. He said that Zimbabwe used to be one of the wealthiest countries in all of Africa. Horribly racist yes, but still wealthy. He then said that South Africa was following in exactly the same footsteps as Zimbabwe did and would soon suffer the exact same fate and anyone with anything at all to offer; wealth, talent, whatever, was getting the hell out and going wherever they could. He said that he figured the country had about 20 years before it collapsed entirely. He's proving to have been pretty accurate.
I'm q south african who grew up on Zimbabwe border now in my 30s I'm familiar with both countries stories comparing SA with Zim is something we did all my life at 1st the comparison seemed alarmist although we agreed on the decline this was prior to the world Cup ultimately the country does slip but its slipping in a very different way the comparison is lazy south africa has much more to deal with Zimbabwe simply needs to fall in line with global financial regulations qnd the world will rebuild it but south africa needs to retune every single sector everything is stresses from utility to skills available to competency to skills transfer where tr labour force is available and willing south africa is also massive its one of the biggest countries both in perms of population and landmass so it will take the world's combined effort to fix her up
@@Yuenplthe quiet part out loud is that there were highly productive white people in SA, reverse racism started to take place and they were replaced in their roles or outright intimidated into leaving by people who were less productive. The whole country had a large net outflow of these productive people and everything from wealth to talent simply evaporated, leaving a power vacuum filled by corrupt and incompetent leadership and workers. If you are wondering why there is a giant gaping hole in the "but why" part of this video, it's because nobody wants to come out and say that apartheid crowd might have been cruel, but they were efficient.
@@growlith6969black people say that the apartheid goverment was more efficient all the time. They are well aware of it. Most of them lived through it. Which is also why they're so angry at the wealth inequality and created reverse racism. Personally I'm happy that we don't have as many SJW's here, as they'd just keep pocking healing wounds and make everything worse.
I’m a South African now living in Canada, IMO this is a fairly broad overview of the most visible systemic issues plaguing my home country. The root causes however are complex and deep. Corruption, incompetence and poor stewardship has brought the country to its knees. It is heartbreaking to see so much potential being frittered away.
There was wholesale robbery of funds by officials. Government and power officials took out multi-million dollar loans from Europe and World Bank to upgrade the power grid, then they stole all that loan money for themselves and they let the power grid collapse.. It was fraud on a massive scale. State sponsored fraud. Corruption is rife across Africa..
a friend of mine who used to live in Cape Town, moved to New Zealand and we met last year. He told me all about this and i'm now seeing it here and understanding what went wrong is literally what sam is saying. He got it correct even from the very ground up. The loadshedding for him was insane how it was difficult to keep food properly stored and other major issues.
American here. I hired two South Africans last year to work on my house. They left their families' East Cape farms due to the impending collapse of SA. Both expressed great sadness at the loss of their way of life and having to travel the world for work. Their stories support everything I read here.
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds,
I am old now. I am not going anywhere, my bones will lie in South Africa. But like almost ALL of my friends, our children and grandchildren have left for other more civilized countries. It's very sad to live on in a country that is lost, but our families are lost too.
@@CoachmanHater Thank you! 🙏❤️ Me too. My more immediate concern is caring for my husband, who has dementia, and my rescue dogs. Veterinary care has become unaffordable, and there is much needless suffering.
@@ow_su it absolutely was meant to be nice I feel deeply for the violently oppressed minority of South Africa. Self hating retards who make videos like this should be forced to live a year in johan
@@ow_su Social media is hard for oldies. I hope you are wrong, but...live and let live. It takes extra energy to assume hatred where there may be none. 🌞
My first visit to South Africa was in Feb 2013. Capetown and points northward. I was charmed by the city and explored it without fear, solo. I returned in January 2020 and after a 10 day safari in Kruger we ended up in Durban. EVERY person I talked to from our guide to my Uber driver and Airbnb host cautioned me about safety. I had very uncomfortable 3 days. At the airport to fly home I talked to a local couple. I mentioned how unsafe I had felt compared to Cape Town 7 years before. Their comment " you would feel as unsafe in Cape Town now". A very sad thing to hear in such a lovely country.
Durban is a dump. I live on the outskirts of Durban. The municipality here is largely the ANC. Cape town is run by the DA (Democratic Alliance). That party has problems of its own, but they are the reason why Cape town is not a dump.
cape town did feel safe when i was there last autumn, but johannesburg was the least safe place ive ever been. zimbabwe kinda looked unsafe but wasnt in comparison
I worked in Capetown in the early to mid 70's. Law and order was good, the place was safe and I had no issues at all. So sad the country has lost all that!
To be completely honest, I visited Cape Town in February this year and felt so safe. I was walking around by myself everywhere with no issue whatsoever in different parts of the city.
Some blame also have to be put on the people who continue to vote ANC. Just because someone does one good thing for you, it doesn't indebt you to them for life.
Watching how the situation unfolds, I no longer think that the initial thing was actually a good one. I'd say that they managed to make rationale of previous regime vindicated.
From what I hear, one of the ANC's favourite tactics is go into the most impoverished slums of the country (which are mostly as impoverished as they are because of their incompetence of course, but they brush that aside) and hand out food and t-shirts, and in return get those people registered to vote. They are just one step, using actual money instead of favours, removed from simply buying votes.
let's be honest, not many VOTE for Democrats, yet they are still in power. If corruption is an issue in S.A. it's not a stretch to assume the elections are rigged.
As a South African, I had the privilege to move abroad back in 2018 and I can say its so sad to leave the country I once loved behind, but there is no longer a point to ever go back due to the shear amount of Loadshedding and danger just commuting around the city. I feel like we need a new government who has their eye on the prize and can bring everyone together to work towards a common goal and ensure long lasting success in our nation. Thank you Sam for bringing attention to this issue, as I feel like its needs to be addressed internationally more if we have any hope of fixing South Africa’s shortcomings.
Let me guess, you didn't really pay attention to what he was saying, as one of the things that he pointed out in the video is that people like you that left this country instead of trying to help build it up, is part of the death spiral. SMH.
@@RealFreak69 Why would anyone sacrifice their wellbeing and safety when they can choose not to? You can say its cowardly and not patriotic, but when it comes to living a comfortable life, or living in fear every day, its pretty obvious which people will choose.
Well, anyone that wasnt worshipping at the racial equality alter knew better. What surprises me is that how many simple-minded white South Africans supported the changes.
You're completely right. The meddling do gooders can now see what their moronic ideas have done to this country. I have a much stronger word for this than naivety.. Once the ANC took over and Mandela died, it was always going to go into rapid decline with massive rates of corruption... and ignorance.
I’m an American who has always been intrigued with South Africa. Sounds like the ANC is incompetent and not fit to run the country. There is a lot of potential in South Africa they just need the right leadership.
South Afri is doomed to collaspe into a non functional tribe sooner or later, as all afri countries do. Afris are far too low IQ to form and maintain nation states. This is why only developed and educated peoples, almost exclusively from Europe, managed to create functioning societies and nation states. Before white people showed them the way, afris were still banging rocks together and chucking spears. Cavemen. We uplifted them. As europeans, we spent decades trying to uplift cavemen from afri, and help them rule themselves. But afris are far too low iq for that.
So my family are a little bit odd, my parents moved to South Africa (from the UK) in 1994 because they took a gamble on what the country could become. I left in 2014, my family still lives there, and bru, my parents are broke as hell in that country. They are absolutely emblematic of what has become the "poor white" in South Africa. You mentioned how the black middle class grew to 4.5 million people after Apartheid, but you forgot to mention that the country has a population of 60 million people... there's basically no middle class left and over 50% of the country live in extreme poverty, and there are no support systems to catch you if you fall. Once you are poor in that country, it is next to impossible to dig yourself out and poverty does not give a fuck what your skin colour is. The vision of SA that people saw in 2010 was a complete facade even at the time because South Africans knew the reality but wanted to believe the optimism about what it could become. Not to mention, it's not just "the rich" that have homes like "fortresses", that is almost the norm in SA unless we're talking about townships and in the cities. And you also haven't touched on the gated communities as well where people literally do live in what look like "fake pseudo-Italian towns." Quality of life also just cannot be compared to many places in Europe, where things are relatively cheap in SA, yes, but there are so many every day impracticalities that you have to deal with and they are very hard to ignore (Europe is also really big, and there many poor places as well rich places, it's not all one big country.) In some ways, you've almost been too reductionist in focussing so much on the troubles with Eskom that you've neglected the two biggest problems in SA besides infrastructure: poverty and corruption, this is the real source of crime. People are desperate enough to do anything and nobody gives much of a fuck what happens to you. Not to mention, it's heart-breaking to live in a democracy and know that your vote is meaningless. It was a great place to grow-up because as a child you don't understand that so much is wrong with the country, you don't know anything else, but as I got older it became impossible to ignore the direction it was heading in and it wasn't positive.
@@sookie4195 Wrong. The United States is much much more prosperous than South Africa. Where I live in the US there is hardly any crime, mostly good infrastructure and we rarely lose power.
South Africa is similar to Venezuela and Argentina, rich or prosperous countries in their respective region, which instead of continuing to improve, have become increasingly poorer, they all share the fact that they have been blessed with abundant natural resources. It is of no use if you have a corrupt and negligent political class. South Africa, like Venezuela and Argentina, benefited from the raw material prices of the first decade of the century. Abundant resources arrived in these countries, so much so that South Africa had the luxury of hosting the World Cup, although it should never have done so with other priorities. That first decade made South Africa experience a mirage of prosperity, despite its mediocre political class. Once raw material prices fell, all long-standing problems worsened: unemployment, poverty, corruption, insecurity. etc
The last part of this post is the problem…the statement that this is a democracy but your vote doesn’t count is what is wrong with thinking a democracy is good. You might assume the US is a democracy, but you would be incorrect, we are a Constitutional Republic, and in fact the word democracy is not found in any of our founding documents. The founding fathers not only didn’t want a monarchy they also did not want a democracy where 51% of a population can completely control the other 49%. Our Constitutional Republic is supposed to provide individual rights that the Government is unable to take away. There are writings from the founders that explain the problem of a democracy is that it doesn’t take very long for it to devolve into a totalitarian state where the government controls everything. Someone’s earlier post shows this when they were surprised at how SA has changed in just 20 years! That is the perfect example of democracy to totalitarian thanks to the control of the ANC. I have been to SA five times, the first in 1969 and the most recent in 2018 and I am sad to say I might not go back again and also hope my friends and their family have a survival plan in place just in case!
"Trapped in a cycle of poverty". Yeah. I've heard that before. They could have the best schools, best infrastructure, best food and a ton of money and they'd still eventually revert back to that "Trapped in a cycle of poverty" gig. This was so very predictable.
While the collapse at surface glance only appears to be a recent thing (post 2010), digging deeper, you realize the collapse started almost immediately post 1994 in every institution. It just took some time for the collapse to become so bad that it now reaches every facet of South African life, a testament to the resilience of the once great institutions that have been pillaged non-stop since '94. The energy whitepaper from '98 is a perfect example of this, ample warning of the impeding energy crisis. Yet rather than invest and grow the sector, it actually shrank as everything that wasn't nailed down was stolen. Simply put, the ANC is not the liberation party they sell themselves as. They've been entitled, corrupt thieves from the start who've done nothing while in power other than enrich themselves. SA was actually liberated by international pressure.
RSA GDP 1975 - 42 billion RSA GDP 2023 -425 billion And more infrastructure been after 1994 than before The African government is doing more for it's people than the Apartheid gov ever did
It's ironic that SA decided to haul Israel up to the ICJ considering how much Israel has done for SA over the decades and how strong was the leftie Jewish contingent in pushing against apartheid. Looks like they were in deep delusion.
As one of the many South Africans who left in the 90’s it saddens me to see the slide. I meet many black South African professionals now in New Zealand. My partner works in recruitment for water infrastructure and pretty much all her technical placements are from South Africa. There is no way South Africa or any country, can replace these people fast enough, hence you see cholera outbreaks and deaths. South Africans are amazing people and the country sadly is only at 10% of it’s potential. There have been recent amazing helium, oil and gas discoveries on top of all the other wealth. It’s like God keeps giving the country a chance and the ANC drops it in the toilet.
Rich resources have little to do with a countries prosperity. This is due to the resource curse that happens to less developed nations. Corruption always takes over and a select few tries to get all the wealth which ends up lowering the overall wealth generation possible from those resources. So what would generate 100 units of wealth that spreads to the rest of the nation there only ends up being 20 units of wealth that go to a very small number of people. While the South African nation's people are rather poor the politicians in South Africa are extremely wealthy due to all the corruption.
@@AzureDrag0n1 true but there are many countries (America, Australia and Canada for example) who are rich with resources. Governments let the private sector flourish around these. Taxes gained are used for the nation building not politicial self interest at least at the scale that South Africa and others have. Governments around the world rarely spend taxes well, but at least the bare minimum should be functional.
@@AzureDrag0n1Norway and Australia have tons of natural ressources, where is the corruption ? In Africa EVERYONE is corrupt, corruption is not caused by ressources, but by IQ. If you're dumb enough to sacrifice your country's well being for some personal wealth, it will bite you in the ass someday. Now check an IQ map, you can always pinpoint which country will be the most corrupt, dangerous and unequal through it.
@@RazorsharpLT Singapore? Nice joke, look at the political crisis they having in june when dozens of MPs resigned and their ruling party is facing a succession crisis.
I'm in Melbourne Australia. Over the last few years I've noticed a heap of South Africans immigrating here. Such great people. Its a tragedy what's happening to their country
I took a week long trip to SA last year and was completely floored at the concept of load shedding and the devastation it causes. Basically you have to set up your home to be completely off the grid. Insanity.
I'm a South African farmer currently doing my paperwork to work in the US, 9 months a year. At this point this is my best option to secure my family's needs. I completely blame the government. Everything is getting worse.
you didn't defend your nation, nations are a people, different people - different nation, btw USA is not a nation its a state run by and for jews. Great job!
Nothing to do with the fact that we a;lso have a dispropotionate part of the land and economy, about 90% -that we have not been willing to equitably share or allow others o articipate in. Nothing of that sort at all.
Much truth in this video! As an aside, every day we (i.e. South Africans) read of tourists being shot, being mugged, being violently attacked for their dollars, euros, pounds, etc., and for their cellphones and belongings. Today a professor from New York was held at gunpoint and robbed (in Cape Town, I believe). Several German, British and Australian tourists have been attacked over the past month in separate incidents and at least three murdered. The police service is overwhelmed with violent incidents and murders: 77 murders per day, every day for the past number of years. All because the ANC government cares little for its citizens and prioritises self enrichment over governance.
new york is one of the safest cities in america. how about you update your stereotypes from the 1980s and worry about the european americans dying in places like kensington on the streets from horse tranquilizer?@@jondiotte3572
My wife and her parents left South Africa and came to the U.S. in 1995. They saw the writing on the wall early. They couldn't even sell their land or valuables. They just got some plane tickets, some suitcases, whatever money and possesions they could take, and just left. My father-in-law says leaving was the best decision he ever made in his life.
My father-in-law has just left SA after living in Cape Town for over 40 years. He was fed up to the back teeth of all the crime, ANC corruption and ANC incompetence and felt he just had to get out. He’s now back in the UK and enjoying uninterrupted water and electricity supply! When he first moved to SA the rand was worth about 30p. It’s been on a slow decline ever since and now it’s worth about 5p and still depreciating. I really hope SA pulls out of it’s death spiral because it’s a beautiful country.
I left SA for the UK two years ago. I'm a scientist and I had to run my own consulting company in SA because I was white and couldn't get a job due to quotas, so when COVID hit, I packed up and left. For 5 years, I earned about 1000 dollars per month and I was regarded as doing pretty well. The previously advantaged population, who are mostly white, has held most of the wealth, education and skills since apartheid, and if those with skills can't get secure employment and a reasonable income, then they will leave. My salary and buying power literally quadrupled when I moved. My black colleagues have also been leaving because the salaries and quality of life are too poor. And the country is just too dangerous. The ANC has completely mismanaged their population and chased away anyone who has any potential to create value and wealth for others. This video doesn't touch on the murder rate, or the rate of rape, or how common home invasions are. South Africa is like a warzone trying to be something else. Literally more people are murdered in South Africa than die in active war zones. It's just sad that this video doesn't give proper context.
What you say sounds identical to what I am told by all the highly trained and educated engineers I work with that left South Africa. These guys can easily find work. Reminds me of Detroit really. The people in charge there are so incompetent they cannot keep toilet paper in the schools, even when their budgets are 3 times that of the schools I went to. Glad you made it out.
The amount of money the ANC has stolen from South Africa is insane. It's possibly the only example of an economically prosperous country being absolutely hijacked by thieves. Edit: also including russia argentina venezuela congo and nigeria
Food for thought....International economists and financial analysts have estimated President Jacob Zuma stole & deprived the Citizens of SA from a future with opportunities MORE than Cecil John Rhodes' evil plunder of SA mineral wealth to prop up a British monarchy. Now there's evil for you. Cecil John Rhodes still left a positive legacy in the form of a going economy, a railroad, a stock exchange and a fantastic university in Grahamstown with a trust that funded many a poor South African to achieve a leading 1st World level university education. Sadly, more recently, students protested, pulled down the statue & renamed the University....thereby losing the benefit of the Trust money Rhodes left to benefit the students of SA. That's South African misplaced colonial hatred for you.
All countries have thieves in their government. It just a matter of how much they can get away with. There's plenty of theft in NA countries, just not to this scale
I was a young seaman in the early 70's delivering oil products to SA... sometimes Immigration personell would come aboard in Port attempting to entice crew to into staying. We weren't foolish enough to accept the generous blanishments and could see the future problems. Many many years later I was visiting Perth... West Australia and was shocked as to how many South Africans now living there...good...hard working people who will never return...I don't blame them.
Lets put this in perspective. After WW2, many cities in Europe and Japan were left bombed flat, London, Berlin, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and so on, their economies likewise. For many years afterwards there was still rationing going on but with hard work, there was a will to move on and get over it. Within 30 years all were completely restored with thriving economies and Japan had becoming a manufacturing powerhouse. Now compare this to South Africa, the opposite has happened, South Africa is fast approaching 30 years after Apartheid, the ANC has chewed on the fat of the cow till it is now skin and bones. When the ANC took over they had a perfectly well functioning economy. Year by year something breaks, is stolen or stops working but all is blamed on Apartheid. Money is either wasted on ANC pet projects, ridiculous ideologies or siphoned off by their own corrupt cadres. Just look at the trend and you can see where it is going. They brought in AA, BEE and made it impossible for a retrenched white person to become re-employed. It is no wonder, so many have fled the country, yet the ANC wonder why they have gone. Now their tax base has shrunk, the lights are out, the crime is sky high, the water is polluted, matric pass marks lowered, cell phone towers cant keep their batteries, farms no longer function, fake qualifications scandals, trains bought from China that don't suite the existing rail gauge, embezelment, mismanagement, criminal cartels, Kleptocracy in every govt. dept etc. This is what happens when a political party keeps running on a single good thing they did in 1994 while never giving up the vestiges of nepotism and unchecked criminal corruption.
What i find surprising is that black south africans seem to be okay with this - their hate for white people trumps their interest for living in a safe, prosperous country with a functioning government
Those countries did so well because they were in crisis and filled with crisis shock ⚡. South Africa had the exact opposite in a *windfall* from great equality due to foreign influence.
Sorry but you are incorrect. South Africa did NOT have a functioning economy. How can you say that when only white people were allowed to do business and have jobs? The ANC was no better. We need a new direction and EFF provides the solutions. They are not afraid to offend the privileged class and they are not afraid to speak their minds.
This just proves that a certain group of violent and primitive people will never be capable of making thriving and peaceful society regardless of the resources given to them. There's a reason why they've never built anything close to fully functioning civilization.
a family friend Tommy Edwards (Brother of Charles Edwards who caused the closure of SAAMBOU )was an apprentice instructor AT Eksom,THINK VANDERBIJLPARK OR Vereeniging and when first black apprentice was signed on he resigned, cant remember the year as he said then already this is going to be the downfall of Eskom,
@@Palmstreet-u7x everything was good before 1994 for less than %20 of the whole country of SA . SA never ACTUALLY had it good at all. Just the white and wealthy who migrated.
The ANC is arguably the biggest organised crime syndicate in the world... Thank you Sam for trying to bring this topic to the world stage... it brings literal tears to my eyes. I have all but lost hope. I will still vote though. Maybe it might change for my kids one day...
it is complete naivety && 'white guilt' to blame a political party when this was 99% to happen regardless after 'apartheid' was removed .... every single time in history blacks then immediately genocide the 'minority' of their country
@@ashutoshsethi6150 Not everyone is racist like you or hates people who have more than me like you. Stop hating people because your envious. If your against racism and people trying to control you, then STOP being racist back and stop trying to control them. You use GOOD to fight evil, not stronger evil. 💯
The cholera outbreak was not limited to the outskirts of Pretoria or Hammanskraal. The entire Vaal dam was infected. I know people from Centurion to Brooklyn to Pretoria East and North who were diagnosed with actual cholera, or exhibited symptoms. Hospitals around the city also had an influx of patients. The Government, both ANC and the mayor of Tshwane (DA) denied this and only went to Hammanskraal after a week.
Every SA I've met overseas has been a delight. Most have been white, but a few were non-white (what's the preferred term? Native African? I don't know). Polite, upstanding, hardworking folk. What was most striking was how much they all bore an intense love for South Africa, but it's difficult to go back (especially those with children) because everything everywhere is now an unsafe dumpster fire. Everywhere I hear "colonials ruined everything" "Africans/blacks should take their land back" "white people go back" etc., but actual Africans (white or not) complaints I hear are never about race. It's always about the lazy and incompetents ruining everything for everyone. It was pretty disillusioning. In the US, high school international history pushed the fall of Apartheid as some sibling to the American Civil and the subsequent abolishment of slavery, the equalization of voting rights for all citizens. It's really not the same.
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter Rooivalk of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds, yes the crime rape daylight muggings is bad
Im a brit working in China. Meet lots of South Africans here, both black and white. Whites always say the same thing, they never want to go back, its a dump, nothing works, crime is crazy etc. The blacks here are in denial about their country, trying to always mention positives and completely ignore/deny the negatives going on there.
The term is black. South africa is not as desensitized as the west. Although we recently did pass a hate speech law. So we're on our way there, but worse because south africa is under socialism
A part of me wants to leave because I'm white and anti white sentiment keeps growing with each new election. The EFF nearly have 20% of votes, the MK party just established itself this year and has grown a big following. Umkhonto me sizwe(MK) was the military wing of the ANC tht called for the complete destruction of whites. A part of me wants to stay though and maybe in the future bring education to the black communities tht need it, so they aren't so easily indoctrinated by democratic radicalism.
'GREAT SUCCESS"-as Borat says 😀😀😀.There is simple logic:demand and supply.Since the demand is MUCH MUCH lower due to closing of so many factories and mines and the mass immigration of so many people then at some point the demand and supply will meet and there will be no more need to pull out the plug.I suspect this was the plan all along to solve the electricity problem .ANC and their electorate are pure geniusses 🙃🙃🙃
i guess when the anc doesn't have absolute power, south africa can really prosper credit to the anc for willing to create a coalition government at the last general election with all the major parties :)
What is mind blowing to me is that a country like South Africa has a nominal GDP that is smaller than Denmark’s, while still having a population that is almost exactly 10 times larger.
Denmark total area- 42,952 km² SA total area- 1.22 million km² So having more population isn't an issue, but yes the comparison is justified, they are expected to have more GDP.@@Lemonz1989
Being an Indian where people get jobs and etc on the basis of Quota, I can say Quota System is a pleague that can only cause devide and can cause the downward growth in each and every field its there. Someone scores 99/100 and he does not get a seat in a college, and someone scores 35/100 and he gets the seat. Imagine how bad it is for the system.
We have that exact system in the USA called affirmative action. Also hire certain uneducated culture that shouldn't have those jobs based on color of skin
Corruption South Africa's issues may appear complex, but they aren't. It's rampant, unconstrained and persistent CORRUPTION. The ANC have used hope to line their pockets and those of their friends
@@talljake , you are correct. Democratic Socialism and Capitalism and Cronyism and Oligarchy can all share in corruption at times. I'm in the US, and things are corrupted in several areas. We have the resources to correct it. I pray that SA can overcome.
There's just something about Africa, in general. Tribalism won't go away, greed and bribery, yes, total incompetence. I finally understood cycle of poverty, visiting there several times. Just impossible, hopeless across the board. The mentality just breaks my brain.
The ANC inherited a developed country which was beyond the grasp how to have developed it themselves. It happened with so many former colonies in Africa, as soon as the Brits and French packed their bags, institutions and infrastructure was not maintained because of lack of ownership by the new leaders. The leaders have a mantra of 'Take what you can in the limited window of opportunity that is given to you'
One of the issues is also that this infrastructure wasn't really built to the benefit of the population (EG railways that only connect mines and ports instead of cities), and the necessary operational know-how was never shared with anyone. So the end result is that after the colonies dissipate, you have all this stuff in your country that people don't know what to do with, and that they couldn't maintain anyways. You can actually see a huge difference in countries like India, where colonialism built a few things that were actually mildly useful to the population, and those countries ended up quite a bit further ahead than say Congo. Then you add the political problems that comes from being a colony and then rapidly having to build up your own government - the kind of people who can obtain power under coloinal rule are exactly the wrong kind of people to actually run a country - and the rest is history
They wanted the controls of machine they couldn't maintain let alone build. All the people in the 80s that put pressure on SA to do away with apartheid are in part responsible for this. Their need to feel good about themselves doomed millions of people and resulted in many violent deaths. This is what the liberal world order does.
You do realize that the infrastructure of these countries was only ever designed to cater for a small minority don't you? What did you think would happen when the majority suddenly have equal access, genius?
@@Blaze6108 But none of that is the case with South Africa, which was essentially independent for decades before the ANC took power. South Africa was on the cusp of becoming a nuclear power, had its own military industrial complex, and an integrated rail network and airlines. It has all fallen apart and it is entirely and solely the fault of the ANC who destroyed the country. One only needs to visit Kenya, a country that had a less advantaged start which is a beautiful and prospering place, or Rwanda which literally had a horrific genocide 30 years ago and is now becoming the "Singapore of East Africa". Infrastructure issues from nearly a century ago don't explain the stark difference, nor give any cover to how the ANC have gutted and ruined a beautiful country and put millions of hopeful people into poverty when they were trending up in the last years of the 80s and under Mandela.
This seems very similar to the regression in Argentina but without the crippling reliance on massive external loans. Both countries were outliers of progress near the tip of underdeveloped, S. Hemisphere continents, and it would be interesting to see a comparison between the two failing states.
I have worked here for the last 42 years. Watched with great sadness how the country has been ruined. All my kids have left for the UK. My youngest left in January and will never come back thanks to these incompetents who think they can run the country. They have actually ran it into the ground.
I am so glad there is some coverage on this. I love South Africa, it was my home my entire life and I held out as long as I could - but finally last year I gave up and left the country. That final drive to the airport was heartbreaking, but at some point you just lose hope that it will ever improve. The threat of violence and consistent financial & social instability just consumes your whole life. SO many people are leaving the country now, but I really think that if the situation improves many of them will come back. I truly hope it does, not for me, but for so many of my family members still living there.
It's following the venezuelan patch. After all middle class and hard work people left the country, the regime consolidates power thanks to the poor and uneducated left
@@Who8mydamnoreos but nobody claims NASCAR rallies are full of Doctors & Engineers. When these people come to Europe, it is claimed exactly that it's all highly skilled engineers.
I’m from Zimbabwe.. 10 years ago when I was in highschool I told my SA friends that they needed to vote the ANC out or they’ll become like Zim. They laughed and told me SA could never become like Zim. A gross underestimation of what institutional incompetence can do to a country
Oh brother....
Hopefully they will vote the ANC out. It seems that that's at least possible whereas in Zimbabwe they probably can't vote out the ZANU-PF.
DA is the only option at this point. ANC are destroying a great country
I love Zimbabweans! They are so friendly and hard working. It's a shame how they often get treated by other black South Africans in the townships.
It doesn’t matter to Zuma supporters. His skin color and tribe are the only thing that matters
As a South African who doesn’t want to ever leave this place, this video makes me so sad and so angry. The absolute and complete incompetence and astounding corruption of the past and present president and other ANC leaders has royally screwed us all, no matter what colour we are
why do you keep voting for them
@@RM-el3gwI'm pretty sure they don't have a choice.
Honestly you should leave, you'll have a happier life. Doesn't matter where you live, you make life what you want it to be, leave the country that is going down the shitter and go to another country. Maybe in 20-30 years you can return, especially if you are rich.
@@RM-el3gw well I obviously don’t personally vote for them. From my experience, and people I’ve encountered, it’s predominantly the less educated who continue to vote for the ANC despite the never ending empty promises
this is what's wrong with democracies, well meaning and informed people are bound by the idiotic notions held by the idiots
you think your village is making life tough? imagine a sub-continent full of jackasses who think their sky daddy is superior to another minority tribe's sky daddy all the while making the islanders and the swiss richer
The regression of South Africa is ultimately just a symptom of the ANC’s epic levels of corruption and misgovernance.
I can think of other reasons.
@@iinred1954 no hes right, the lvl of corruption of ANY government at this lvl will result into these conditions.... look at Mexico or Brazil or Spain or Ukraine (just before the Russian invasion Ukraine couldn't pay their bills and there was rolling blackouts)...
Africans start to run country. Country starts to turn into the average African country.
Many such cases
Having recently watched the ARTE tv Documentary about Mayor Chris Pappas ( fluent in isiZulu) of uMngeni Municipality on UA-cam, the DA is by far the best choice to take SA and all South Africans forward in 2024!!!
@@backendscroll3795 The uMngeni example is a case in point where the black majority voted for a DA Mayor for a better future for their town as well as for better basic services!!
I live in Melbourne Australia and have a work colleague who is ex South African. Last year his sister came for a holiday and one night I invited them to my house for a BBQ. My home doesn’t require barbed fences or extra security. My friends sister was visibly shaken by this fact and took ages to calm down. How strange that looked.
Wakanda forever lol
@@ronaldmcboggled9855racist
@Dr.Kraig_Rennah i dont think so bro.
I come from South Korea, and while our country is very wealthy, we still have to study our a*ses off to get a decent job.
For example,to become a doctor, you have to score in the top 0.5%percent in the college admissions test. A lot of people try years and years for that.
(there are only one test per year)
Also, PhD is a must(at least an MS from the most prestigious univ. In korea) in order to work for good companies like samsung.
@Dr.Kraig_Renpro gaming is probably even harder to make a living off of than pro sports.
In South Africa every single person you meet will have been affected by crime in some way. Very sad stuff
A mate of mine was a farmer in Zimbabwe and left with nothing but his life. He told me years ago that SA was going to end up exactly the same as Zim
And yet ... so few agreed and so few saw the writing on the wall.
Rhodesia was also ruled by whites so your friend was smart. Any realist not afraid to hurt people's feelings predicted that.
@@derekp8527 Thanks for apologizing for racism. Zimbabwe is actually thriving but you continue on being a racist. Good for you.
You do understand that white farmers obtained lands due to colonization right? They forcibly took those lands. That wrong corrected itself that's what happens.
@@Vanceydress Yeah, is that so? Read this:
"Zimbabwe's annual consumer inflation eased to 17.8% in October 2023, from September's 18.4%, mainly due to slowing prices of housing & utilities (23.2% vs 25.3% in September); food & non-alcoholic beverages (17.8% vs 18.4%); education (25.4% vs 31%) and communication (42.1% vs 50.2%)."
Hyperinflation has slowed since that a-hole Mugabe kicked the bucket but his party's hold on power in the country and the destruction of the rule of law have meant the economy there is a basket case. This is because of violent, tirbalist black thinking. This thinking needs to evolve and change. Botswana has managed it and if the ANC getted booted then perhaps SA can come out of its malaise. I certainly hope so.
My nephew did part of his internship, to become a doctor in South Africa.....he said an ER doctor in Canada could go his entire career without ever seeing a stab wound to the heart.....In South Africa....you'll see one...every day!
That’s cap
Except for OPPENHEIMER BILLIONAIRES!
"I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there."- Nicky Oppenheimer, Net worth: 8.3 billion USD (2023) Forbes
@@RosslynR0
I know a Brit who did the same thing, he wanted experience which they would never give him in the uk. He volunteered at baragawanth hospital and dealt with everything.
Yeah theres no knives in Canada
As a South African living currently in Johannesburg I'm not exaggerating when I say this is just the tip of the iceberg we have a lot more social issues. The collapse is unavoidable at this stage ANC has done too much damage.
What other social issues make this worse? Do you ear for your safety daily?
@@Truther945 Well for Johannesburg specifically illegal mining is a massive issue and it's compromising the city's infrastructure. The public healthcare system is falling apart as well as the public school system. Basically everything the government touches turns to rot. Some people try and make it a race issue but it's a tale as old as time that stretches across all races. The exact same thing happened in multiple Eastern European countries after the fall of the Soviet union. Politicians came in and promised capitalism and democracy but instead just put in place a system if cronyism which they used to enrich themselves.
@@ruangreyling2073 They promise democracy but bring socialism. Also even Eastern Europe isn't as screwed as SA is. The farm kills especially are so horrible.
@@Truther945 being in fear of violent crime is an everyday thing is SA. But you sort of get used to that. But ya, there are just feedback looks of corruption and sadly still quite a lot of racism in the older generation that just keeps pushing the country further done the this road. Eskom being a joke of a power utility definitely doesn't help things either though.
@@ruangreyling2073 It took eastern european countries about a decade to turn their countries around and they retuned to the level of wealth compared to the west they had ebfore socialism. Poland was never as rich as germany and will never be. the only outsider are the czech republic and slovakia, both should be much richer.
Black South African here.
Words cannot express how depressed and angry these events make me feel. When the ANC came into power and for years after people said we'd be a failed state, and the ANC is just proving them all right. Youth unemployment, insane crime rates, the most awful service delivery... I had to stop myself from watching this video so many times before because I just thought it'd be depressing.
I'm sorry you have to live that way.
I work for one of the biggest Corporations in the world with a presence in SA. We employ thousands there in two locations. We're almost certainly going to close them and relocate them to the Middle East and UK. The constant thefts of copper which takes down the network in the area, the load shedding, the pilfering by staff is unsustainable.
We're not the only Corp that is leaving or considering it. SA is a failed State, and there's no getting around that fact.
@AHD2105wonder what they have in common
Reality... believe me
And S.A. will be bought up by russia for it's vote in the UN.
Can you say what corporation?
@@SmithMrCorona I watched louis rossmann's funny stories about NYC for years (real estate problems, the long period of riots looting businesses, tax and bureaucratic issues) and it doesn't sound like a place i would like to move to (I recognize it depends, some people are well off due to their fortunate financials to compensate for most things, some have a harder time). I respect that as a local you're loyal and promote it, I wish you well.
I am a South African now living abroad. My entire family left SA one by one. My 5 siblings and I all left to different countries, wherever we found opportunities. last to leave was my parents 4 years ago. I miss SA so much but I know I have no future there, and without my parents there it doesn’t even feel like home anymore. I’m very fortunate to have the means to emigrate and start a new life, but I don’t personally enjoy being a foreigner everywhere I go. But most of all I’m terribly sad that my family is scattered across the globe. This happens to a lot of South Africans. If you are lucky enough to live near family don’t take it for granted.
I'm from the UK but my partner is from SA. Gave you a like because this is almost exactly how she feels
I have family there. They are woke zombies who keep explaining away how the difficulties there are really the fault of white American men. Not even joking. They talk like they are members of some kind of woke cult.
Meanwhile they have private security from 4 pm to 8 am every day at their home, seven days a week, and also have iron bars over the windows, iron gate in front of the front door, even their security cameras are in little locked cages. The disconnect is... breathtaking.
@@dimodimov5298 If by "gave away" you mean "tried too hard to hang on to" then yes. Well maybe grandparents, probably not parents.
I am continuously and repeatedly astonished at just how narrow-minded the whole colonial mindset was (and continues to be, in certain places) - they clearly thought they would be able to continue occupying countries forever, scattering favours here and there to "the natives" while raking in the riches. I was brought up with that as the prevailing received wisdom and it took me decades to realise _FFS no,_ when you try to exclude the majority of the people like that you end up having it taken away from you.
Sure, colonialism didn't bring only badness. Try as you might you can't deny that having roads, rail, and electricity is better than having nothing at all, but beyond any debate the attitude to human rights was absolutely abysmal at best.
Didn't only bring "badness"? A culture steeped in innovation and forward thinking, aka Western civilization and values, can do nothing but crumble under the weight of "inclusion" of a civilization based on subsistence living.
You can't have it both ways! To think that all cultures are equal, and all we have to do is "include" a non-Western culture into the First World is the height of white supremacy IMHO.
@@christopherbedford9897 - do you think there could have been any way to have created a society in either Rhodesia or South Africa whereby the whites could have remained in charge of running the country, but have allowed the black majority population to have greater wealth and opportunities for improving their lot in life? I'm asking because majority rule, whilst democratically just, has led to the ruination of these countries.
To give you an idea of how ridiculous SA is now, instead of actually fixing the blackouts, they issued a statement saying that the term "blackout" is racist, and renamed it, "load shedding".
Truly the pinnacle of progress.
Ha, the (blue) state of New Jersey did the same thing, only it's known as "peak shedding."
When SA was controlled by it's founding bloodline (Dutch), SA has a space program.
Then the ferals took control and viola, Johannesburg lacks sufficient drinking water.
MultiCulturalism is code for destruction of White Man's Western Civilization. Sad.
The only lesson learned from going into such a death spiral is that the government doesn't give up until it's hit rock bottom. Just look at Zimbabwe for South Africa's future. Zimbabwe has turned itself around after decades of race blaming socialism that never solved people's issues.
Yeah, nahh, bullshit. The two terms mean different things, and were invented internationally long before SA started using them.
If you heard anyone telling you that story it was probably started either mischievously (like your repetition of it) or as a joke.
@@KevinSmith-qi5yn
I worked at a private concert event in Johannesburg. We stayed in a walled compound and were told that under no circumstances could they be responsible for our safety if we left after dark. To go to and from the venue, we traveled by convoy with heavily armed guards. It was surreal.
That happens when you hand over 1st world nation to the 3rd world people and mindset
And turning into a shit hole with in years.
I'm a South African. My dad's a primary school teacher. He spent years unable to get a stable teaching position here - something this video didn't discuss is how rampant and extreme the unemployment situation has gotten throughout the country, in every industry.
My mother has been stuck in a job she hates for over a decade, with no room for promotion or growth and a salary that barely puts food on the table for all of us. The unemployment situation means looking for another job has simply never been feasible. The odds of finding anything else are slim at best.
My dad finally found a job offer from Malaysia and took it. There teachers are well-paid and sought-after. We saved enough that he was able to bring my teenage sister along too.
The situation in this country has torn my family apart. But if he stayed, they'd just be stuck in the same trap of desperation and poverty, with never enough money to contribute towards pension/retirement.
For the people who can't afford to live in secured, gated communities, have private generators/solar panels, buy purified water, etc, who don't have high-paying and secure jobs and can handle the ever-increasing cost of living, the situation seems so hopeless.
I'm a malaysian
are you white?
BLM that's why....
So sad and so true :(
Welcome to Malaysia
I grew up in South Africa. The reason for the collapse and immanent implosion of South Africa is the corrupt ANC. The energy problem is just one of many.
The South African collapse is and always has been a matter of evolution. Some races are not as intelligent as others.
How many New Cars, Jewelry, Mansions, and Drugs did the ANC buy...The same thing is happening in Chicago with Black Lies Matter.
The ANC was a Soviet funded and Cuban supported communist revolutionary group. Every communist regime in history has resulted in misery for its people. It was folly to believe ANC would be any better.
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As a South African I 100% agree with this video. This country is collapsing faster and faster every year.
Why ANC banned ESKMO for building new plants ?
What's going on over there
I'm from Zambia
starting? it collapsed years and years ago bru
South Afri is doomed to collaspe into a non functional tribe sooner or later, as all afri countries do. Afris are far too low IQ to form and maintain nation states. This is why only developed and educated peoples, almost exclusively from Europe, managed to create functioning societies and nation states. Before white people showed them the way, afris were still banging rocks together and chucking spears. Cavemen. We uplifted them. As europeans, we spent decades trying to uplift cavemen from afri, and help them rule themselves. But afris are far too low iq for that.
I've been aware of that but what really is the problem
My family left in 1970 - thank God. I did a Google Earth search or the house my parents had built a year before we left. The whole street is a slum.
I was working in Honduras with a group of South African expats.
I was shocked to over hear two of their wives chatting to each other about how much safer Honduras was than ‘back home’.
Ooof 😰
And I was under the impression Honduras was the murder capital. I suppose it's all relative.
@pa_2600 in places yes
Haha damn 😅
Honduras is the most dangerous County in Latin America
A friend of mine was involved in the construction of Kusile power station. Kusile had a timeline of about 18 months and was supposed to be completed in time for the 2010 World Cup. It was finally finished in 2021. It was a source of many South African jobs and essentially the contractor was happy to take their cost plus and the government was happy to have a big employer and a perpetual source of bribes and nobody cared if it was ever finished. Periodically, anonymous vandals would come in and destroy months of construction and they rebuilt it over and over again. It was a 13 year makework jobs program. South African government in a nutshell.
They are still building on Kusile. Medupi was finished until it wasn't. They designed it wrong and need to correct the mistakes.
@@jvanvuuren8461 What you are missing in your analysis is the World Bank Debt wracked up in order for South Africa to lose the asset to the world bank. Privatising our power which is the end goal just like Suez and many many other examples. Read Confessions of an ecconomic hitman. The Bought ANC leaders (not all) are owned by the Bankers who require a failed state in SA. Which is why the first use of the Phrase came long ago in 2014 when the idea was cooked up. Alan Dershowitz used the phrase tactically during the Oscar Pistorius trial.
When i see programs like that or how many Chinese governments are basically just building apartment complexes so they can tear them back down it always just depresses me. They're doing it as busy work and to keep people working but why not put that same money and resources into effective infrastructure projects? Instead of spending 13 years of funding and work on a 1.5 year project why not do 8 different projects? The country definitely needs more power but they also need some more water infrastructure as well as public housing too.
It's not that bad here but I worked in government contracting in the US for awhile and found the wasted spending just depressing. I literally did work for a school where they spent around $1500-$2000 _per chair_ in the schools administration offices and replaced all the nearly new chairs with brand new ones (they "old" ones were in such good condition I took a couple and been using them for around 8 years now), they also spent around $2000 to replace a switch and a light in a closet, but that same school cant afford to give kids basic supplies like spare paper, pencils, and pens and they had to make budget cuts in some areas. Thanks to that kind of experience I look at some of these wasteful projects and all i can do is think about how the money could be better spent and i can see the many ways the money is lost due to corruption and incompetence.
@@Info7Dayfrom Hamas
This is because the people lack ownership. When socialism, communism promised you equality, and diversity, you lose accountability and ownership.
The ANC is the real load that South Africa needs to shed. It's a shame they have not policed their own internal corruption.
I think the ANC is working as intended. What incentive do they have to fix anything if they're making money off the corruption?
@@Shinkajo oh right, mandela was a marxist
this makes way too much sense now
@@Shinkajo When the money starts leaving the country. Unlike most African countries, South Africans have the privilege of an education, even though that is going backwards very quickly. Hopefully they have enough of an education to see that bad service delivery means bad government.
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John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
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No party polices its own internal corruption unless external mechanisms force them to do so: an independent justice system, media, other parties, etc., namely checks and balances.
Why is anyone surprised. Welcome to Zimbabwe 2.
The US will soon be joining SA if Harris is elected president.
yup
imagine being given a fully developed country with infrastructure and tons of natural resources and not being able to do anything with it
Lottery winners don't always know what to do with their winnings
Black excellence , what do you expect
What country? You're remembering through rose tinted glasses my dear. Significantly more than half of the population didn't have access to electricity, water, sanitation, or decent education. The crime rate was much higher during apartheid than now. And the funny part was that was all intentional. So tell me, if a country is able to provide a decent standard of living for less than only 20% of its population is that country doing a good job? If your answer is yes then you're more delusional than you realize.
What you should be asking is imagine talking land from people and oppressing them, breeding them for hard labour and then when they fight for their freedom you turn around and call them ungrateful?? There's a special kind of hell for people like this. The kind of evil that doesn't even realize how evil it is the worst kind. The kind of evil that can take a cursory glance at South Africa's history and still think they're the good guys in the equation is genuinely disturbing.
'... fully developed..' for whom? A country stolen from the natives who were an infinite source of captive super cheap labour? How do you give away something that was never yours? It always was a mistake by Mandela and the magnanimous Mugabe to pursue a policy of reconciliation Kumbaya BS with the racists in Southern Africa. There should have been Nuremberg style trials. Now these racists feel like they got away with murder and are emboldened to continue talking crap about Africans in their own land.
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@@John.Flower.Productions So keep gathering your stones in that inauspicious European peninsula of yours. Leave Africa out of it. Africans have existed in Africa unmolested for over 100 000 years and equipped themselves splendidly from their environment.
I spent three months in South Africa, seeing the whole country as a backpacker in 2002. People kept telling me it would be another Zimbabwe in 20 years. I wouldn't dream of going back - which is sad, as it's one of the world's most beautiful countries.
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds, not to speak about all the fruit it has, no fruit gets imported, the wine farms are the best,
zim is safer to back pack .
Stay far away from South Africa 🌍🌍🌍
we left years ago. even bulgaria on a bad day is better and normal. s a is a marxist zhit hol banana republic @@Palmstreet-u7x
Let it go back to a third world country mandala did not do them any favors they can't run a country they get what they vote for
As a Zimbabwean this is all Deja vu. We’ve seen South Africa’s trajectory decades ago because, we saw the same thing happen to our country. We got over our own sense of exceptionality, we’ve seen it all. None of this is new to us !
Zimbabwean settler.
@@thuthukanisjaka2597 settled where? Certainly not in South Africa
@@faro99ru You are a settler.
The South African black people will be humbled one day.@@faro99ru
@@thuthukanisjaka2597 not even black people want to go to south africa :(
I feel this is the biggest “told you so” in global history.
I'm so surprised that when this utopia was given to the blacks they ruined it.
Why didn't they turn it into wakanda?
Why did they make it like the rest of Africa?
It won't be
@@SiphosihleSithole but it clearly is.
@@michaeljones1042 we gonna see. It's not the first time people saying this. Infact we always thrive more each time people people say what you say. We are South Africa
The West is heading towards this too, because of woke progressives.
As a British software engineer, I always wondered why I met a very disproportionate number of South Africans in my line of work in the UK (including a former SA Navy engineer with a million fantastic stories about the old country). I guess this is why.
The truth is Africans ruin everything. Look at Zimbabwe. If u want to fix s.a u start by removing zanu pf . Then anc
@@Sataka23clipsAHH yes because White and Indian _"contractors"_ are definitely not benefitting from the corrupt ANCs kickbacks 🤦🏾♂️
@@IK_MKSo as everyone is saying ANC has been the problem from the start.. fought to keep out federalism so they have even more power.
The UK is on the same track demographically speaking.
Imagine being a white man in a nation that doesn't care about keeping white men in power. Well, you'll find out soon, most likely.
I moved to SA as a kid from the US in 1968 and returned to the US in '79. A good amount of my friends have left the country.
AC - Alternating Current
DC - Direct Current
ANC - Absolutely No Current
@@Scalwag4087 your profound comment brings so much to the table! I still have family and friends there, so your crystal ball about other people's lives might need a little Windex. This is a public forum, so I'll move along when I'm good and ready..
just like evrry place else on the planet these people operate.
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I thought I heard that wealthy people could not leave the country with more than a curtain amount of money. Something like $10,000 US
I'm a South African who has emigrated with no intention of ever moving back and I'm not alone. It's sad to watch the destruction of a nation with such huge potential. Corruption all the way down.
I have a SA friend here in Canada. He left in the 90s and has never gone back.
Where did you go?
South Africa was supposed to be Africa's lightning rod, showing the continent how to move beyond and integrate with its colonial past. Sadly, corruption, theft, blame, mismanagement, and any attempt to fix it is blamed as regression to apartheid. It's a shame.
There are so few corruption-free nations in Africa - but surely those are the model for the rest.
@@ajc-ff5cm Which version of South Africa was the model for Africa? Are you talking about the Apartheid South Africa or the current South Africa? I don't see a model in either.
This was the most easily predicted outcome in history
It is such a mess. I’m from New Zealand and my neighbour moved here from South Africa 10 years ago. They had a massive ranch but one day their barn was burnt down. The arsons then went to their house with guns and told them they were taking it over. They had to surrender everything and the next week they called it quits and jumped on a plane. It’s crazy to think it has only got worse since then
Stop spreading fake news
@@SA_PASFKeep your blinders on yourself.
People will try to tell you that that's reparations the thing is though that that ranch will now be fallow. It will produce nothing and it will go back to the wild said it was when you first found. Naturally they will be left food sent into the cities and the food prices will rise
based
@@SA_PASF please explain how it's fake news, i have lost several friends in similar scenarios where the perpetrators decided to just shoot instead.
I’m European and worked in South Africa (Joburg/Sandton) in the financial sector for 2 years. I was surprised and impressed by the extremely high professional standards and technical expertise of my South African colleagues. Now, 7 years after my return to Europe, it makes a little sad to see the LinkedIn profiles of so many of my former colleagues, where the vast majority now works in Australia, Ireland or England. They have (had?) so much potential as a nation, but just had the ANC ruin it all. Once the smart ones start leaving, it may be a downward spiral.
Yup. Everyone competent leaves.
We were once a first world country.
Wow this is comment is so weird
@@QuestionsIAskMyself What's so weird about it?
@@seneca983 Nothing. UA-cam is awash with idiots posting comments.
It's almost as if the ANC proceeded to use it's newfound power to enrich itself and its friends, rather than actually work for the benefit of the country. Curious.
Tribalism and corruption is part of the system in Africa
@@thecatat7 what really? A country with every second headline being about corruption being corrupt. Can't be
That is exactly what happened. Pretty much from day 1
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Welcome to liberal capitalism
Over 20 years ago, I met a white South African who brought his family to England. He told that, when leaving there, he'd be more likely to leave the house without his trousers than without his gun - but what tipped the balance for him happened one breakfast time.
His 8 year old daughter casually mentioned that a neighbour, three doors away, had been murdered the previous night. He said "Oh?" - and carried on eating his breakfast . . .
Ten seconds later, the penny dropped; both he AND HIS DAUGHTER thought murder was *NORMAL.* He talked it through with his wife, and they booked their flights to England the same day.
Not so long ago, my father was speaking to a South African man who had moved to Ireland with his family. When asked what the main difference in life here was, he simply said it was the fact that his children could walk to school each day unaccompanied and without the threat of violence. It is such a shame. It is an absolutely breathtakingly beautiful country and anyone I know who has visited has been completely blown away by the stunning landscapes and kind, welcoming people. Devastating to see the country and her people in crisis.
It's just so difficult to understand here in Europe (for the most part) that a child couldn't walk to school across a city center or across any possible area/neighbourhood. For a person like me who has lived whole life in Finland, it's truly unbeliavable but sad above all for sure.
On average, the prevelance of crime have reduced around the world and the world is a safer place on average but the fact that globally there are countries that are going to worse direction, some with an alarming pace is just freakin depressing.
Typical racist white
@@TheCatLady65 Commie murderer. Pay for Yalta.
Don’t worry thank to exactly what he did, things will change !
South Africa won’t be in a better place, it’s just that Europe will follow.
Time and again I read about the "kind, welcoming" people. Those kind, welcoming people keep voting the wrong party.
I’ve just come back from SA. It was the first visit in my life. I was shocked by the level of crime, the lack of freedom to just walk around after the sun sets, the amount of places you cannot go into without being killed, and the absolute acceptance of this as the status quo by the general population. I was relieved being on the place back to Europe. I wish it would’ve been differently
It was already like that in 2016, when I visited, but I cannot imagine just how much more intense it is right now. I remember landing in Frankfurt and just..breathing a sigh of relief. I could once again walk in the street without the fear of horrible crime. A truse shame
I had a great time in Cape Town and Johannesburg, danced at night, safari, amazing museums, food, so much more culture than any Eurotrip people do over and over and over again.
@@kria9119doesn't Frankfurt have horrendous drug abuse and prostitution around the main train station. Food in Germany is horrible
" the lack of freedom to just walk around after the sun sets," hahaha! sounds like France in the present state :
It’s the same in Chicago…..or any Democrat city
As a German, I lived in SA for 6 years. Spot on. The self destruction is insane
hahahahaha, coming from a German and the current state of affairs in Germany and your insane political leaders I'd say Germany and RSA very similar . Trying to ban political parties that you don't like ADF, scrapping nuclear energy plants and then letting Joes Biden blow up gas pipe lines providing cheap gas as it competes with US gas , and supporting a corrupt Nazi regime in Ukraine with funds and arms. mmmmm a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.
it is a self destruction. whites come, bring serious civilization and prosperity, they get docile, allow blacks to have power, and in a few decades everything crumbles. goes to show what happens when blacks rule a nation.
May I ask why do you live there?
@@VladVlad-ul1io my dad worked there. I was just a kid back in 2010
And 100% predicted.
Who could've known this would happen? *Shocked Pikachu face*
The solution must be more diversity
Stop noticing things.
I left SA for good in 2007. The writing was on the wall. I still hope that one day my kids can maybe return but that also seems more and more unlikely. We haven't got much here in Spain but peace of mind is just priceless.
Spain has allowed millions of Africans in.,...
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds,
spain we left . but s a we gladly left years ago. Gibraltar is a tax free zone for many things .
Africa is exactly how i expect it to be. A shit show.
Good move mate. Very sad. But you're right. Peace and stability is firm ground to move forward on. Being murdered by a bunch of african thugs doesn't sound like a good way to go.
The ANC has absolutely destroyed South Africa. They simply cannot govern. There was so much hope at the beginning, but the ANC corrupted that. It is a shame.
The country was destroyed long before the ANC, do you not know history?
They didn’t destroy South Africa; the economy hasn’t collapsed despite all the shit the ANC lets it endure.
Like the bible says man can't rule over man. Corruption is everywhere
@@NearQuasarAt some point, after 29 years of governance yes. It's their fault. And no one else's.
ANC = African National Criminals.
South Africa is just about the the most stunning display of self-sabotage that I can remember ever happening.
You’ve never heard of Zimbabwe?
Or Haiti?
Wonder what the connecting factor is between the 3 countries listed above?🧐
@@silverhost9782again…people who lived like cave men a generation or two ago can’t be expected to run a country… no matter what the race, they just happen to be THAT race🤷🏻♂️
@@silverhost9782Ssshhh don't mention the obvious.
SA and Rhodesia were once the bright spots of sub Saharan Africa. They had good economies and respected currencies. Corruption was low. Look at them both now!
Natives didn't have electricity or running water in their homes
Easy to have a "bright spot" if you're only catering to 15% of the population
In 1990, Eskom was the biggest producer of electricity in Africa, it was not built to service the white minority, it was built for a growing country, and with a lack of maintenance and corruption, the current government made it fall apart
Yeah I went to South Africa last last year, and I was very surprised that we will have power shortages
Can’t miss a single opportunity to suggest racism as the cause of everything
@@nsh1980 not racism, just government, there's a massive difference, i believe there are better black leaders than the pathetic ones we have now
@@nsh1980yeah it'd be ridiculous to think that racism had an impact on the infrastructure of a country that was an apartheid state as recently as the 90s
As far and deep as my memory serves me Eskom served the white minority i remeber those days having a wood stove you were considered rich by nabours who were struggling to buy one the only change came after ANC took power
I remember in the early 90's, my school in the UK started getting an intake of white South African kids whose parents chose to emigrate instead of staying in SA. One of their parents was friends with my mum and she said that while she loved South Africa and hoped the post-apartheid country would be successful, she didn't want to risk the future of her children so she felt she had to emigrate. I think she made the right decision.
Same in the 2000s in Australia. We had a lot of Saffers in school and their stories were wild.
Hopefully her grandchildren won't have to experience what she did in the UK. At the current path they might
@@Toefoo100 Can't run forever.
this is gona produce some nasty conflict all western nations have heavy immigration from people who resent us. I dont know how or when but within a few decades possibly much sooner a lot of people are gona suffer over this
Yep, I'm one of them.
What's even more depressing about my country, Nigeria, is that at least in South Africa, with all the corruption and incompetence, they at least gave the data to be able to study and understand what's wrong.
In Nigeria we don't. Basically every form of data collection accessible to the public is ridiculously unreliable.
SA's eskom releases schedules of when they'll cut power. Nigeria's nepa doesn't even bother
Lemme give you a glimpse of the data.
Corruption
Citizens wont start a civil war for democracy
You guys can move to Kenya 🇰🇪 🚚💪😊.
@@millenniavisaspecialistskenya Kenya sounds good! Keep everyone on the continent at least!
@@millenniavisaspecialistskenyaI hear Rwanda is the big one to follow as the next rapidly growing economy world wide
I fear Nigeria is headed for a long time of stagnation n possible decline in economics at the rate it’s being managed, you said it all, basically everything is manipulated and lots of unreliable data. I fear for my country because no one says anything, instead we’re blinded by tribalism n ignorance, why corruption has always had a good hold in Nigeria, years of progress slowly eroding away in just a few years…
I’m only 23, any Nigerian can confirm the drastic changes on the cost of living in the country over the last 20 years, one of the lowest life expectancy in the world despite being one of the biggest African economies. Pray for Nigeria, we’ll need it for th coming years
I left South Africa at the age of 19 to pursue college in the United States. Given the vastly superior quality of life and job market here, I don't see myself returning to South Africa. Best decision I ever made.
I wonder what your thoughts are with the masses of people flooding in and our political climate. I’m sure it’s still better than SA but I’m afraid we’re going under.
@@Liz-in8lu Every country has its problems, there is no perfect country. However, I wouldn't say the US is going under. It is the world's strongest economy by far, with some of the highest average pay in the world for workers and it has one of the highest qualities of life in the world. As well as one of the lowest unemployment rates on Earth. The way I see it, Americans are so used to high opportunity, on point service delivery, and general prosperity that it seems like a disaster when the slightest sign of problems appear.
@@Liz-in8lu Just to put it into perspective for you how much better off Americans are. In the US, I could walk into a construction site or a warehouse, ask for a job and I'd probably get the job without too much difficulty. In South Africa, you're more likely to get into Harvard or MIT than to get the same job.
@@t.s5806 oh like corruption of our legal system. I wouldn’t say that’s not nothing to balk at! It’s a slippery slope and we are the only country with the amount of freedom we have. We will see.
@@t.s5806 cool. I’m going to NY in a few months. My dad, and I’ve traveled the world alone no problem, said don’t take the subway. Don’t belittle how I feel where my country is going. It’s perspective and if we are the powerhouse of the world and have the most freedom and that starts getting taken away - yeah I have major concerns. There is no better place to go to.
I have gotten so used to it that i didn't realise the irony that im watching this in loadshedding right now
Same here!!! Giant generator humming in the background. How tragic
I'm currently in NYC with my parents and we go back to ZA in 4 years or so,I don't want to go back now that I remember how bad the country is at the moment and I'm only 13
I'm laughing because it's the same thing for me. 😂
I'm watching this whilst camping, having charged the phone off the solar panel on the camper. I feel for all of you though... not having access to consistent power and having to rely on a generator half the time, all the time gets old
@@ricardozkhey, sometimes laughing when you're angry or frustrated is the BEST thing to do
I'm a black South African and appreciate how you have reported on this. It's neutral in opinion just abased on facts. I would dance my aging body half the day if ANC could finally be voted out, not just to see another party in place, but rather to see a democracy in action. They are no longer afraid of being caught out on a scandal, in a democratic society getting found out is supposed to cause fear as it should mean the impeding loss of your job but not with our politicians.
What you need is meritocracy. Difficult to regain once it's lost.
The solution is simple we need elect a white party and let whites do as they please white everything will be fine
@@jandejong2430 Its easy to vote them out but to be replaced by what ?
The a&c has never, nor will ever, have any sense of shame. They are oblivious to it, how else can they (openly) do such evil?
@@fransdebruijn6763 The DA.
I moved back to South-Africa in 2020 hoping that I can contribute in its development, but it's a lost cause and has lead me to the conclusion that the country must burn down as we do with grass during the winter. I will leave the country permanently next year but will always have the memories of my youth to get me through the difficult times.
I think we can agree that most South Africans have the desire or maybe the idea to leave, but I think to have emigration as an option is for the few - might even say it's a privilege that the average citizen does not have...All the best!
@@lethunkosi7601well said yster
Exactly, why they have to burn all the grasslands down is just crazy. During winter in Gauteng the air quality is so bad you can hardly breathe. And then in Cape Town it's the same in summer when there's no wind. Eish...
Everyone who can leave, left or is leaving.
South Africa is just returning to its natural state. Within 50 years the population will be back to living in grass huts like it was for thousands of years.
This administration is putting many families in difficult situations. A lot of people are financially struggling to live, put a roof over their head and put food on the table. Things are getting worse these days, if you don't find means of multiplying your money you might wake up a day to realise you didn't plan well for yourself and family…
I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don’t know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate or bitcoin and stocks..
I keep wondering how people earn money in financial markets, i tried trading on my own made a huge loss and now I'm scared of investing more.
@@face2lune Understanding your financial needs and making effective decisions is very essential. If I could advise you, you should seek the help of a financial advisor. For the record, working with one has been the best for my finances...
Mind if I ask you to recommend this particular coach you are using their service? Seems you've figured it all out.
@@face2lune I get guidance from *Susan Tori Davis* Most likely, the internet should have her basic info..
this isn't just a problem for south africa. in South America, the coalitions that gained power after the dictatorships in every country that suffered one, became corrupt. Self complacency is a great threat to democracy. There's no will to close loopholes to prevent corruption, to emprison those who benefited from it.
South Americans flip between dictatorships and socialism. African societies seem to be more fatalistic. While the Brits managed to establish a functioning admin and legal system in their colonies, the Spaniards and Portuguese only exploited their colonies and left shit and destruction.
@@Rob-iz6nmpeople are not scared to live in New York, don’t lie lol
@@Rob-iz6nm no, it's not the same situation. You've always had the false dicotomy of a 2 party system with the same financers, in the countries i've described, the one who took power by vote, started ok, but then gave up to corruption.
@@Rob-iz6nmUSA crime rate has gone down for a long time. New York is famous for its notable decrease in crime rate. You're talking from your ass
It's different uneducated people couldn't governs
I lived is a small rural town in central Alberta, Canada for a few years in the late 2000s. In Alberta's wild west, boom-&-bust, oil driven economy, it's not unusual to see large numbers of people from outside the province coming there to work; people from other parts of Canada mostly but also plenty from other countries too. Lots of money to be made in the boom cycles.
But I did find it peculiar to see such a high number of South Africans in such a small town. At one point, I counted 3 doctors, 2 lawyers, 1 dentist, 1 civil engineer and 1 geologist and those were only the ones I knew about.
I asked one of the doctors at the clinic one day (who was black, BTW) and he asked me if I'd ever heard tell of a place called Zimbabwe. I said I had and he further asked me if I knew its story. I replied that I knew the broad strokes but not the finer details. He said that Zimbabwe used to be one of the wealthiest countries in all of Africa. Horribly racist yes, but still wealthy.
He then said that South Africa was following in exactly the same footsteps as Zimbabwe did and would soon suffer the exact same fate and anyone with anything at all to offer; wealth, talent, whatever, was getting the hell out and going wherever they could. He said that he figured the country had about 20 years before it collapsed entirely. He's proving to have been pretty accurate.
Did he say WHY Zimbabwe declined? Just wondering.
I'm q south african who grew up on Zimbabwe border now in my 30s I'm familiar with both countries stories comparing SA with Zim is something we did all my life at 1st the comparison seemed alarmist although we agreed on the decline this was prior to the world Cup ultimately the country does slip but its slipping in a very different way the comparison is lazy south africa has much more to deal with Zimbabwe simply needs to fall in line with global financial regulations qnd the world will rebuild it but south africa needs to retune every single sector everything is stresses from utility to skills available to competency to skills transfer where tr labour force is available and willing south africa is also massive its one of the biggest countries both in perms of population and landmass so it will take the world's combined effort to fix her up
@@Yuenpl The evil and oppressive Mugabe dictatorship, which made incompetent decision after incompetent decision.
@@Yuenplthe quiet part out loud is that there were highly productive white people in SA, reverse racism started to take place and they were replaced in their roles or outright intimidated into leaving by people who were less productive. The whole country had a large net outflow of these productive people and everything from wealth to talent simply evaporated, leaving a power vacuum filled by corrupt and incompetent leadership and workers. If you are wondering why there is a giant gaping hole in the "but why" part of this video, it's because nobody wants to come out and say that apartheid crowd might have been cruel, but they were efficient.
@@growlith6969black people say that the apartheid goverment was more efficient all the time. They are well aware of it. Most of them lived through it. Which is also why they're so angry at the wealth inequality and created reverse racism.
Personally I'm happy that we don't have as many SJW's here, as they'd just keep pocking healing wounds and make everything worse.
I’m a South African now living in Canada, IMO this is a fairly broad overview of the most visible systemic issues plaguing my home country. The root causes however are complex and deep. Corruption, incompetence and poor stewardship has brought the country to its knees. It is heartbreaking to see so much potential being frittered away.
They’ve impacted the world
still, 23 minute videos can't usually do more than the broad overview - especially if they can't assume that the viewer knows the basic context.
There was wholesale robbery of funds by officials. Government and power officials took out multi-million dollar loans from Europe and World Bank to upgrade the power grid, then they stole all that loan money for themselves and they let the power grid collapse.. It was fraud on a massive scale. State sponsored fraud. Corruption is rife across Africa..
@@davidlightman9551 boer posting
@FeintMotion is he wrong? And if he is how? Instead of pointing out his background why not create a better argument
a friend of mine who used to live in Cape Town, moved to New Zealand and we met last year. He told me all about this and i'm now seeing it here and understanding what went wrong is literally what sam is saying. He got it correct even from the very ground up. The loadshedding for him was insane how it was difficult to keep food properly stored and other major issues.
American here. I hired two South Africans last year to work on my house. They left their families' East Cape farms due to the impending collapse of SA. Both expressed great sadness at the loss of their way of life and having to travel the world for work. Their stories support everything I read here.
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds,
I am old now. I am not going anywhere, my bones will lie in South Africa. But like almost ALL of my friends, our children and grandchildren have left for other more civilized countries. It's very sad to live on in a country that is lost, but our families are lost too.
I hope you don't get butchered in your own home❤
@@CoachmanHater Thank you! 🙏❤️ Me too. My more immediate concern is caring for my husband, who has dementia, and my rescue dogs. Veterinary care has become unaffordable, and there is much needless suffering.
@@pandoraalberts5267I don't think that was meant to be nice
@@ow_su it absolutely was meant to be nice I feel deeply for the violently oppressed minority of South Africa. Self hating retards who make videos like this should be forced to live a year in johan
@@ow_su Social media is hard for oldies. I hope you are wrong, but...live and let live. It takes extra energy to assume hatred where there may be none. 🌞
My first visit to South Africa was in Feb 2013. Capetown and points northward. I was charmed by the city and explored it without fear, solo. I returned in January 2020 and after a 10 day safari in Kruger we ended up in Durban. EVERY person I talked to from our guide to my Uber driver and Airbnb host cautioned me about safety. I had very uncomfortable 3 days. At the airport to fly home I talked to a local couple. I mentioned how unsafe I had felt compared to Cape Town 7 years before. Their comment " you would feel as unsafe in Cape Town now". A very sad thing to hear in such a lovely country.
Durban is a dump. I live on the outskirts of Durban.
The municipality here is largely the ANC.
Cape town is run by the DA (Democratic Alliance). That party has problems of its own, but they are the reason why Cape town is not a dump.
cape town did feel safe when i was there last autumn, but johannesburg was the least safe place ive ever been. zimbabwe kinda looked unsafe but wasnt in comparison
I worked in Capetown in the early to mid 70's. Law and order was good, the place was safe and I had no issues at all. So sad the country has lost all that!
To be completely honest, I visited Cape Town in February this year and felt so safe. I was walking around by myself everywhere with no issue whatsoever in different parts of the city.
@@LDNpat great to hear. I am glad you got to enjoy it
The ANC must have known the initial economic growth could not be supported if new power stations are not built.
Some blame also have to be put on the people who continue to vote ANC. Just because someone does one good thing for you, it doesn't indebt you to them for life.
Watching how the situation unfolds, I no longer think that the initial thing was actually a good one. I'd say that they managed to make rationale of previous regime vindicated.
We have that problem in a lot of our broken cities here in America
@@useodyseeorbitchute9450my guy do you genuinely think that apartheid was better
From what I hear, one of the ANC's favourite tactics is go into the most impoverished slums of the country (which are mostly as impoverished as they are because of their incompetence of course, but they brush that aside) and hand out food and t-shirts, and in return get those people registered to vote. They are just one step, using actual money instead of favours, removed from simply buying votes.
let's be honest, not many VOTE for Democrats, yet they are still in power. If corruption is an issue in S.A. it's not a stretch to assume the elections are rigged.
As a South African, I had the privilege to move abroad back in 2018 and I can say its so sad to leave the country I once loved behind, but there is no longer a point to ever go back due to the shear amount of Loadshedding and danger just commuting around the city. I feel like we need a new government who has their eye on the prize and can bring everyone together to work towards a common goal and ensure long lasting success in our nation. Thank you Sam for bringing attention to this issue, as I feel like its needs to be addressed internationally more if we have any hope of fixing South Africa’s shortcomings.
you need a government that isn't violent communists, and isn't elected by black majority who are ignorant savages
delusional
Let me guess, you didn't really pay attention to what he was saying, as one of the things that he pointed out in the video is that people like you that left this country instead of trying to help build it up, is part of the death spiral. SMH.
@@RealFreak69 Why would anyone sacrifice their wellbeing and safety when they can choose not to? You can say its cowardly and not patriotic, but when it comes to living a comfortable life, or living in fear every day, its pretty obvious which people will choose.
@@heavenbaron4108Safety is an illusion if you do not maintain it personally.
As a South African we predict this state of arrairs more than 30 years ago but the rest of the world knew
"better" and now everyone is shocked
In truth, the world really didn't...doesn't...care. A brutal realization.
Well, anyone that wasnt worshipping at the racial equality alter knew better. What surprises me is that how many simple-minded white South Africans supported the changes.
@@jwhiskey242 The only 'simple-minded' folks here are the obvious, oblivious racists.
You're completely right. The meddling do gooders can now see what their moronic ideas have done to this country. I have a much stronger word for this than naivety.. Once the ANC took over and Mandela died, it was always going to go into rapid decline with massive rates of corruption... and ignorance.
@@biltong5 If the world tried to do at say anything it would be called interference. It is up to SA to fix SA not world
This is what happens when you take affirmative action to the extreme
I’m an American who has always been intrigued with South Africa. Sounds like the ANC is incompetent and not fit to run the country. There is a lot of potential in South Africa they just need the right leadership.
They had the right leadership
Absolutely true, South Africa could be a paradise with competent leadership.
@@OmphileCedrickIt’s better to be at the bottom of a functional society then the top of a broken one
South Afri is doomed to collaspe into a non functional tribe sooner or later, as all afri countries do. Afris are far too low IQ to form and maintain nation states. This is why only developed and educated peoples, almost exclusively from Europe, managed to create functioning societies and nation states. Before white people showed them the way, afris were still banging rocks together and chucking spears. Cavemen. We uplifted them. As europeans, we spent decades trying to uplift cavemen from afri, and help them rule themselves. But afris are far too low iq for that.
It’s a weird way to look at this. Be segregated but have a beast of a country or look at it now.. what do you choose?
So my family are a little bit odd, my parents moved to South Africa (from the UK) in 1994 because they took a gamble on what the country could become. I left in 2014, my family still lives there, and bru, my parents are broke as hell in that country. They are absolutely emblematic of what has become the "poor white" in South Africa. You mentioned how the black middle class grew to 4.5 million people after Apartheid, but you forgot to mention that the country has a population of 60 million people... there's basically no middle class left and over 50% of the country live in extreme poverty, and there are no support systems to catch you if you fall. Once you are poor in that country, it is next to impossible to dig yourself out and poverty does not give a fuck what your skin colour is. The vision of SA that people saw in 2010 was a complete facade even at the time because South Africans knew the reality but wanted to believe the optimism about what it could become. Not to mention, it's not just "the rich" that have homes like "fortresses", that is almost the norm in SA unless we're talking about townships and in the cities. And you also haven't touched on the gated communities as well where people literally do live in what look like "fake pseudo-Italian towns." Quality of life also just cannot be compared to many places in Europe, where things are relatively cheap in SA, yes, but there are so many every day impracticalities that you have to deal with and they are very hard to ignore (Europe is also really big, and there many poor places as well rich places, it's not all one big country.) In some ways, you've almost been too reductionist in focussing so much on the troubles with Eskom that you've neglected the two biggest problems in SA besides infrastructure: poverty and corruption, this is the real source of crime. People are desperate enough to do anything and nobody gives much of a fuck what happens to you. Not to mention, it's heart-breaking to live in a democracy and know that your vote is meaningless.
It was a great place to grow-up because as a child you don't understand that so much is wrong with the country, you don't know anything else, but as I got older it became impossible to ignore the direction it was heading in and it wasn't positive.
He didn’t forget he is antiYt
This message could be coming from the United States. 🇺🇸
@@sookie4195 Wrong. The United States is much much more prosperous than South Africa.
Where I live in the US there is hardly any crime, mostly good infrastructure and we rarely lose power.
South Africa is similar to Venezuela and Argentina, rich or prosperous countries in their respective region, which instead of continuing to improve, have become increasingly poorer, they all share the fact that they have been blessed with abundant natural resources. It is of no use if you have a corrupt and negligent political class. South Africa, like Venezuela and Argentina, benefited from the raw material prices of the first decade of the century. Abundant resources arrived in these countries, so much so that South Africa had the luxury of hosting the World Cup, although it should never have done so with other priorities. That first decade made South Africa experience a mirage of prosperity, despite its mediocre political class. Once raw material prices fell, all long-standing problems worsened: unemployment, poverty, corruption, insecurity. etc
The last part of this post is the problem…the statement that this is a democracy but your vote doesn’t count is what is wrong with thinking a democracy is good. You might assume the US is a democracy, but you would be incorrect, we are a Constitutional Republic, and in fact the word democracy is not found in any of our founding documents. The founding fathers not only didn’t want a monarchy they also did not want a democracy where 51% of a population can completely control the other 49%. Our Constitutional Republic is supposed to provide individual rights that the Government is unable to take away. There are writings from the founders that explain the problem of a democracy is that it doesn’t take very long for it to devolve into a totalitarian state where the government controls everything. Someone’s earlier post shows this when they were surprised at how SA has changed in just 20 years! That is the perfect example of democracy to totalitarian thanks to the control of the ANC. I have been to SA five times, the first in 1969 and the most recent in 2018 and I am sad to say I might not go back again and also hope my friends and their family have a survival plan in place just in case!
One can tell a country’s well being by how many bars it has on its windows.
LIke the blue cities in America.....
@@ricksmith4736 horse 💩 from trump 🤡
Like the slums in London
With one exception my Mon Ami...I have also have one more😮 bar inside my house it's where I enjoy a few drinks in safety...😊😅😂...
@@katlegomoatshe1312 where tf in London did you go?
"Trapped in a cycle of poverty". Yeah. I've heard that before. They could have the best schools, best infrastructure, best food and a ton of money and they'd still eventually revert back to that "Trapped in a cycle of poverty" gig. This was so very predictable.
Perpetual victims. Same in the US
It always reverts, eventually, to ad hoc structures with sewage around them within which people fight for any remaining working machines.
While the collapse at surface glance only appears to be a recent thing (post 2010), digging deeper, you realize the collapse started almost immediately post 1994 in every institution. It just took some time for the collapse to become so bad that it now reaches every facet of South African life, a testament to the resilience of the once great institutions that have been pillaged non-stop since '94. The energy whitepaper from '98 is a perfect example of this, ample warning of the impeding energy crisis. Yet rather than invest and grow the sector, it actually shrank as everything that wasn't nailed down was stolen.
Simply put, the ANC is not the liberation party they sell themselves as. They've been entitled, corrupt thieves from the start who've done nothing while in power other than enrich themselves. SA was actually liberated by international pressure.
As an Indian....the story of South Africa sounds really familiar....
@@Bond047same thing in the United States.
@@sookie4195 Incorrect.
RSA GDP 1975 - 42 billion
RSA GDP 2023 -425 billion
And more infrastructure been after 1994 than before
The African government is doing more for it's people than the Apartheid gov ever did
It's ironic that SA decided to haul Israel up to the ICJ considering how much Israel has done for SA over the decades and how strong was the leftie Jewish contingent in pushing against apartheid. Looks like they were in deep delusion.
As one of the many South Africans who left in the 90’s it saddens me to see the slide. I meet many black South African professionals now in New Zealand. My partner works in recruitment for water infrastructure and pretty much all her technical placements are from South Africa. There is no way South Africa or any country, can replace these people fast enough, hence you see cholera outbreaks and deaths.
South Africans are amazing people and the country sadly is only at 10% of it’s potential.
There have been recent amazing helium, oil and gas discoveries on top of all the other wealth. It’s like God keeps giving the country a chance and the ANC drops it in the toilet.
Rich resources have little to do with a countries prosperity. This is due to the resource curse that happens to less developed nations. Corruption always takes over and a select few tries to get all the wealth which ends up lowering the overall wealth generation possible from those resources. So what would generate 100 units of wealth that spreads to the rest of the nation there only ends up being 20 units of wealth that go to a very small number of people. While the South African nation's people are rather poor the politicians in South Africa are extremely wealthy due to all the corruption.
@@AzureDrag0n1 true but there are many countries (America, Australia and Canada for example) who are rich with resources. Governments let the private sector flourish around these. Taxes gained are used for the nation building not politicial self interest at least at the scale that South Africa and others have.
Governments around the world rarely spend taxes well, but at least the bare minimum should be functional.
@@AzureDrag0n1Norway and Australia have tons of natural ressources, where is the corruption ?
In Africa EVERYONE is corrupt, corruption is not caused by ressources, but by IQ. If you're dumb enough to sacrifice your country's well being for some personal wealth, it will bite you in the ass someday.
Now check an IQ map, you can always pinpoint which country will be the most corrupt, dangerous and unequal through it.
Dont worry..China and Russia are taking over.
Its potential. No apostrophe.
People have been voting for the ANC about twenty years longer than they should have.
Absolutely, anywhere in the democratic world and a political party stays in power for 30 years, no wonder it is a mess. Very sad to see the decline.
and been allowing rich investors to control everything
@@katiebarber407You wanna chase the rich investors away? Communism never worked anywhere.
Uh. No
Singapore? @@goodfes
@@RazorsharpLT Singapore? Nice joke, look at the political crisis they having in june when dozens of MPs resigned and their ruling party is facing a succession crisis.
I'm in Melbourne Australia. Over the last few years I've noticed a heap of South Africans immigrating here.
Such great people. Its a tragedy what's happening to their country
White or black South Africans?
@@fredred5037 Does it matter?
@@andrewlarkin3074 yes. Only 1 side has caused the decline since the end of apartheid
@@fredred5037 Green South Africans 😀😀.What does it matter !
@@fredred5037 Australia currently has a program for white south africans as stated in the video. You need a genetic claim for the program
I took a week long trip to SA last year and was completely floored at the concept of load shedding and the devastation it causes. Basically you have to set up your home to be completely off the grid. Insanity.
It destroys the manufacturer's ability to operate machinery and thus employment suffers.
Black excellence
@@Joemamma-c1f Greed doesn't have a skin color, and neither does patronage.
And they charge you a premium for the electricity they cannot supply.
this is your country on wakanda brain
I'm a South African farmer currently doing my paperwork to work in the US, 9 months a year. At this point this is my best option to secure my family's needs. I completely blame the government. Everything is getting worse.
you didn't defend your nation, nations are a people, different people - different nation, btw USA is not a nation its a state run by and for jews. Great job!
Nothing to do with the fact that we a;lso have a dispropotionate part of the land and economy, about 90% -that we have not been willing to equitably share or allow others o articipate in. Nothing of that sort at all.
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@@neo4reoWhatever you share with the “others” will inevitably rot. Self hating Whites are a cancer.
Met many South Africans working custom harvest crews. Welcome to the states. You’re some of the hardest workers I’ve ever met.
Much truth in this video! As an aside, every day we (i.e. South Africans) read of tourists being shot, being mugged, being violently attacked for their dollars, euros, pounds, etc., and for their cellphones and belongings. Today a professor from New York was held at gunpoint and robbed (in Cape Town, I believe). Several German, British and Australian tourists have been attacked over the past month in separate incidents and at least three murdered. The police service is overwhelmed with violent incidents and murders: 77 murders per day, every day for the past number of years. All because the ANC government cares little for its citizens and prioritises self enrichment over governance.
Sounds like Chicago and new York run by the same types
Classic result bolshevik/marxist/communism ideology: enrich upper party apparatus under umbrella "free the slaves".
Wait for the Economic lot to get in next and another bout of looting. So sad.
weird i wonder what crime ridden cities in the US and SA have in common?@@jondiotte3572
new york is one of the safest cities in america. how about you update your stereotypes from the 1980s and worry about the european americans dying in places like kensington on the streets from horse tranquilizer?@@jondiotte3572
Worked with a gentleman from South Africa he would speak about the trauma of seeing so many dead bodies on the streets.
This is heartbreaking and completely avoidable
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My wife and her parents left South Africa and came to the U.S. in 1995. They saw the writing on the wall early. They couldn't even sell their land or valuables. They just got some plane tickets, some suitcases, whatever money and possesions they could take, and just left. My father-in-law says leaving was the best decision he ever made in his life.
My father-in-law has just left SA after living in Cape Town for over 40 years. He was fed up to the back teeth of all the crime, ANC corruption and ANC incompetence and felt he just had to get out. He’s now back in the UK and enjoying uninterrupted water and electricity supply! When he first moved to SA the rand was worth about 30p. It’s been on a slow decline ever since and now it’s worth about 5p and still depreciating. I really hope SA pulls out of it’s death spiral because it’s a beautiful country.
@@bosshogster6715 Well, let's be honest. It's been all downhill since 1994, hasn't it?
@@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 Yep what a suprise
Very glad to hear it.
sounds racist to me. that was the most prosporous and positive time in south african historyv
I left SA for the UK two years ago. I'm a scientist and I had to run my own consulting company in SA because I was white and couldn't get a job due to quotas, so when COVID hit, I packed up and left. For 5 years, I earned about 1000 dollars per month and I was regarded as doing pretty well. The previously advantaged population, who are mostly white, has held most of the wealth, education and skills since apartheid, and if those with skills can't get secure employment and a reasonable income, then they will leave. My salary and buying power literally quadrupled when I moved. My black colleagues have also been leaving because the salaries and quality of life are too poor. And the country is just too dangerous. The ANC has completely mismanaged their population and chased away anyone who has any potential to create value and wealth for others. This video doesn't touch on the murder rate, or the rate of rape, or how common home invasions are. South Africa is like a warzone trying to be something else. Literally more people are murdered in South Africa than die in active war zones. It's just sad that this video doesn't give proper context.
What you say sounds identical to what I am told by all the highly trained and educated engineers I work with that left South Africa. These guys can easily find work. Reminds me of Detroit really. The people in charge there are so incompetent they cannot keep toilet paper in the schools, even when their budgets are 3 times that of the schools I went to. Glad you made it out.
Welcome to the UK, you are very welcome here.
Not a mention about the farm murders either. Or “slow punctures” (look it up). I guess the video maker didn’t feel it was important to cover them
Mandela was a communist run by Jewish Sabbatean commie Joe Slovo
nuff said
So happy for you stay strong ✨
But I thought DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH?!
Yes, kicking out a minority group out of their jobs is actually dei?
The amount of money the ANC has stolen from South Africa is insane. It's possibly the only example of an economically prosperous country being absolutely hijacked by thieves. Edit: also including russia argentina venezuela congo and nigeria
Argentina as well.
Food for thought....International economists and financial analysts have estimated President Jacob Zuma stole & deprived the Citizens of SA from a future with opportunities MORE than Cecil John Rhodes' evil plunder of SA mineral wealth to prop up a British monarchy.
Now there's evil for you.
Cecil John Rhodes still left a positive legacy in the form of a going economy, a railroad, a stock exchange and a fantastic university in Grahamstown with a trust that funded many a poor South African to achieve a leading 1st World level university education.
Sadly, more recently, students protested, pulled down the statue & renamed the University....thereby losing the benefit of the Trust money Rhodes left to benefit the students of SA.
That's South African misplaced colonial hatred for you.
All countries have thieves in their government. It just a matter of how much they can get away with. There's plenty of theft in NA countries, just not to this scale
Don’t forget the USA!
@@kristylove418 Get Kristy Love doesnt get it.
I was a young seaman in the early 70's delivering oil products to SA... sometimes Immigration personell would come aboard in Port attempting to entice crew to into staying. We weren't foolish enough to accept the generous blanishments and could see the future problems. Many many years later I was visiting Perth... West Australia and was shocked as to how many South Africans now living there...good...hard working people who will never return...I don't blame them.
Western Australia culture fits well with people from South Africa. Similar lifestyles an values.
@@stephenbachman132barbecues 😅
@@EzraMerr yeah we got those
@@stephenbachman132thankfully indigenous australian population isnt as great as in africa. right?
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 no i think there is about 1 million off them
Lets put this in perspective. After WW2, many cities in Europe and Japan were left bombed flat, London, Berlin, Nagasaki, Hiroshima and so on, their economies likewise.
For many years afterwards there was still rationing going on but with hard work, there was a will to move on and get over it.
Within 30 years all were completely restored with thriving economies and Japan had becoming a manufacturing powerhouse.
Now compare this to South Africa, the opposite has happened, South Africa is fast approaching 30 years after Apartheid, the ANC has chewed on the fat of the cow till it is now skin and bones. When the ANC took over they had a perfectly well functioning economy. Year by year something breaks, is stolen or stops working but all is blamed on Apartheid.
Money is either wasted on ANC pet projects, ridiculous ideologies or siphoned off by their own corrupt cadres.
Just look at the trend and you can see where it is going.
They brought in AA, BEE and made it impossible for a retrenched white person to become re-employed. It is no wonder, so many have fled the country, yet the ANC wonder why they have gone. Now their tax base has shrunk, the lights are out, the crime is sky high, the water is polluted, matric pass marks lowered, cell phone towers cant keep their batteries, farms no longer function, fake qualifications scandals, trains bought from China that don't suite the existing rail gauge, embezelment, mismanagement, criminal cartels, Kleptocracy in every govt. dept etc.
This is what happens when a political party keeps running on a single good thing they did in 1994 while never giving up the vestiges of nepotism and unchecked criminal corruption.
What i find surprising is that black south africans seem to be okay with this - their hate for white people trumps their interest for living in a safe, prosperous country with a functioning government
Vote them out, as we just did in Poland
Those countries did so well because they were in crisis and filled with crisis shock ⚡.
South Africa had the exact opposite in a *windfall* from great equality due to foreign influence.
Zaminamina eh eh waka waka eh eh
Sorry but you are incorrect. South Africa did NOT have a functioning economy. How can you say that when only white people were allowed to do business and have jobs? The ANC was no better. We need a new direction and EFF provides the solutions. They are not afraid to offend the privileged class and they are not afraid to speak their minds.
It's weird that Orania is doing great while the rest of South Africa is a shit hole.....gee I wonder why.
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Because white are the best
I dont think it is fair to compare a refreshing carbonated fruit drink to a country. They are different things.
As a South African, it really saddens me to see the slow collapses of our beautiful nation 😢
It's was better before the war.
This just proves that a certain group of violent and primitive people will never be capable of making thriving and peaceful society regardless of the resources given to them. There's a reason why they've never built anything close to fully functioning civilization.
@@Zenth-cq1tb Hmm it's a mystery
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You guys kicked out the whites 🤷♂️ didn’t have a plans or the brains to keeep South Africa strong 🤷♂️
When I was working at Eskom in the seventies and eighties it was one of the best electricity suppliers in the world.
My brother-in-law ran the Komati power station back in the 60's
Of course it was supplying 12 percent of the nation, Are u suffering from apartheid hangover ?
everything before 1994 was good,
a family friend Tommy Edwards (Brother of Charles Edwards who caused the closure of SAAMBOU )was an apprentice instructor AT Eksom,THINK VANDERBIJLPARK OR Vereeniging and when first black apprentice was signed on he resigned, cant remember the year as he said then already this is going to be the downfall of Eskom,
@@Palmstreet-u7x everything was good before 1994 for less than %20 of the whole country of SA . SA never ACTUALLY had it good at all. Just the white and wealthy who migrated.
The ANC is arguably the biggest organised crime syndicate in the world... Thank you Sam for trying to bring this topic to the world stage... it brings literal tears to my eyes. I have all but lost hope. I will still vote though. Maybe it might change for my kids one day...
Except he glossed over the corruption, the massive country destroying corruption.
CCP is largest i would say, just more successful
it is complete naivety && 'white guilt' to blame a political party when this was 99% to happen regardless after 'apartheid' was removed .... every single time in history blacks then immediately genocide the 'minority' of their country
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Well its the biggest in South Africa.
"You cannot solve past injustices by creating modern day injustice.
Your only creating additional injustice. "
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Yeah, so we leave the powerful in their positions, because pulling them down will be an injustice to them?
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Not everyone is racist like you or hates people who have more than me like you.
Stop hating people because your envious.
If your against racism and people trying to control you, then STOP being racist back and stop trying to control them.
You use GOOD to fight evil, not stronger evil.
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The cholera outbreak was not limited to the outskirts of Pretoria or Hammanskraal. The entire Vaal dam was infected. I know people from Centurion to Brooklyn to Pretoria East and North who were diagnosed with actual cholera, or exhibited symptoms. Hospitals around the city also had an influx of patients. The Government, both ANC and the mayor of Tshwane (DA) denied this and only went to Hammanskraal after a week.
Every SA I've met overseas has been a delight. Most have been white, but a few were non-white (what's the preferred term? Native African? I don't know). Polite, upstanding, hardworking folk. What was most striking was how much they all bore an intense love for South Africa, but it's difficult to go back (especially those with children) because everything everywhere is now an unsafe dumpster fire.
Everywhere I hear "colonials ruined everything" "Africans/blacks should take their land back" "white people go back" etc., but actual Africans (white or not) complaints I hear are never about race. It's always about the lazy and incompetents ruining everything for everyone.
It was pretty disillusioning. In the US, high school international history pushed the fall of Apartheid as some sibling to the American Civil and the subsequent abolishment of slavery, the equalization of voting rights for all citizens. It's really not the same.
The correct term is black, there are whites and there are blacks in SA. Native African is so far from correct and no one has ever used it ever.
The word is "black'. Don't be afraid.
and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter Rooivalk of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds, yes the crime rape daylight muggings is bad
Im a brit working in China. Meet lots of South Africans here, both black and white. Whites always say the same thing, they never want to go back, its a dump, nothing works, crime is crazy etc. The blacks here are in denial about their country, trying to always mention positives and completely ignore/deny the negatives going on there.
The term is black. South africa is not as desensitized as the west.
Although we recently did pass a hate speech law. So we're on our way there, but worse because south africa is under socialism
I left South Africa in 2015.I miss it everyday. South Africa is a beautiful country, but sadly that’s all it has now.
don't ever come back plz you won't be missed
@bckstrm4607. I don't think he/she ever intends to come back. That was one of the major points of the video. smh 🙄
A part of me wants to leave because I'm white and anti white sentiment keeps growing with each new election. The EFF nearly have 20% of votes, the MK party just established itself this year and has grown a big following. Umkhonto me sizwe(MK) was the military wing of the ANC tht called for the complete destruction of whites.
A part of me wants to stay though and maybe in the future bring education to the black communities tht need it, so they aren't so easily indoctrinated by democratic radicalism.
Great news! There hasn’t been load shedd for 6 months now! Things are somehow improving
Youre the first comment to apport anything in here, cheers
@@nouhowlmao2809 Ikr, I feel like nobody is talking about this. It's been almost 8 months now I think. Super happy!
'GREAT SUCCESS"-as Borat says 😀😀😀.There is simple logic:demand and supply.Since the demand is MUCH MUCH lower due to closing of so many factories and mines and the mass immigration of so many people then at some point the demand and supply will meet and there will be no more need to pull out the plug.I suspect this was the plan all along to solve the electricity problem .ANC and their electorate are pure geniusses 🙃🙃🙃
i guess when the anc doesn't have absolute power, south africa can really prosper
credit to the anc for willing to create a coalition government at the last general election with all the major parties :)
I agree with you and I also see some improving
What is mind blowing to me is that a country like South Africa has a nominal GDP that is smaller than Denmark’s, while still having a population that is almost exactly 10 times larger.
That's because most of those people don't generate any economic production. The crime and corruption doesn't help either.
Comparing South Africa to Denmark is silly.
@@jay12120 Why?
@jay12120 in terms of population and gdp its a good comparison.
Denmark total area- 42,952 km²
SA total area- 1.22 million km²
So having more population isn't an issue, but yes the comparison is justified, they are expected to have more GDP.@@Lemonz1989
Packages mailed in and out of SA can take months literally to get delivered. I’ve experienced this numerous times.
In the FAQs of most sites that deliver stuff, they won’t send to south africa or brazil because the packages never get there
You mean if they get delivered and not stolen. It has happened to me multiple times
Wow yours get delivered? Former SA resident here
@@itsorcacraft9037lol… oh black people. They’re just like us White people, aren’t they? Just different paint jobs, that’s the only difference
@@MagnaReduxit’s odd that you think the country would be a magical utopia of it was all republican ran.
Being an Indian where people get jobs and etc on the basis of Quota, I can say Quota System is a pleague that can only cause devide and can cause the downward growth in each and every field its there.
Someone scores 99/100 and he does not get a seat in a college, and someone scores 35/100 and he gets the seat. Imagine how bad it is for the system.
We have that exact system in the USA called affirmative action. Also hire certain uneducated culture that shouldn't have those jobs based on color of skin
We have this quota system in Malaysia too.
It divides the nation and hampers the progress of the whole nation.
@@mreega4812Affirmative Action isn’t a thing anymore.
@@kencheok1769 Exactly.
Not that Malaysia is doing bad, as SA does. But you could do so much better.
@@TrollingizlifeKamala Harris
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South Africa's issues may appear complex, but they aren't. It's rampant, unconstrained and persistent CORRUPTION. The ANC have used hope to line their pockets and those of their friends
Corruption is code for socialism. People elect socialists and this is what they get.
What on earth are you on about? Corruption transcends economic models
@@roymarshall_no..... In this case nigas be stealing the resources, that's not exactly socialism
@@roymarshall_ yeah, because beautiful capitalist South Sudan is so developed 😍
@@talljake , you are correct. Democratic Socialism and Capitalism and Cronyism and Oligarchy can all share in corruption at times. I'm in the US, and things are corrupted in several areas. We have the resources to correct it. I pray that SA can overcome.
There's just something about Africa, in general. Tribalism won't go away, greed and bribery, yes, total incompetence. I finally understood cycle of poverty, visiting there several times. Just impossible, hopeless across the board. The mentality just breaks my brain.
You forgot always the victim and blaming everyone else.
Greed and corruption are not inherent to Africans, they are symptoms of the poverty and power imbalance created by colonialism.
I blame Islam, Satan worship, and Marxism.
Just like Europe over history.
@@rmac3217 yes!! That, too!!
The ANC inherited a developed country which was beyond the grasp how to have developed it themselves. It happened with so many former colonies in Africa, as soon as the Brits and French packed their bags, institutions and infrastructure was not maintained because of lack of ownership by the new leaders. The leaders have a mantra of 'Take what you can in the limited window of opportunity that is given to you'
Read: corruption.
One of the issues is also that this infrastructure wasn't really built to the benefit of the population (EG railways that only connect mines and ports instead of cities), and the necessary operational know-how was never shared with anyone. So the end result is that after the colonies dissipate, you have all this stuff in your country that people don't know what to do with, and that they couldn't maintain anyways.
You can actually see a huge difference in countries like India, where colonialism built a few things that were actually mildly useful to the population, and those countries ended up quite a bit further ahead than say Congo.
Then you add the political problems that comes from being a colony and then rapidly having to build up your own government - the kind of people who can obtain power under coloinal rule are exactly the wrong kind of people to actually run a country - and the rest is history
They wanted the controls of machine they couldn't maintain let alone build. All the people in the 80s that put pressure on SA to do away with apartheid are in part responsible for this. Their need to feel good about themselves doomed millions of people and resulted in many violent deaths. This is what the liberal world order does.
You do realize that the infrastructure of these countries was only ever designed to cater for a small minority don't you? What did you think would happen when the majority suddenly have equal access, genius?
@@Blaze6108 But none of that is the case with South Africa, which was essentially independent for decades before the ANC took power. South Africa was on the cusp of becoming a nuclear power, had its own military industrial complex, and an integrated rail network and airlines. It has all fallen apart and it is entirely and solely the fault of the ANC who destroyed the country. One only needs to visit Kenya, a country that had a less advantaged start which is a beautiful and prospering place, or Rwanda which literally had a horrific genocide 30 years ago and is now becoming the "Singapore of East Africa". Infrastructure issues from nearly a century ago don't explain the stark difference, nor give any cover to how the ANC have gutted and ruined a beautiful country and put millions of hopeful people into poverty when they were trending up in the last years of the 80s and under Mandela.
This seems very similar to the regression in Argentina but without the crippling reliance on massive external loans. Both countries were outliers of progress near the tip of underdeveloped, S. Hemisphere continents, and it would be interesting to see a comparison between the two failing states.
I have worked here for the last 42 years. Watched with great sadness how the country has been ruined. All my kids have left for the UK. My youngest left in January and will never come back thanks to these incompetents who think they can run the country. They have actually ran it into the ground.
Why are you still there?
Why is this a surprise? Why doesn't this video show the crowds singing "kill the Boer"?
because that would mean certain people are actually imperfect
Because Sam would have to admit that Africans can’t run a modern country
This video fails to mention more things, like race quotas where unqualified black workers get jobs while competent whites and Asians aren't hired.
Because that doesn't fit the agenda
I am so glad there is some coverage on this. I love South Africa, it was my home my entire life and I held out as long as I could - but finally last year I gave up and left the country. That final drive to the airport was heartbreaking, but at some point you just lose hope that it will ever improve. The threat of violence and consistent financial & social instability just consumes your whole life. SO many people are leaving the country now, but I really think that if the situation improves many of them will come back. I truly hope it does, not for me, but for so many of my family members still living there.
It's following the venezuelan patch. After all middle class and hard work people left the country, the regime consolidates power thanks to the poor and uneducated left
Look at all those rocket scientists and heart surgeons.
I say the same thing at the NASCAR rally
@@Who8mydamnoreos but nobody claims NASCAR rallies are full of Doctors & Engineers. When these people come to Europe, it is claimed exactly that it's all highly skilled engineers.