South Africa’s Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse
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References
[1] https://origins.osu.edu/article/south-africa-mandela-apartheid-ramaphosa-zuma-corruption?language_content_entity=en
[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/48614444.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3A551e31fbda4b25786b54c968593e28ba&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&origin=&initiator=&acceptTC=1
[3] https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2013-05-13-black-middle-class-doubles-in-eight-years#:~:text=The%20Unilever%20Institute%27s%20latest%20study,over%20R400%2Dbillion%20per%20annum
[4] https://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=12211
[5] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?locations=ZA
[6] https://www.news24.com/citypress/news/rising-crime-low-prosecution-rates-how-law-enforcement-in-sa-has-all-but-collapsed-20191021
[7] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1378784/transnet-total-volume-of-freight-by-type/#:~:text=Transnet%20SOC%20Ltd%20recorded%20their,some%20173%20million%20metric%20tons
[8] https://theconversation.com/suspension-of-two-south-african-judges-has-opened-up-debates-about-bad-working-conditions-and-poor-delivery-of-justice-212021
[9] https://www.eskom.co.za/distribution/customer-service/outages/municipal-loadshedding-schedules/eastern-cape/
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
@RMI’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 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
As a South African I 100% agree with this video. This country is collapsing faster and faster every year.
Edit: You forgot to talk about us breaking the sea by polluting it with literal sh*t
Edit 2: By breaking the sea I mean there was ecoli in the water. It was something like 5000 times what is acceptable.
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
I’ve been aware of that but what really is the problem
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.
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.
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
@Jasmine What’s so weird about it?
As a South African, it really saddens me to see the slow collapses of our beautiful nation 😢
It’s was better before the war.
@Zenth Hmm it’s a mystery
@Zenth 19:56
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.
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.
Met many South Africans working custom harvest crews. Welcome to the states. You’re some of the hardest workers I’ve ever met.
This, by far, has been the most responsible coverage of the crisis South Africa is facing.
agreed to long the conversation has been dominated by the 2 extremes
A. pretend that everything is fine & ANC is still good
B. [insert white supremist rhetoric]
Support this 100%
You mean one which tries to dodge the truth, aye.
@Deiniol Bythynnwr What is the truth?
South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries that I had the privilege to grow up in, the people are vibrant and the views are diverse and breathtaking, but corruption has crippled the nation, wealth disparity is one of the worst in the world and the government is riddled with nepotism and backroom dealings. I honestly don’t see it getting any better and it aches because it has the potential to be so much more
The video could have spent a few more minutes on corruption. For more than two years a commission of enquiry into “State Capture” was held. The report was damning. Criminality is clearly evident. No material prosecutions, two years later. He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
I totally agree with you. I lived in South Africa for 3 years only but it is one of my most favorite memory of all the places I’ve traveled to. It’s such a shame that the miracle didn’t last…
As long as you like crime, violence and disease then I guess. With some culture sprinkled in there
no it doesn’t
@Jimson Johnson it has much more to it than that
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.
Exactly that. We’re having elections next year and it looks like the ANC might finally be unseated.
They had the right leadership
@soakupthesunmanfor a small portion of the population.
Absolutely true, South Africa could be a paradise with competent leadership.
@CedricIt’s better to be at the bottom of a functional society then the top of a broken one
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.
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