South Africa: On the edge of darkness - BBC News
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- South Africa’s crumbling energy system is no longer able to keep the lights on, as lengthy power cuts are experienced daily across the country.
The BBC’s Andrew Harding uncovers a story of corruption and vested interest at the heart of South Africa’s power failure.
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The greatest tragedy is that this was 100% preventable & self inflicted crisis
you talking about the Apartheid?
@@wayfa13 Apartheid was not the reason why the country is in a downward spiral. Global intervention was. The west is doing their utmost to go the same direction as South Africa. Open borders and the love of everything not white will come back to haunt you in future
@@beatrixrode1082 the west? No the ANC? hahah
@@beatrixrode1082 that's why there's giant energy investments in the EU lmao. The West takes energy very seriously.
@@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 Do they? They have tried to move away from coal energy to GREEN ENERGY. It failed spectacular and they are back on coal energy.
Great to see this getting more global coverage, the country is crippled by corruption.
don't worry.. Putin will solve this problem easily.
@@lifeisneverthesame910 Agree. Putin just needs to put in and then he will take out quickly... take out the blood after the ANC took the soul
Unfortunately, South Africa does now have a corruption problem. Such a shame. I really had thought that they were Africa's greatest hope after the end of apartheid.
But there's still democracy in Sputh Africa. If they managed to overthrow apartheid, they can deal with this mess.
The bigger problem than corruption is that South Africa is now in a position where it can easily be manipulated by China and Russia.
@@AndrewMcFarlane_1 where are all the SA trolls that were saying SA can do what it wants in regards to sending weapons and ammo to Russia…..bahahaha probs no power to turn the computer on
@@AndrewMcFarlane_1 Putin is the God of South African.
AC = Alternating Current. DC = Direct Current. ANC = Absolutely No Current.
Asinine Nincompoop Corruption
30 years ago South Africa was safe and prosperous. What happened to make it so bad?
Years of mismanagement neglect corruption lack of investment. The ANC is now unfortunately a mafia and they turned SA into a mafia state
The ANC is the largest criminal organisation on the continent! If they had to root out corruption it would mean putting 80% plus of their senior leadership in prison. Therefore they will never do it. Our country has been robbed blind!
robbed blind literally - because you can't see in the dark.
South Africans elected them. Everybody lionizes Nelson Mandela but the ANC has always been a murderous & corrupt terrorist occupation. Western leaders like Brian Mulroney, former prime minister of Canada, were instrumental in sanctioning the apartheid regime out of existence and welcoming the ANC to power, so they bear some responsibility for the failed state that South Africa is becoming. Only Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, founder of Inkatha Freedom Party, had the wisdom to say 30 years ago that if the ANC promotes "Kill the Boer!" as a main idea during the freedom struggle, what will happen to the nation when that freedom is won? 3 decades later, we have the answer: unchained violence and corruption.
Correct, it’s a Criminal Cartel, this is why now they are leaning towards Putin and Co, these people will do anything to stay in power, stealing as much as they can from the poor, if you want change in South Africa, the only way is to get rid of the ANC.
It's not your country, if it is then you are to blame
Not your country too big man..
Ironic that South Africa was the first country in the southern hemisphere to have electric street lights
I remember back then SA used to be developed country…it was a head of many countries including Middle East…I kw it had many issues but, it’s still sad hw things it turned out
Kimberley was the first town in South Africa to have electric street lights and quite possibly the first in the southern hemisphere. Swan lamps were used.
Yes, but I feel there was a significant shift in the country when a certain something happened and the powers that made that happened left...
interesting
@@yihuda7459 South Aa is still ahead of all of the Muhammadan countries and will always be.
This was once the “richest” country in Africa. What a joke.
Still is
I was before 1994
Another sad South African here... grieving for our country. My parents immigrated when I was a teenager in the eighties... a long time before things got really bad. But they foresaw what might happen. Immigrating was a hard and painful choice, but I am glad we went through that now. My heart still breaks from my family at home and also for the country I love.
Immigrated in the 80's? You mean moved TO South Africa?
Or do you actually mean EMIGRATED, as in left SA to move to another country?
Because IMMIGRATED and EMIGRATED are polar opposites.
Spelling is crucial to conveying meaning.
@@rheinhartsilvento2576 "Immigrated in the 80's? You mean moved TO South Africa?" "Or do you actually mean EMIGRATED, as in left SA to move to another country?"
"My parents IMMIGRATED when I was a teenager in the eighties..."
Understanding basic English is crucial before you make a fool of yourself with a stupid comment on something you failed to comprehend in the first place.
Frenchman here, in the 80" i was dining with my best friend in Paris a "liberal almost socialist " wealthy MD . I told him SA will soon become "The Planet of The Apes" when the white rule is over , nasty joke of course, but my friend agreed with me (because liberals are inherently hypocrits ) , the proof is in the pudding , i was damn right !
@@rheinhartsilvento2576 mmoved to SA, OBVIOUSLY. Reading skills are important to high comrrhension levels my tomo
@@user-pd6bd7ir4z Yes, reading skills are important, which you lack. If you read his comment carefully, you'll figure out he's actually talking about emigrating. He misused the word immigrating.
There are dozens of ex South African power workers that have moved to Western Australia to work for the major electrical utilities, they often talk about how the SA system was "the best in the world" but then decades of corruption and mismanagement and lack of investment have basically destroyed the whole system.
White flight has Destroyed the Economic System of S.A.
What happens when the Gold and Diamonds are finally Depleted? South Africa will be in the same situation as most other Sub Saharan Countries there in Africa.
I know SA power workers that now live in the UK
@John Stirling __ I worked in the Chemistry Engineering Section in the 1990's and left just before 2000 when Affirmative Action started to be implemented and the exodus started. At Global chemistry symposiums back then, Eskom held its own with Standards equal to USA and Germany. Fantastic technical skilled workforce across all departments. And we kept the lights on with a workforce of 20,000; (in 2018 the workforce peak almost at 50,000)
Yeah. I was talking to one who said a big problem is now people steeling metal from the high voltage power lines. His job was pretty much inspecting them constantly to replace the stolen pieces so they didn't collapse.
@@orlandosadie6283 Well, that was bogus because only one third of the country was with electricity. Here's a fact for you, at the height of apartheid in 1987/88 I was in Swaziland as part of our primary school excursion, I had no idea WHAT APARTHEID MEANT THEN but that trip opened my eyes because for the first time I saw a mud house with electricity something I had come to believe is not real. So all the glory to ESKOM was a lie
South Africa's present rot in governance and public service delivery is just a perfect representation of most of African countries whose political leaders have turned our economies into their personal wealth swindling venture.
So true all African leaders are authoritarian and that is the main reason China and Russia thrive economically and politically in Africa. But when it comes to looking for a better life Africans and Asians legally or illegally pay people smugglers to head West not Russia or China. Please migrate there and stop the migrant boats in the Mediterranean!, amazing also that no Russian or Chinese NGOs rescue Asians and Africans.
Your culture and mentality is the ptoblem
@@karlscher5170everything in this world is about race. Look how much SA changed after white government. Even with the endless sanctions SA did well. Now SA is a mess. Think now..tictoc tictoc...
that happens when you put black people as leaders :)
you mean black people.... left leaning bleck people
This is certainly one example of great journalism. Props to Mr. Harding for asking these people these tough questions.
We left SA for Canada permanently in early April this year and are dumbstruck by how rapidly the situation has worsened in the short time since we left. Every aspect of SA life and the economy is falling into ruin with the pace picking up by the day. Our advice to anyone back home with even the most modest of means is to get out as soon as possible. We'd all like to believe that the collapse can be arrested and the country's fortunes turned around but the bitter reality is that there is zero political will and little remaining competence to do that. What frightened us the most and decided us to leave was the realization that broader society is failing and has started to turn on itself like a pack of starving animals. We're not happy to have had to leave SA but there is no going back for us.
Sorry, but that is the terrible result of Africanisation.
world wide phenomena post Covid, poorest countries feel the most pain...
Out of the frying pan.........into the fire
@@louiswilliamterminator2887 I don’t think Canada is the fire lol, sensationalist headlines doesn’t translate to a failed state
@@franceskronenwett3539 maybe they will halt the decay and create Wakanda
I think it will just fall apart to be honest, always have
Hollywood can’t save them
Corruption in our country 😢 2024 we need to vote out this government of ANC.
Those that suffer the most insist on voting for it 😢
@@tsheposeeletso6475 very true brother but enough is enough we tired of this nonsense.
I agree. Having the same ruling party for almost 30 years is madness 😭
@@tsheposeeletso6475 this is so true and painful
You all vote them out please. Fight to stop this evil. SA is so beautiful and deserves better!
I'm from zambia and i prayed that things will get better for SA 🇿🇲❤️🇿🇦🙏🏾
Well this is what happens when ideology, and not meritocracy, becomes policy.
100%
Naw the ANC doesn't give a shit about ideology - only personal enrichment
South Africa is suffering from the exact same problems in all other African countries... Corruption, nepotism and tribalism govern politics and public affairs... Is not going to end up well...! You can put a suit on an ignorant person and expect it to perform well, and the problem in SA is no doubt their corrupted government and politicians...!
And yet the west was so desperate for "majority rule", they sanctioned the previous government to death almost. Yes the uk and usa specifically. Hope you all happy with the results. Look at zimbabwe too
Sounds like the Tory Party
Right. Corruption stifles everything, growth, innovation, and progress.
@@5801160052086 what white boy not happy that he can't treat blacks as second class citizens
@@5801160052086 they sanctioned the white racist government in the late 80s early 90s ! those same racist governments would still be in power if it wasnt for the west buddy ! now fuck off and grow the fuck up !
Going the way of Zimbabwe, just taking a bit longer because they started in a better position. The difference is Zimbabwe was still a largely agrarian society so when everything broke down a lot of people were still able to feed themselves. South Africa is far more urbanised, when everything breaks down there you will see unmitigated chaos and devastation.
A Civil War cannot be ruled Out
🙆
Zimbabwe in the maki g..with bigger consequence .
I (south African) remember speaking to a Zimbabwean in the UK over twenty years ago. He said South Africa would be worse than Zimbabwe because, as you say it is far more advanced and the ANC wont be able to maintain the infrastructure. I thought he was talking rubbish but it looks like he was right. South Africans live in suburbs and townships with no small holding to retire to in order to grow your food.
Military cartels are ruining Zim.
Mining etc
@@truezladye1893 agreed, albeit Zim is already ruined unfortunately (i.e. it is a failed state). Doesn't mean it can't improve in future, but as you said it is being kept down by wanton criminality and corruption.
Moved out of South Africa when I was 16(2006), you can give money to assist but it will only go in to the pockets of the corrupt government and the corrupt will stay in power because they out number the other parties. Was a 3rd world country with first world facilities and infrastructure, it’s truly sad where it’s going for all the experiences I had and places I use to visit as a child will just be a memory and never visit again. I love South Africa for what it once was but not for what it become today.
So in a way South Africa is just going to its natural equilibrium. Those in power have third world mentality so South Africa is expected to manifest as a third world country as well. The process in on-going now.
Funny how no one is talking about the elephant in the room
The first thing that came to my mind.
Not much you can do when so many people in your country have absolutely no concept of right and wrong...
The less evolved lack a moral compass.
Blacks
@@RealtalkManc Zambia Kenya and Angola all have lower homicide rates than Ukraine and Russia. It just doesn't make sense
@@jacksevert3099 lol you can’t measure war against it - before the war that wasn’t the case !
@@RealtalkManc the stats were for 2020; well before the War. Kenya, Niger, Mozambique, Rwanda, Malawi have less homicides than all white Argentina, Ukraine, Russia, Estonia.... why is only SA so bad?
It's not sabotage. Its treason and should be treated as such.
It's african culture
treason, sabotage, greed, incompetence and and and
All of the above
South Africa inherited a fully functioning network of coal fired power stations, and owns massive coal deposits. In the 3 decades since Nelson Mandela, where SA has had an elected government, Eskom, the power station operator has been systematically plundered by criminals right up to government level. Of course we feel great sympathy for all the victims of the rolling blackouts, but unless the corruption is met head on at the top, there is little chance of future foreign investment. I see little chance of this happening, partly because no one criticizes SA because it is now free from 'white rule'.
So were you better off under white rule?
They're not able to afford to keep the lights on but yet... they're able to be part of BRICKS?
What a joke!
I'm a 15 year old South African and while I may not know much (or I guess anything really) about politics, I have noticed that the country seems to be spiraling downwards in the last few years and I am trying to educate myself on it because while me may not yet be on the level of rock-bottom other countries have hit, it seems to me we are swiftly getting there. I have lived here my whole life, but things were never as bad as they have gotten in the last 2 years. Daily powercuts for up to 12hrs, constant water-outages, extreme rising costs of living, increased crime, neglection of roads, education etc. It's so sad because South Africa is such a beautiful country in terms of landscape, wildlife, culture, language and just the overall vibe. On top of that, it seems that some people ironically see the past as our only future (on the one hand you have people saying that the only way to fix the problem is to reinstall Apartheid, on the other you have people saying that the white-minorities are the root cause and should therefore leave) which I believe is causing great divide between the people and that's one of the reasons (along with an incapable government ofc) we struggle to move forward in this country. This is just my impression of the unfolding situation, but thanks to the BBC for shedding a light on this issue.
Edit: Thank you to everyone's kind words in the comment section! I don't have time to reply to all the comments, but I wish the best for you, wherever you are in the world!
For a 15 year old you are very wise for your age. I hope things get better for you and your country. Since the pandemic many countries are struggling, here in the uk things are getting bad day by day. Cost of living is through the roof and many people can’t afford food.
I feel this has been purposefully done to the world to bring the people to its knees because the few elite people at the top know there are more of us than them. If we all stopped fighting amongst ourselves and started fighting those at the top causing all the misery then I believe thing will get better. God bless you ❤
Your description for the cause of a lack of resolution sounds convincing. I wonder if it is this kind of stagnation that politicians use to profit
Vulnerable people fall prey to crime and feel "If you can't beat em, join em." You have so many consequential decisions coming at you in the next few years. Hopefully, you find a way out from under that ceiling of corruption and prosper despite (or far away from) it.
@@gimmemore9709 You are a Russian troll, not a British.
Very astute observations and well articulated. You show great promise to be writing and thinking the way you are at 15. I wish you all the best, and may you prosper and strive to succeed in a beautiful country which faces many challenges.
Mafia state. No other way to put it! Thanks for covering this and getting it global!
The ANC just said it just the west propaganda
@@khanhnguyen-tt3ff I am a South African and the ANC is a bunch of corrupt, lying rubbishes. Its even worse than this video shows
I was born and lived in SA for three decades. I left three years ago. Anyone who's lived there can attest to the absolute rampant corruption and incompetence. It's no exaggeration to say that EVERY SINGLE sector has incredible amounts of corruption and incompetence.
We saw the signs 20 years ago, nothing changed. We saw worse signs 10 years ago, and nothing changed. That's when I decided that I absolutely refuse to waste my life trying and waiting for improvement, and definitely not bringing children into in a crumbling, crime ridden society.
For decades we hoped that things would get better, almost to the point of ridiculous wishful thinking and ignorance about the root of the problem. But my advice to anyone who is capable, is to leave while you can. Stop thinking things are bound to get better. Are you prepared to waste another 30 years of your life hoping and waiting? Or bring your kids into a world that's set up to fail them? Not me.
And for those who can't leave, I truly empathise. I wish I could say things will get better, but by the time that MIGHT happen you'll probably be too old to enjoy it, or dead.
And for anyone who has the ability of immigrating, DO IT! It's the best decision I have ever made. If not for you, then at least for your children.
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White flight. When they take over, there is no room for civilised people.
Which country did you immigrate to?
It was bad a decade ago, but at least the outages were predictable and shorter. I hoped it would get better. Almost everyone I know left. I opted not to pursue employment there. There are so many great things about SA, but it seems the corruption can't be overcome, at least in my lifetime.
And what's the root of the problem?
One of the guys I watch on utube grew up in South Africa and he said the best thing he ever did was leave South Africa. He almost got killed two different times due to criminals trying to rob and kill him and his family. It’s really sad that many people can’t afford to relocate to another country with their entire families😰😭🙏🏼 I can’t imagine living in fear all the time. As much as people talk about American and our gun problems, I’d take that any day over living in a place like this. The guy made a video about exactly what they talking about months ago because his parents told him how bad it was getting.
It’s sad that SA once had the best power grid in the world.
My mom and family back in South Africa are all getting solar installed at their houses because they cannot cope with the government being so inept. My mom mostly relies on her solar power now since loadshedding is so often. Africas worst enemy is themselves
They are queer thats why they act queer. The only thing that unites them is racism against white people.
It's mum, not 'mom', unless you're American. Please use and preserve our English language and avoid adopting unnecessary Americanisms. xx
@Pussy Postlethwait's Aeronautical Antics or eff yourself. You're not the language police.
@@pussypostlethwaitsaeronaut8503 I'm South African, we say mom not mum. Even though I'm of British descent I will not change the way I speak for anyone.
How much did that cost ?
What a tragedy. I just visited South Africa for the first time a couple of months ago and had a faint idea about load shedding and the power outages daily. Traveling through the country it was ridiculous to hear locals talk so openly about the corruption and how the government and local officials have completely failed them. People were bothered by it but would say "we deal with it" or "its always been like this". I visited in the summertime but they were already bracing for the winter and would tell me that it was only going to get worse. South Africa is such a beautiful country and everyone I met was so pleasant and willing to help that I felt awful driving around and seeing the complete divide between the have and have nots. We can only hope in time that the people of South Africa get something that they deserve.
They have to fight for their rights. Nothing of worth is given. If they accept those corruption as it was always been, then they have no hope to have a fair and just society. In the West, we are still have to fight everyday in your work and in our voting choices.
These people elected their leaders. Change doesn't change itself.
They do have the leaders they "deserve"- they elected them. Everybody lionizes Nelson Mandela but the ANC has always been a murderous & corrupt terrorist occupation. Western leaders like Brian Mulroney, former prime minister of Canada, were instrumental in sanctioning the apartheid regime out of existence and welcoming the ANC to power, so they bear some responsibility for the failed state that South Africa is becoming. Only Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, founder of Inkatha Freedom Party, had the wisdom to say 30 years ago that if the ANC promotes "Kill the Boer!" as a main idea during the freedom struggle, what will happen to the nation when that freedom is won? 3 decades later, we have the answer: unchained violence and corruption.
“It’s always been like this”
Not true
It’s been like this when the communists took over
@jan viljoen you would be right if they don't demand change. Results will only come after actions.
Imagine a country with many opportunities crumbling within corruption and greed
And this dear children is what happens when you scare away the people who keep the lights on.
The decline of South Africa is tragic to witness. My sympathy to the people there.
Entirely self-inflicted
@@esoterex If by "self" you mean the corrupt ruling party then you're correct, but somehow I don't think that's what you meant. The ANC is not South Africa.
But ANC is in power because they were voted in by the South African voters, right? So they represent the will of the majority in South Africa. Unless you're saying that they cheated in the elections.
@@esoterex By whom. The international globalists that hate it when things are going well. Europe and America are on the same path. Give it another 10 years and we in South Africa will say HOW COULD THEY HAVE BEEN SO RIDICULOUS IN GIVING THEIR COUNTRIES AWAY
i feel for all in South Africa, but to those in Western countries, take a look what nett zero looks like
ANC believes in keeping the people uneducated, uninformed, poor and sick. Then they can control because they wilĺ control the weak. Then the weaker the nation is the more our government can steal. Ubuntu died a long time ago
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They can also keep them dependent with social welfare grants on which 30 % of the population depends.
@@jonye7511 I think its been going up, we at 47% already.
@@bojackhorsemanners Highly likely as I am working with 2018 stats.
It is such a shame that a corrupt government, misappropriate all funds can cause a first world country to become a third world country. My heart breaks for my country and it's people.
We were always 3d world but true words non the less
@@jonomuller1965 Not during apartheid when we had a good leader and government
@@AugustusTheDuck It wasn't first world and never was. You cannot call "first world" a country where the average GDP per capita is not equal or similar to that of truly developed countries like Japan and where the majority of its inhabitants have a third world standard of living.
@@AugustusTheDuck Apartheid only benefited some people and actively discriminated against the majority. Fck off with that "We should go back to aparheid bs".
blame it on communist ANC type government and the moronic green energy programs which will not work!!! Communism is a failed system and despicably using race as a weapon.
South Africa before 1992 THRIVING and Beautiful.... I wonder what happened.... 💩
Make South Africa Great again!
Kudos to the BBC for making this great investigative documentary and openly showing what a so-called "liberation movement" is causing in this once beautiful country. It makes one want to weep.
Lol, omg I see you, you wanted apartheid to continue. Always find it funny when white people refer to it as "our county"
True, slowly becoming the new venezuela....
Liberation before education! Viva Mandela!
@@humbertomonteiro6742 Whats wrong with Venezuela---other than white corporate capital flight. Imagine South Africa has ALL that coal to burn , and improve the lives of the Africans. Coal mines are still operating in the US, and yet some idiots think that SA should abandon coal, and embrace a technology that only they can finance, install and run for a premium cost...
My good lord, how stupid do this people think we are---somebody please call China!
This is what happens when you have people with no morals or education running a country, let's be honest who expected anything different?
One of the most depressing documentaries I have seen. There is no hope for South Africa because the rot goes all the way to the very top.
There are many corrupt dictators.
There is no hope because the rot foes all the way DOWN.
And who mismanaged all the infrastructure? Hmm
We have economic problems and corruption problems here in Brazil, but fortunately we haven't had a major energy crisis since 2001. We have invested in the expansion of reservoirs, solar and wind energy. We use almost no coal with the exception of a few mines in the southern region.
We basically almost never get a power cut in England...and if we do the power companies have to pay the consumers compensation for the inconvenience.
Where I live in the UK I don't think I've had a power cut in like 7 years.
I'm 39 and live in the Netherlands and never ever had a power cut.
In U.K. as far as I know it’s only ever been off due to a thundery storm, winds blowing trees onto power lines, maintenance etc
30 years ago South Africa had the #1 electrical supply in the World - not only rock solid but also the cheapest. The thing is - power plants only last 50 years - so the ANC 'stole' the money for replacement plants for cadre deployment - local lingo for redirecting political lackeys into positions where they can enrich themselves.
Here in South Africa it’s every day 😢4-8hrs a day. Some areas go without electricity for days due to the system breaking down as a result of the constant on and off. Some go for a week. Whilst other areas don’t have clean, running water. It’s an absolute mess!!!
"The poorest hit hardest" but they are the ones that vote for the ANC
Literally every time, like clockwork.
The fear apartheid returning is the ANC's hold on the poor.
The power of ANC and their ilk.
Must be horrific if you’re actually acknowledging the problem
I visited SA (KZN) in Feb 23 after a gap of 4 years. It was noticeable that the roads were in much worse a condition. When I asked why that was it was explained that heavy coal lorries were damaging the roads and, of course, there was local corruption that prevented the roads from being repaired. Shame, a beautiful country with so much potential.
At these levels, corruption is treason.
By coincidence I happened to spend a month in SA at the same time as you. It was my first visit there after having extensively travelled many corners of Africa from North to South and West to East within the last 40 years. As you might imagine I love this part of the world. So after all I wasn't too much disappointed of SA, because my impression was that it is still the most developed country of Sub-Saharan Africa (with the exception of Namibia). But it is currently on a long way down to the average level of the continent. That's sad, but predictable, because it rhymes.
Wow, it seems that South Africa is in an unstoppable downward spiral.
It's worth noting, to those who don't know, that South Africa actually possessed two nuclear power plants when democracy arrived in 1994. If there's a silver lining to this story, it's this: thank god these stations weren't treated with the same criminal negligence as all the coal-powered stations, because we'd be in Chernobyl territory if they were.
The sad thing is that with a non-corrupt leadership, this problem could be solved so easily. When a militia comes face to face with true Western military, it is very humbling. Unfortunately all the right people seem to be getting paid and brushing this under the rug
@@Jjboxing Yes, because military interventions has always lead to good outcomes...
It worked so well in vietnam and the middle east since they are all pro western deomcracies now right. Its idiots who see the military as the only solution that creates all the worlds problems. Just look at russia as a example.
Yes indeed. But the other option which most Africans vote for is EFF which will only make it much worse.
The only hope is to bring the white people back to power without apartheid.
@@davesmith826 Not sure which you are talking about, but all the reactors we had in 1994 are still around: the two power units at Koeberg (which are currently offline for refuelling and permit extension, but have otherwise been very reliable with a capacity factor of around 80% over their service life), and SAFARI-1 which is a small research reactor also used for production of medical isotopes, also still operating.
The air quality there is way better than many other places ironically
My country kenya aint perfect at all but i cant remember the last time we had serous power outages ..infact blackouts are rare , maybe during heavy rainy seasons and thunderstorms.
It's the African way, corruption is part of the culture. As soon as anyone gets into any position of power, be it a local policeman or a senior politician, they take it as a natural right that "it's their turn to eat".
Just look at the countries with black leaders, EXTREME CORRUPTION AND ROBBING THIER PEOPLE
There is no hope, another failed state - thanks to the ANC. Many have left, many will leave.
Spot on, thanks comunism....
The white south africans are welcome in the UK I know many.
They must leave no body is stopping them🙂.
@@beroniciaayslie419 they will, and are leaving. Along with investors. Let's see what happens when there's nobody left to pay the taxes that the govt. plunders. They will start selling off bits of the state to the eager Chinese. There is no end in sight to the suffering of poor South Africans.
@beronicia ayslie have already left, thank you for your kind words 😂😂😂😅😅😅
Like SerpentZA once said “I bloody told you so!”
I just watched 2 of his videos!! He has 2 great, eye opening videos on South Africa. One is long, but soooo worth it! ❤❤❤
I am from South Africa. We are trying to push for green and sustainable/ solar energy. The government doesn't want us to. But the same people in Alexandria are the same people who keep voting for the ANC.
You don't need green energy. You need qualified boiler maintenance people who actually know how to weld boiler tubes.
I had so much hope for a "new South Africa" during the late 80's. I really never thought that the beautiful country was going the way as shown in this programme.
The indigenous peoples’ cultures lack the kind of ethics needed for business and government to succeed.
This is what the apartheid government was protecting us from.
Oh please 😂 really? You were ignorant! You just had to look at the rest of Africa to know what the future would hold.
@@charm-eo3kx He's talking about South Africa in the 80s. You had to be there.
Well many of us knew
I had absolutely no doubt that this was going to happen, they are so corrupt and stupid that they cannot just take a little and keep things going. They steal everything so there is nothing left.
The ANC will eventually blame apartheid for wat is happening.
They already do
Its the end time of the world and people go gay like Sodem and Gomora.Thats why they act queer in that culture.Racism against whites is the only thing that keeps them going, and they are helped in that racism by leftwing homosexuall whites, who have a phobia of straight white normal people.
Homosexuall Aids did alot of damage to Africa, Which people tried to cover up.
Makes me thankful that the problems we face in our country are not nearly so bad
They will be
Yet
Imagine needing a barbed wire around your house ffs
Thank you for doing this report. South Africa is yet another country crippled by corruption. 😔
In other words, white men need to be running things, otherwise this hell is what you get.
..but they'll never mention that in this programme, they just TALK about the problem but won't offer any solution if that solution goes against the politically correct doctrine of our Woke times.
Is there more corruption now than during the Apartheid?
And incompetence.
@@clausbader9537 so sad isn't it. What a mess. It feels hopeless that things will change for a significant difference. Here in Canada we are seeing an increase in South African immigrants. For example, doctors come, they work in the Northern communities for about 3-5 yrs. That gets them established. Then they move to Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary...any larger city with conveniences and higher paying jobs and they are then free to live an amazing life. Norther communities suffer due to the lack of people wanting to stay and larger cities get more and more over populated. What a world we live in on this planet eh! Everyone is entitled here to make a good life for their families. A ying and a yang situation. Where is this all headed?? Thank you for your comment, 🙏 ☺🇨🇦
Black people
I'm leaving for Perth Australia in August 😭 I can't do this anymore, bro I lost papa during C_19 my uncle went bankrupt and he was the last hope. I'm social isolated half of my friends did the unthinkable, I'm just done
Good for you
Keep up budd God bless you
Can you describe what the "unthinkable" behavior which your former friends exhibited during the pandemic?
Why Australia though? Europe is probably more stable.
@@Tobi-ln9xr : hahahaha no mate 😂Australia is far more stable in every metric. “Probably” is a stupid assumption.
Same situation in Bangladesh Due to massive corruption by the present an illegal ruling party. No democracy in Bangladesh, ruling party's leaders are laundering money in USA, Canada, UK, Singapore, UAE, Malaysia. Now, government can't produce electricity because of money shortages. Please make a documentary on Bangladesh particularly on corruption, money laundering and electricity problems.
That's where positive discrimination gets you
Everyone is so shocked that we are now at this point. It was inevitable from the start. And it all will end catastrophically. Very soon.
Hopefully not soon but this is the Climate Crisis beginning on a massive stage.
The average worker can not survive this. Small businesses can't endure these power cuts.
South Africa seems determined to follow Zimbabwe's example on how to become a failed state.
I have been in Johannesburg for two weeks and experienced 2 power outages. I see many new buildings being built in what seems to be a growing city.
Wow, who would have thought the ANC would not be capable of running a country...
Exactly. The whole western world thought so.
What could go wrong?
it went well while Nelson Mandela was in power ?!
@@CyberspacedLoner the corruption started with Mandela
@@CyberspacedLoner Not even close. The rot started there. Not because of Mandela but because of the ANC.
I will never forget the day we heard the news bulletin about a very sick Mandela stuck for hours on the high way in Midrand in a broken down ambulance. Hearing this even back then I new this country is going no where good.
And the military plane that crashed in Drakensberg mountains on its way to Mthatha to deliver mail.
@@CyberspacedLoner not really, he was an unrepentant terrorist, not the angel he's pertrayed as
"If we dont steal it, someone else will "
ANC proverb
When they switched to hiring based on racial equity/diversity instead of merit, things quickly started spiraling downward.
Dang.
I almost skipped this cause I thought the reason would be boring, but didn't expect it to be so dark and hopeless.
It's very sad what is happening to us here in South Africa everything is declining the government officials are looting with no remorse, youth are unemployed, it is unbelievable that few years ago we were number 1 gold producing country in the entire planet but nothing to show for it.
The ANC kleptocracy lays down with dogs, (war criminal Putin) it gets up with fleas.
Yet the ANC still gets majority votes, essentially SA has killed itself.
That's sad what happened to SA and is still happening.
The Gold ran out long before the ANC lost their way. What the ANC needed to do was to avoid demonizing white people - both local and foreign - and work with them instead - but it was easy politics to play the blame game - so the best white wealth creators left and the foreign investors (mostly white) silently redirected their money elsewhere.
havent seen anything yet. HATERS
When the ANC came to power 30 years ago South Africa was the richest country in Africa. Today it's one of the poorest. That's what happens when you let criminals run the country.
Its not one of the poorest tho is it, its literally top 3 still
We’re on our way to being “just another African state”.
No, it's nowhere near the poorest, still one of the largest economies in Africa in spite of the ANC's best efforts.
It's sad. Apartheid had to go but the alternative wasn't much better.
The brother was such a blessing to me. Wow🙏
I really hope there is accountability in the end.
One of my best friends is in Cape Town, which is not even in as dire a situation as Johannesburg and other cities. She's been so overwhelmed and exasperated by the load shedding for the past several years. Eskom is one of the most corrupt and incompetent organisations I've ever heard of anywhere in the world. And the ANC is a useless entity that should have been overthrown a long time ago. They are not a representation of Mandela's legacy. They are a disgrace to all of South Africa. My friend wants out of the country. She's lived and worked abroad before, and I'm praying that she will be able to relocate permanently out of South Africa.
Theyre in lockstep with mandela. Just like mother theresa, he had a great image for some reason, that he didnt deserve. He was a corrupt communist leader of a racial party. The nathan bedford forrest of south africa, with literally the same story arc as a certain austrian circa 1940. The picture in your head of the man is a falsification of heavy propaganda, what the anc does today is most certainly a continuation of this shitty legacy. African nationalists have this tendency to starve their own people to stick it to whitey, and its not new. They dont really do measured, responsible transition to majority rule. Just like mugabe, all they had to do was obtain power and oversee a gradual change in attitude, but they couldnt manage it, and everyday people starve for it. Hes a part of the storied tradition of radicals that were imprisoned for good reason and shouldnt have been let out. 10 million people died because germany released lenin, cut off its nose to spite its face. Without lenin, there wouldnt be stalin, the blame and responsibility is retroactive when one implements a system as a leader, that relies on the morality of the leader to protect the people rather than a constitution. Everything is squarely on mandelas shoulders, thanks for proving there is far worse in this world than apartheid, sadly. The choice was racists who know how to run a country, and racists who struggle to tie their shoes without being bribed, and have 0 grasp of the realities of agriculture and energy production. Its pretty evident the wrong choice was made. Its come full circle, and nobody in the western leftist sphere even talks about south africa anymore, because the situation there and rhodesia could have been prevented by the western left staying out of issues they dont have the faculties to understand. Nobody can honestly claim that living there in 2023 is any better than 1980, by all evidence its way worse. Economists and sober political scientists said exactly what would happen to SA and Rhodesia, and were silenced, to prop up terrorists of the "moral ethnicity". In the end, natural political power rests with the ones who can provide food and energy, and interfering with that process as an outsider always causes issues. No matter the social issues, if a government is successfully managing a very difficult situation, dont interfere. The rape, murder and poverty happening right now could have been prevented, easily, by the simple recognition of uncomfortable realities. In conclusion, fck every stupid, moralistic, installed dictator.
100%
😃Mandelas legacy? A corrupt to the bone monster. A Leftist working constantly to undermine SA
Murder, lies, whatever it took. His family became very wealthy because of it. The current SA is his legacy.
100% predictable ANC thieves would wreck SA
2:21 I agree that the term "loadshedding" sounds almost nice lol. Like you have a heavy load that you need to shed off. Call it what it is -- power cuts, blackouts, power outages, shortage etc. I empathize with South Africans 🇿🇦 from Kenya 🇰🇪. I think leaders need to deeply understand what level of effort is required to solve fundamental problems
That's why they use it. It changes it from 'poor consumer' to 'poor producer'.
A nation where 30% is a passing grade and where 40% in at least three subjects means you’re ready for college.
The West should not give SA a cent. Russia can bail them out.
Damn straight…I support this 💯
I'm glad you've realised that we have been corrupted by the Western Warmongers and Cabals propaganda. Now Russia and China will work with us without strings attached. Viva BRICS+++++++++🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦
But is the USA causing this, teh usa and NATO countries are the enemy of AFrica since day one. BRICS will rule the world and the united states will fail with their wicked pride flag.
I am a Kenyan and many people in Kenya have always looked up to SA. I visited SA a few years ago and I was so exited that finally, an African Country willing to do things right. Today, I have no desire to visit SA and in about 5 - 10 coming years, SA will be just like the rest of our rundown African countries. For sure, there is a problem with the Black Man (don't roast me yet) because look around, at least our black leaders have succeeded in one thing, and that is Finishing us completely.
I totally believe you and agree with you 100%. Here in the US, we have some cities run by the same "people" and they are falling apart just like Africa. Just google Baltimore and Philadelphia which is close to where I live. Same problems, crime, corruption and loss of business.
Facts Baltimore Chicago New York Philadelphia 😢😢😢😢😢
@@idontdohumans5950 There is more: Detroit, Atlanta, LA, Memphis, St Louis...the list goes on!
I can only speak on behalf of Baltimore MD from personal experience because I grew up there. It's turned into a $h**hole. We need to put the "colonizers" back in charge.
@@adnaansheikh1 hey!! the gays and the yuppies have fixed atlanta again. And in the riots they only managed to burn a Wendy’s down unlike Minneapolis. Also because of how wide our highways are we can commute from further out and be in safer suburbs
Same in the uk…Croydon- majority black is bankrupt and so is slough- majority Indian and ruled by them. Failed counties
I think pollution is the least of south africa concerns. If you can't keep the power on, that's the end of a country. Without power that means no refrigeration, no cars, no industry. Rip south africa.
The U.S. media is completely ignoring this. Same goes with whatever is happening in the countries south of the border that is causing millions to come this way.
The problem with the renewables is that any equipment that is not behind a regiment of well-trained, well-armed and committed defenders will simply be stolen/vandalised. The current system is suffering the same fate now. And all of this depends on the money not being stolen through dodgy tenders given to unqualified parties as has happened in most government services to date.
Graft, but most black Africans aspire to do graft.
In which case maybe Wind is better than solar , being much harder to access / vandalise from ground level
So, gangs steal solar panels and equipment and sell it, or do they only damage it ?
I watched a documentary analysis of installing solar in the Sahara, it said without armed guards 24 x 7 the political rivals would destroy the public solar systems
@@Froggability Nah. Fairly easy to sabotage and expensive enough to matter. Expect black mail.
Why are African countries plagued with extreme corruption? That's the question we Africans should ask ourselves. Africa's politics is just similar to the way criminal gangs and cartels run things...
Because there's a cartel and criminals that run most of these African countries behind the scenes, and they need these countries to be unstable so they can loot for free. Hence the corruption is rife.
echos from the extractive colonial institutions which once dominated the continent. when the colonialists disappeared they left their levers of power which were taken over by a newer, African class of people, who utilized the same institutions for their own greed.
@@TheNotSoFakeNews exactly, colonialism was never about white man controlling black man
It was always about the rich having the power. Money doesn’t discriminate.
@@danh555 it did manifest itself into (rich) white men controlling black men in Africa though, we can't deny that there was a lot of racism involved. However yes, it was primarily driven by extraction of wealth from the poorest to the richest.
It's similar to the west where corruption is just legal ...
God bless South Africa!
Coal can be clean if scrubbers are used on the exhaust. They don't bother so it burns dirty.
Hey 👋 how are you doing..?
@@honestj820 hi
@@VinylToVideo Nice meeting you here where are you originally from??
i love my country to bits. the goverment made me lose all hope that i had left in this world. I dont think i want to have children anymore in this country. Crime is out of control and the racism faced by people who is not BLACK is concerning.
I’m in Limpopo, just do it we need all the help we can get
@@AkaidanTv yeah, have a child and put in decades of effort only for some lowlife ghetto parasite to shoot him in the back of the head to steal the 5 dollars in his pockets and steal his cellphone or whatever the criminals usually target in that part of the world.
you guys are screwed. you pulled off a germany and went in the complete opposite extreme like dummies. went from putting people into ovens like maniacs to becoming the weakest most limp-wristed and pathetic woke radical democrat bleeding-heart leftist traitors and allowing unvetted radical islamic jihadists to flood the place by the millions and take over without firing back a single shot to defend their country and their families from the third world menace. or in your case, from treating the colorful people as rabid worthless animals and keeping them segregated, to now doing the opposite and eradicating the good hard-working law-abiding freedom-loving productive white taxpayers that were keeping everything together and that had enough brains to operate the power plants and everything and keep the lights on. literally filled the government with nothing but colorful so-called "poor persecuted victims" that have now taken over and that are crushing you. basically letting the inmates run the asylum. it's quite incredible, to be honest. i think the only other example of this other than germany must be zimbabwe or something where they kicked out the white farmers and stole their land and then starved to death, and now they're begging for whites to come back to clean up their mess and run everything for them.
and it's not just about the so-called colorful "leadership" being corrupt and everything, it's also about the physical infrastructure itself. when they europeans showed up, the locals were running around with bows and arrows and feathers in their heads like savages and didn't even have written languages or even the most basic civilization beyond maybe some mud hut villages attacking each other and slaughtering each other and enslaving each other because their witch doctor elder licked a brightly-colored frog and hallucinated a vision about the gods supposedly telling him that a great sickness and locust plague was gonna hit the village unless they slaughtered and raped the devil-worshipers in the neighboring village. that was africa before europeans. and the europeans allocated a heck of a lot of effort and resources into turning those places around and educating them and building schools, roads, hospitals, power plants, railroads, dams, highways, etc. and turning them into developing countries. for decades europeans did absolutely everything for them. and how did the two-faced backstabbing locals pay them back? by waiting for global conflicts and instability and seizing the opportunity to strike back against europeans and revolt and play mr. independent tough guys that now call the shots and that don't need europeans anymore. didn't see them complaining when europe was building everything for them and keeping their crapholes running and holding their hands for them as if they were a bunch of babies. but as soon as europeans were busy fighting an existential threat in europe or were weakened after having just fought a global war that saved the world from authoritarian communist regimes, the africans stabbed them in the back and attacked and proceeded to revolt and ask for independence. and of course, as soon as they got it, they immediately proceeded to start slaughtering each other and carrying out genocides and coups and assassinations with illiterate cannibal warlord dictators fighting for power. and obviously the europeans didn't carefully fold their power plants and highways and ports and roads and hospitals and airports and put them in their back pocket to bring them back to europe with them. they left all of that stuff behind. and predictably, the locals ran every single one of those things straight into the ground and couldn't find anyone with two brain cells to rub together to operate power plants or even the most basic piece of infrastructure. and they weren't about to step on their ego and admit that they didn't have the brains to run countries and go back to europeans to ask for help.. nope, they just kept going and kept faking it and acting as if they knew what they were doing.
well, guess what.. infrastructure doesn't just keep running by itself, it doesn't maintain itself. it gets degraded and breaks down over time and requires a constant and stable amount of funding in order to keep everything running and build new power plants and highways and ports and everything years before the current old existing ones reach the end of their projected service life. our first world civilized western nations didn't become the best countries in the world by snapping our fingers and expecting brand new infrastructure and prosperity and high standards of living to start falling out of the sky. that requires educated people working hard and allocating resources to such projects instead of having the whole budget going into the pockets of some african warlord. the stuff doesn't just keep running by magic. it's an ongoing effort to keep everything running smoothly and carry out enough maintenance to make sure that everything works. and these are concepts that are seemingly completely foreign to africans and most angry bitter jealous third worlders. they want everything handed to them on a silver platter. well, they had that, and they let it go to shit, which exactly why they are now driving on muddy jungle roads with potholes big enough to swallow small trucks and dealing with power cuts for like 12 hours per day. because all of their stuff is literally things that europeans have built for them decades or a hundred years ago, which they didn't even bother maintaining. reminds me of footage that i saw a while back of a locomotive slowly moving forward on a railway somewhere in africa. the lines looked as if you had asked a two year old to draw a straight line, and the locomotive was leaning back and forth and had to move at like two miles per hour to avoid tipping over and derailing. that's african infrastructure for you. either that or some chinese communist party garbage belt and road debt-trapping project to build some crap in downtown mogadishu for a couple of billions, as if the starving people living in a failed state with no functioning government need a new chinesium tramway line passing through their mud hut encampment with no running water or electricity..
that's basically african infrastructure. either european stuff from a hundred years ago that they have allowed to go to shit, or chinese crap that is made with the cheapest chinesium materials that is gonna fall apart and come crashing down in a few years and that is designed to debt-trap them and take control of their resources or get 99 year leases for ports and airports and bases to station a bunch of chinese military dollar store ships and aircraft in the region.
so yeah, the idea that south africa in particular is gonna be able to turn that around and somehow become "green" and save the polar bears is absolutely hilarious. they can't even operate coal technology from two hundred years ago and afford to keep the lights running, but they're gonna get it done with some "green" gadgets that some autistic swedish teenager is pushing and that generates electricity that costs like 10 times more? yep, sounds legit. i'm sure it'll work out. hah, what a joke.
the best thing that white people in south africa can do is to either attempt to get the heck out of there and pray that civilized western countries are gonna take them in as refugees fleeing the efforts of the colorful south african regime to exterminate whites, or just get together and load up on weapons and security systems and build a goddamn fortress of a community that can hold back the criminals. but honestly that is just a temporary solution, the hordes of colorful are eventually gonna breach even the strongest defenses once shit hits the fan and everything collapses and the regime cannot provide even the most basic things such as electricity. and it's looking like that scenario isn't very far away.
good luck if you're white in south africa. you're gonna need it.
This stewardess is amazing. You can hear her voice about to break but she’s holding it together. Gave me chills!
The worst thing that ever happened to Africa was home rule
???? So why? ANC got the power they wanted and this is the result???!! Is the country no longer able to vote? Id assume not any more if so corrupt
That is what you get when you Vote for the ANC government
While we struggle to live in 10 to 12 hours of no electricity, it affects so many other things like water supply. After a day of work you come home to dry taps and no power to prepare a meal for the family. Daily we hear that the length of power outages will increase and this adds to the stress the people are living with as they try to juggle timetables around Eskom’s merciless loadshedding. A working country has been destroyed one State Owned Enterprise at a time. The rot has just continued to spread.
These "renewables" are a nice addition to the grid, but you still need a 24/7 base load. Nuclear is far and away the best option - but a nuclear power plant will need incredible security and, preferably, outside (non-corrupt) management.
They complain yet still vote the culprits into power.
That's the mentality of africans. We love to make our own mistakes which infuriates me and I asked myself a question about this mentality.
To those of us living there in the 70's/80's this comes as no surprise. Zimbabwe was the lesson history failed to teach us. Such a shame as it was the happiest place, the most abundant place I ever lived.
When whites run it
In the early eighties I met a Zimbabwean lady of Indian origin in London. She told me she was going back home to have her baby rather than have her baby in London. Much better facilities I was told. Look at Zimbabwe now
Just because it has been mismanaged the last 20 years doesn't mean Apartheid was good.
@@Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong apartheid was abolished long before the blacks taken over everything
Could not agree with you more. However, it does speak to the West insisting on change and at too fast a pace. If there had been a handover, a transition period, with a restructuring plan an infrastructure plan a new housing plan, such as in Hong Kong, then the people - which bringing down apartheid was supposed to empower - may have enjoyed the fruits of their labours.
Just remember that the BBC pushed the ANC very hard in 1994.
It's not exactly hard to be opposed to a segregated, authoritarian state. Basically the whole world was against the former regime by the end.
@@Darkpara1 There is a difference between protesting an injust system and propping up a corrupt terrorist organisation.
Bbc full of shit liberals
@@Darkpara1 Go to Israel and tell them too.
Here in the US, the majority has no idea of what real poverty is …
The cold shoulder from Mr Gwede Mantashe when asked about Mr Andre De Ryter's poisoning is shocking
It's so sad that so many people are leaving because they simply don't see a future there.
Unfortunately, a lot of us have no way out.
My neighbours who have been in SA for generations have been broken into so many times now that they are packing up and moving to the UK
@@derekbarker5870 personally I think all Europeans should be given asylum by Europe
@@Dan847 Europeans in South Africa are who Europe should give asylum too, not the dingy pirates in the Channel.
@@Dan847 Good riddance
They blame the western world...but they actually stole from their own future. The end is near
blaming the ones above is always the most easiest and useless thing you can do. they only have themselves to blame for what happens in their home evey single bad thing it happens in your country can be traced back to your own mistakes. when you can't take accoutability you are destined toi fail.
Well it was the West that sanctioned Apartheid to death. Marxism looks like it would finally win. We all will become poor in the far future.
Back to the Stone Age from whence they came. Thankyou BEE and ANC. 🙏
I was under the impression once South Africa got rid of minority self rule that everything would get better. What’s happened? It’s now no different than any other African Country.