South Africa's State of Disaster  

Corruption really does ruin everything

Corruption is the bane of all developing countries.

It was not Eskom who didn't want to build new power stations, it was the ANC government.

I work in IT and can confirm that many South African high skilled workers joined our company and moved to the Netherlands.

It's very sad and true. I just graduated with electrical engineering and along with my peers none of us are interested in staying, with most of us securing places in Europe instead.

Zimbabwe soon. Tribal mentality instead of National Identity.

The crazy thing about Eskom is that we grew up with electricity. I remember when I still lived in SA, you could be in the dark from 8PM-10PM randomly which just ruins your evening

These shorts are quite nicely to keep you informed ^^

Didn't SA fire the competent/qualified managers due to their wrong skin color? This is the same issue that's happening with SA's farmland situation. Yields have been plummeting due to unqualified persons taking over farmland from people of the wrong skin color.

Love the short form videos. I encourage you to add sources, especially as RU-vid matures and creators need to assert their credibility.

My south African friend told me they keep going without power sometimes 12 hours a day for weeks, he said he will move out, they can't take it.

Corruption causes brain drain.

I worked with a girl whose husband was a senior electrical engineer for this company but lost his job and couldn’t get another job because he was white, so he moved to Australia She was also a fully qualified senior accountant. How does a country survive when all your skilled people are leaving?

The ANC ruined ZA. Plain and simple.

that and it's worse... most municipalities give free electricity, that cannot pay back to eskom. I once looked at the accounts of one municipality that I cannot name, but it was near Groot Marico and I was completely flabbergasted. apparently they will never pay, just keep the account open, once the municipality leaves ANC, Eskom will collect

We call blackouts In South Africa: Loadshedding we call it that because we have turns of having power

"Replaced competent manager with corrupt one" Yeah..... Let's say it like that...... It was totally not a racially motivated move to blew in their face. Sweet justice.

Outing competent workers for the colour of their skin is not racism as long as this color is white, right? So, what can possibly go wrong?

The ANC government in 1998 was warned that the loadshedding crisis will affect the nation if they didn't maintain at any time but the warning was ignored and look how SA is.

Why from BRICS slowly turn into BIC

When Roman Empire can't survive from corruption, then how others could expect to do better?

Im loving these shorts of yours.

Yep. Moved to Deutschland and never looked back

Congratulations on reaching 250K subs!

My grandparents ysed to say that the power never went off in their days, but since I was little the power was always going off everyday so i’m used to it, We once went to Thailand last year (I knew that it’s only out country’s power that goes off like that btw), and I was amazed with the fact that we could stay there for 3 weeks and always have power. Once there was a blackout in the hotel for a minute and I could hear some people freaking out and stuff, It was actually hilarious

good luck to South Africa and BRICS overtaking the USD

I would love if you did a review of the Nigerian economy and its new cashless policies. Recently, we had our government implement a currency redesign that ended up causing a severe note scarcity.

Corruption and incompetence always wins.

The fact that they had the most efficient power plants and made more electricity 30 years ago is crazy. The down grading fr. Not even a developing country anymore!

I'm a South African BSc Computer Science graduate currently doing my Honors. I'll most likely also be heading to Europe when I'm done

In Uzbekistan we have six months blackouts a year in some places

The blackouts are a bit longer than "hour long" every day! Piece in the FT today, coal is getting stolen, copper wire getting stolen and the CEO who was trying to clean things up says he survived an attempted assassination.

What changed so dramatically that caused such widespread decline in South Africa? The military, police, economy, high culture, currency strength, government, crime rate, illegal immigration, brain drain. Etc etc etc. everything has declined SO dramatically since the 1990s. 🤔🤔🤔

After ANC onwards, anyone with high-level skills got out of SA which is now a failed state.

Canada has seen an influx of SA doctors who are very welcomed as thousands of doctors reach retirement age. I wonder if it is related to this video's topic.

Bro South Africa has been going through that for years since its creation we r already used to it

It should be illegal for politicians to have friends

When you are decided by colour but not by merit.

It pains me to say this, the previous government was more competent than the ANC who currently controls the nation. If you think my statement is harsh, Bishop Desmond Tutu, who passionately protested against the Apartheid Government, said, " The ANC was worse than Apartheid Government."

As a South African I can confirm loadshedding happens for long time and alot

1 hour without power a day? It's more like 10 hours a day without power right now.

Corruption, and what I've understood, affirmative action. The lines are probably blurry here.

Well, in Europe building powerplants is also a problem. Yeah, renewable like wind and solar plants are growing but not those which provide electricity when the wind isnt blowing and sun isnt shining. Crazy germans politics.

South African here. This is unfortunately exactly what has been happening. All of our state owned enterprises have been hammered by the Jacob Zuma led ANC.

The Escom infrastructure was establishment during the apartheid years and provided power at that stage to black townships and industrial areas. Why do you state that it was done AFTER apartheid? In fact the power supplies from - Tremendously large co plants in Eastern Transvaal - 3 Nuclear power stations - The Cahora Basa Hydroelectric plant in Mozambique - 3 Nuclear Power Plants - The Lesotho Highland dam en Hydro Electrical plant All this was already enough to last up to 2080 Power was cheap, and the state owned organization subsidized the power through own fund management schemes. That was before the Mafia Kleptocrats got their hands on the business

Thank you for this ❤

stock photo of "competent manager" actual photo of "corrupt manager" I wonder why..

Instead tackling internal issues and provide better life for the citizens,SA gov prefers to be the puppet of other nations and play the game in their name. The people of SA deserve better what a beautiful country with different cultures I hope someday the people of SA get to be prosperous and happy ❤️

Thanks!

Anc has the contracts to supply diesel to Eskom... Eskom runs its backup gensets and don't want to fix the coal plants because they make 1 billion dollars per month.....

I'm Indonesian, when I was little I often had blackouts, but it didn't matter to me because in those days the use of electricity wasn't as important as now, now blackouts happen with notifications so I can charge my devices

In Myanmar and some parts of Zimbabwe I lived, there was permanent load shedding, no electricity and little water supply. We still survived without complaining vainfully. Used wisdom instead. Anti-corruption policy in SA is laughable.

In Nigeria we go for days without electricity, sometimes years without electricity

Providing power to the rest of the country that cant pay their bills was the big mistake

What a failure of a country

You know what Africa can find fault of everyone else. Yet can never point the blame at them selves for corruption. At the same time I believe lights should be paid by the Government and free for all PEOPLE.

It's sad but now, we see why Apartheid was defended for so long by the European minority (same thing in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe). There must be a balance where equality is given to normal citizens but the power stays in the hand of competent (mostly White) individuals.

so the natives took over the british colony and it's now in shambles

Corruption is just normal uncivilized human behavior. We don't need a word for Corruption, we need a word for noncorruption because that's the special thing to be. In developed countries, we just forced everybody to transform into uncorrupt, and now we think it's normal, and we expect everyone in other countries to just be uncorrupt naturally without thinking about how to transform them into that very specific state.

Another thing to add was that money that was supposed to be allocated to building new power plants.

Please do a video on the Zambian economy. They have a new president who is promising economic growth and chopping corruption. IT WOULD MAKE FOR A GREAT VIDEO!

A very necessary analysis. Very interest to see how you analyse and present this story line.

I wonder how much power is used on residential electric fences

Please keep making these

You're right, and then the people say things like the government doesn't care about us, they don't provide basic services, etc, but you know what the people keep on voting for those competent leaders each year who is start of all the problems

Poor Africa will always be broke.

Corruption 🤢🤢

Plz make a report on d state of India's current infrastructure issues, and thank you.

Yea I hate it

Would love a video about SA economy.

Why did you put a black woman as the backdrop for "competent managers"?

If the managers didn't plan ahead - was it a case of firing competent or incompetent managers? I understand the narrative here, but failing to plan ahead is the definition of incompetent right? Love the channel, don't mean to be too critical.

Hour-long blackouts? Try 2-4hrs at a time, 3 times a day.

dont be vooled it is corruption

this will be the United States in 20 years

Oh looks like the pattern is consistent. In the early 20th century, Japan succeeded, China failed. China still has the same electrification problem, with blackouts due to growing demand and ineffectual administrative handling of state business. Both factors have become predictable and therefore preventable problems.

*6 to 10 hour blackouts

Soon the whole country will be black outed.

Something is not reallu publicly owned & controlled unless the Public are electing the CEO in some way.

Where are my Indians at 😂🎉. Hour long is nothing.

This is not new. It was been going on for a long time. #BRICS

It's been like that for years And it's usually 2 hours

ANC was good but we need to vote them out they are terrible

This video makes you think the power is off for an hour or two only, but in reality, it's 2, 4, 6, and even 8hrs at a time, depending on wgat stafe of 'loadshedding' Eskom enforces on us. They knew the infrastructure needed maintenance and expansion, but yhe funds for this dissappeared into executives pockets in the form of bonuses or outright theft. So nothing was done to rectify the problem which has since become a disaster. When loadshedding first started over 10 years ago, I would call Joburg City Power to report the outage in my area. City Power would say it was an accident of some sort, and technicians were busy with the problem, but as time went by I realized tgat 'accidents' DON'T happen on dot of 2pm, or 2:30pm, and last exactly 2 hours, everytime! The odds of a breakdown on the hour mark and the resumption on the hour mark are impossible! After a few years of this bullshit, they came clean, without apologizing, and initiated structured loadshedding. This is the lying, inept mentality of those in power. Pun intended.

Black culture started running the show

Do a whole show on this!!!

Zimbabwization of South Africa

I can go to town whenever I want to, my grandfather needed a passport, millions of blacks, thousands? 😂 I see we still pushing propaganda. From less than 10 million with electricity to 60 million and we blaming black peoole for the mess you created😂 I love your ability to push the blame to other people

8 to 12 hours every day.

Suffering from Success

Yup u right

Why do they need to build power stations? Surely some windmills would do the job...

is there a full video?

As a South African I can confirm this is true

Hour long😂...we wish. 2-4 officially, and then anything above 4 depending on other factors. It's grimmer than you think

You are not telling the truth. Even during Apartheid more blacks in South Africa had access to electricity than the rest of Africa combined. Eskom has NEVER discriminated against customers based on skin colour but on the colour of your money! The anc made electricity a political football. Eskom has always been profit driven. Supplying ANY paying customer.

Same story everywhere isn’t it?

how curious about the corrupt ones

Tribal mentality instead of national identity we will blame the white man though

History has proven so many times that replacing the competent with loyalist .... failure follows. Ask'm about their farmers