The Most Broken Economy on Earth 

Do you live in Singapore

Keep in mind that you’re in one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. Maybe try going closer to home? Have you ever driven around Manila outskirts

@@benchoflemons398 Those are shocking… you leave the airport in Manila, and you’ll literally see people living under bridges. The contrasts in Manila are also shocking.

Yeah...

you literally live in singapore most cities on earth are dogshite dirtpoor in comparison

Yeah, they always say a certain country has beautiful people landscapes weather when they don’t have anything nice to say about it and it’s always the most corrupt countries that get the “beautiful and honest people” compliment

It really does though, which is why I don’t want to leave.

It's often the only compliment. Like Switzerland is beautiful, and has a functioning economy. That's all it has to offer.

It really does have an extraordinarily beautiful landscape. I was lucky enough to visit South Africa last summer for a field trip, I spent a week on a private game reserve, so thankfully didn't see any of the bad parts of the country. The only thing I did notice was that all of the "important" people at the game reserve were white, whilst the general staff like cooks and cleaners were all black, which I suppose is a hold over from the education problems apartheid caused.

the only think I can compliment my home country on (South Africa) is its nice weather and beautiful mountains that give great views with the beautiful forests. But besides that the country is a absolute waste, There are parts where you would think the land is living after a nuclear fallout while most other parts look like complete dumps.

I agree but the way he said Soweto had my traumatized 😮😂

@@jubileemkhwanazi436and the way he said Ramaphosa😂

Vote pls

​@@human1043 and Afrikaaans

No.

Wait till they see that "true" africans (yk what I mean) get payed higher than whites

I've heard people praise the great open plains of Indiana while I get awestruck by mountains If you live there, you're just use to it i guess, new things excite people

I am visiting Cape Town in March is it that bad? Looks ok to me lol

@@aynrandfan7454 the nature here is amazing, if you ever go on another trip to Sa then you should go to vaalwater

@@kumeater I only have 5 days in cape town before boarding a 21 cruise around west coast of Africa up to Barcelona … next time I will visit the interior and the national parks for sure

Apartheid was an easy way to keep things from getting out of hand, it is definitely used for a scapegoat. While it did have it's problems it did a VERY good job at keeping the peace for the most part which was it's entire point It still blows my mind that while people mention that it had 4 different group distinctions not many ever take the time to look and see that there were more than 4 districts. Meanwhile everyone pretends that the current state of things with the ANC is any different than if South Africa had never had the english come to it at all and the Boers went further north naturally; looking at Africa most nations are more or less in the same boat as SA so I think it would more or less be the same but with quite a bit fewer luxuries. Stay safe friend

@@victorkreig6089 found the white supremacist

Apartheid cannot be justified under any circumstances Victor given that it denied dignity to over 80% of the population. The peace you alluding to was nothing but superficial in that there can never be peace without dignity. As for ANC, we are agreed that this party just like the majority of liberation parties in Africa have failed thier people. I would also mention that the indignity that came with apartheid is actually the one that has made ANC win elections since independence because the majority of the voters today, experienced apartheid first hand and will not vote otherwise for fear of it resurfacing. South Africa will experience a government change only after the so called 'born frees' become majority voters which is some decades away.

@@Ugly_Peace the ANC is a terrorist organization that murdered children And you are 100% wrong, the segregation kept the country together and in working order it is far FAR worse now than it ever was back then But that's okay I'm sure you'll have an epiphany during the next rolling blackout

​@@Ugly_Peace "some decades away" south africa will be in ruins by then

So when a small angry man with a silly mustache came along, and said that he could fix everything, the people loved him

He’s spitting facts

has hoser deleted future of Pakistan video?

@Adam S. ever heard of the EFF

I wonder who the next mustache man is going to be

The problem is demographically most people who have that money to get out and can weather the red tape of immigrating (favorable passports and other resources like family with similar access) is also inherently unequal, so for the majority of us South Africans (esp black & poor) simply don't have the option to leave or even rebuild

@@lusandantintili8668 So at least the inequality within south africa gets less

​@propagandalf123 thats adorably naive, not investing in a country will always lead to further inequality especially for ghe ppl who have no fighting chance to get out. Its the market.

Glad to have you. Just please don't vote for greens and commies or nz will go down the drain as well.

Not only that, but their power utility company, Eskom, was seen as the BEST IN THE WORLD only about 20 years ago😂 How they fucked that up is beyond me

​@@MaximumMatador you mean before it catered for everyone.

The truth is that South Africa is not even the top 100 most corrupt. The corruption is considered average to low, which is why we haven't been sanctioned. The real reason for power blackouts is because during apartheid only white areas had electricity and when anc took over they had the task of borrowing billions of rands to improve eskom and try to cater to the rest of the country which has not been very successful.

every European with a few braincells has left that country. They cant just replace all of that with murder and expect the electricity to come on.

People don't understand there's 10,000's of people leeching off the grid with shotty wiring

It seems like we all want to leave. Everyone in my immediate circle is going to college/University just so they can get qualifications that allow them to emigrate. Mainly to Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc

There is no future here so the only option is to leave maybe one day this country will succeed but time with tell when it will happen

Yes but also we must not vote for the EFF they would make the country even worse

The IQ required to work any job in civilization is 85 per project 100,000. The average black IQ is 70 in sub saharan africa. Something like 80% of black sub saharans are mentally disabled. Its really that simple, they didnt' even have the wheel before contact. And remember IQ is majority hereditary, more genetic than height.

@TheGlassesPro I will also vote when the time comes but as I said I’m avoiding the ANC. My parents will also avoid the ANC even though we are apart of the black population! DA seems to be a decent choice and the EFF is just a choice I don’t think will sit well.

Are black people the problem?

Which city?? If its near jozy, then you should know they are called Amapara-para

@@neonik6204 Gqberha 😭

As a south african youth, it is it's super depressing :'D 👍

Sending blessing to you I’ve been considering visiting your country but not where most tourists go I’ll be with someone most of the time they’ve tought me about how to conduct myself there

We must look at the future of this nation with hope lest we want to grow indifferent and hapless to the situations, the fact that we have the ability to even access the internet leaves us with great responsibility to make micro changes within SA . Fight however u can, however you are willing to, but dont be a hopeless youth

As a young person you ned to learn your history... The ANC, for all my hatred of it, has pulled out more white people out of poverty in 30 years than the racist, mass-murdering, human-rights violating National Party scum would have even in another 60 yers (IMF, World Bank< and even CIA world fact book - and even the OECD, and some investment banks like JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, UBS and MunichRe)... don't take my word for it!!! But feel free to live to a shithole somewhere in the West where you think you will be better able to take care of your family (as in a country where a secretary/receptinist) can affrod to hire a domestic worker, gardener, take their children to school for free and still have a government stipend (peanuts as it is, but I bet there's a lot of Westerrn countries who'd love their Govt's to give them $20 per month when school, electricity and water are already free or heavily subsidised depending on income bracket... But go on, leave!!!

I’m off in one hour sigh.

@@Tokolos POV : your power stays on till 3am

A company that sells electricity to its customers, knows they have to buy the product whether they want to or not can make their slogan "nobodys perfect"

💩😳

Same thing right now.

District nine?

Oh my god you're right...Jesus that movie is scary in how it portrays south African corruption. Yeah, shits still fucked as it was before the slimes came in that movie. The aliens would've been better off landing in Mauritius 😂

​@@georgerockwell6124Yep

@@admech590 also something to keep in mind, because of the aliens there was likely a surge of new forms of income in the area, granted most of it not legal

Also 1/6 of the population has HIV and the ANC has sometimes made this crisis worse Edit: 13.7% for the whole population, 19.5% for those aged 15-49

BASED

​@@hoangquanle3310 supporting a terrorist is based to you

Oh my, that is amazing. Way better than just, "to honor you," it was "to embarrass your enemies."

In Czech Republic the russian embassy is on the "Heroes of Ukraine" street lol

​@@SirSpruce1478 hehehehe. Now thats are humiliating for moskals for sure)

You guys need revolution

@@madhavmathur4008 They already had one, the ANC is the revolutionary government.

@@madhavmathur4008 they already had a revolution. More than one if you count the white South Africans

Spot on im from Zimbabwe but I studied in sa its like a second home to me

Don't loose hope in democracy! if your politicians fail you, it is time to take the matters to the streets

I'd hardly call it balanced. The narrative around the history of South Africa is quite astoundingly anti-white. Firstly, South Africa wasn't a country before white Europeans arrived, it was just a vast swathe of land. Largely unoccupied. Then to highlight "inequality" after white Europeans built everything and made the country rich-- why would other Africans and people living on neighboring land be entitled to what white Europeans had built? There would be no "inequality" if white Europeans hadn't arrived and built everything because everyone would still be dirt poor and living in mud huts. There's now been 30 years of black rule and "inequality" hasn't changed and the basic infrastructure the whites built has fallen apart. This despite the fact that when the whites were in power they were subject to sanctions and economic aggression from all quarters, while during black rule it's been the opposite-- the west has been desperate to invest and make the country a success.

The weirdest thing is talking to tourists who visit the wealthy parts of Cape Town, and assume that the rest of this god-forsaken country is exactly like that, when in reality, most of us black folk live in squalor

@@bohlalemofokeng2333 exactly. they’ll avoid those areas like the plague and not get the full picture of what’s really going on here

this is the exact response i was going to give. i live in Joburg as well. i still do believe this country can become great one day. the Rally will occur one day in the Future. be Blessed All!

Xenophobia against other Africans is as a result of this frustration.

As a South African...comments like this, and aa couple of hundred others on here... Tell me exactly what a HIGHLY IGNORANT POPULATION WE ARE... Don['t know much about the state of the world, the state of other countries corruption, how crumbling the so-called West's infrastructure is, and how much so many other ALLEGEDLY INDUSTRIALISD countries have it worse than us... The greatest triumph of the Western Institution (if we can call the West an INSTITUTION) has been to convince the AFRICANS that they arent shit and will never amount to anything and they're inferior to the West... Meanwhile... The Weat is falliong apat and behind, and needs Africans to believe they need the West becaue the West runs on African resources!!! you should go look at the amount of development happening in Africa, and how much is falling apart in the WEST!!!!

That's funny.😄

You're one of the lucky ones who got out. Hopefully I'll join you once I graduate

Lol... In Nigeria you we have vigilantes that we pay for our protection. But they usually last no less than 2 months as they either clash with our very corrupt police or kill some random dude... Yeah...

@@TheStickman419 Nigeria never ceases to amaze me

That happened to some places in america

@@frederickvonabel6349 Yeah. It's shameful but the only thing my country's government excels at, is to find new and creative ways to disappoint its citizens.

That's just not true!! A circus run by clowns - yes!!

That's most developed countries too lol, it's just less fucked, more covert and higher stakes (white collar crime on much bigger scales)

Black rule in a nutshell.

​@@TeikonGomsomeone didn't watch the video

@@etoyoshimura301 Someone didn't open their eyes.

Word. If you feel like you have a purpose, that brings more happiness than any artifical happiness that monetary success brings. A lot of western countries have an individualistic culture. Which while it has its benefits, can bring a lack of community and loneliness. That's where the sense of community of the African culture prevails. As someone from Nepal I relate a lot to the issues faced by the African countries because we have a lot in common. We are on the right trajectory. In the future, things will become better

SA rainbow is only colorful for whities ❤

​@@aapworldwidetrue. Nepal is on Good trajectory and improving too. It will be a middle income country soon. Love to Nepal from India

@@srilakshmidevanathan8334 yo likewise, much love from Nepal to India. There has been a lot of development within India in the past 30 years. Ofcourse there are setbacks and difficulties every now and then, but yall are also on the right trajectory

Okay settler

He was also a prisoner for a reason

To move forward we need a growing economy...to build a growing economy we need the land... Have white people not understaood the relationshiop between land and commerce...Anf the fact that the oppressed, whom the land was stolen form, can't do anything economically without land... Do you think we're alchemists...The land was taken in the pst...without it there is no future as there is no economy... Don't you get it... Again the land was TAKEN IN THE PAST AND WITHOUT IT THERE IS NO FUTURE... BASIC ECONOMIC...or have you never once read an economic book or even a bank brochure on a bond!???!

I agree. This country has gone down a deep hole

@@Woistwahrheit Yeah it's managed to go through rock bottom

Wow is it really that bad there? I wish the best of luck to your country, I could never imagine what people living in South Africa have to experience due a to corrupt and racist government

Yup its a shame about the hordes of low IQ basketballs

Well i want to leave the country when im done with high school but i still love this country even if we have a shit government the country is a beautiful place with great people but is controlled by thugs

South Africa should divide into its constituent populations, not necessarily white and black, but those who will work hard to better their land and those who will not work hard, but want things for free. The ANC should be outlawed - they have brought us all to this!

@@samuelross9884 You see Sam people like you don't understand the severity of what you are actually saying, if it weren't for the like-minded people of the ANC, we would have ended up with a country that couldn't even be called one anymore, but then again they are the reason we face most of our problems today, but we cannot put the blame solely on them alone. And what your suggesting here that we should 'divide' when we are already so divided...You my friend deserve a Darwin Award.

​@Mykel Putting the blame on the most skilled and productive part of the population is the Zimbabwe strategy. Worked great for them... South Africa is sliding toward similar policies though, and murders of whites are increasing leading them to leave resulting in brain drain.

​@@samuelross9884 this retarded way of thinking is what is keeping south africa behind, which country has improved by "dividing"?

@@mykel9834 Thank you. I understand this will be difficult, but the end in sight is worth it.

Yeah following the Muslims.

​@@peterjackson6700 smartest comment lol. In Europe, It's always mostly Whites who being jobless and knife-toting thugs for such burglars crap Statically... Use your brain 🧠, buddy.. don't drunk and smoke weed

IT SUCKS WHEN YOU HAVE TO FIRE UP THE GENERATOR JUST TO POWER THE ELECTRIC FENCE LOL

@@daggggy We are on the new "Load Limiting" pilot program from Eskom. Basically, they only cut power from Stage 5 upwards. So we haven't had power cuts in a long time now since it when loadshedding is happening, they cap you at 2400w, which is good enough for tv, fence, lights, fans, kitchen appliances etc. They are likely going to expand this program. Works very well.

It's there already...but don't blame the immigrants from Africa or the Muslims as you hope we will read the implication... Rather, see the gangs operating in Europe and their brutality and violence...but have to love the European media's narrative of Europe and never reporting anything bad about Europe thus convincing the White global diaspora that all is lovely and a panacea over there...unless the Beards and black-heads ruin it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hopefully some NGO sells solar systems for cheap

@@cgmason7568 china

@@rizkyadiyanto7922 definitely not an NGO and definitely has too much involvement in Africa

*INTERMITTENTLY. That's an important fact that South Africans like to omit when complaining about loadshedding to foreigners.

The ANC inherited Eskom with the most reliable electricity and the least expensive electricity in the world. And now you have electricity for less than half the day.

again you are lucky to be in a certain place in canada. most people in canada are poor lol

@@MrWeenuk21what?? You need some perspective in what poverty is. Canadas median population are INCREDIBLY well off. “mOsT cAnAdIaNs ArE pOoR”

You're white i presume

hehe housing goes brrrrr

@@MrWeenuk21 OK but being poor in SA hits a little different

How is the ANC still in power, if there is this tangible legit problem that other parties can point to? Don't they lose popularity because the country is stil in shambles 30 years after apartheid? I mean, all i had to do if i was the head of a political party in south africa would be:"Look at the daily blackouts. Thats the fault of the government. My party can fix it" and then i'd get a lot of votes right? I'm not from south africa, so i don't know a lot about it. How has the ANC managed to stay in power? Is it just because of the popularity of their former leader Nelson Mandela?

@@MrXandervm black votes are the majority, blacks love ANC because it too is black.

@@MrXandervm they dont care about fixing it, they only care about their hate of apartheid and whites.

​@@MrXandervm Because the DA doesnt want the number 1 position. They know they will be blamed for the ANCs failure like they blame the ANC for apartheids failures. The loadshedding crisis has been a problem for nearly 20 years and will not be solved in the next 5 and probably not even 10 years. The ANC has screwed out country for at least two election cycles. So even if the DA won, they wouldnt be able to save country in time, all the while ANC is now blaming them.

There are alternatives to relying on Eskom

​@@caleb-- And the not white?

@@caleb-- I’m one that emigrated out of there along with my family. Best decision we ever made. We took our work ethic/skills elsewhere and is currently living a life we never dreamed of. South Africa will be the next Zimbabwe mark my words

@@beano6992 you mean Next Venezuela?

@@caleb-- thats an opinion...

@@caleb-- So tell me, please: What have they been in the past? Suppressed by a racist white regime?

india is a $hitwhole

has hoser deleted his future of Pakistan video?

@@spyrex3988 That's incredibly racist

@@welwitschia3756 I think not

​@@leaDR356 I swear the video had a thumbnail like 'future Indus superpower' now I can't see it anywhere.

How is the safety and economic development in Mozambique? Is it bad/getting worse, or good, improving, still in development?

@morriscolenbrander1395 Hi, sorry , I'm only seeing this reply today. I feel like both safety and economic development have been worsening over the years. Mozambique was never the safest country ever, but I know that I can walk around, unlike in South Africa, where you need to go everywhere by car. But in the last few years, it's slowly been worsening. In terms of the economy, life is getting more and more expensive, and nothing is being done about it. The minimum wage in this country is a bit less than 100 bucks, its sad cause how are people suposed to make a living with the price of everything skyrocketing and with less than a 100 dollars every month.

@@tatimilena4017 hey, thanks for replying. Sad to hear that... I hope it won't go in the same direction as South Africa. I hope that many African countries start to fulfill their potential in the near future

We supply you with electricity. Whilst you have power we don't.

Every country in the world is beautiful.

You are forgetting black incompetence.

I think that's 90% of countries in today's world.

@@ik2254 90%??

@@IllinoisCountryball 90% of residents in the world want to move somewhere else. Like, literally, anywhere apart from Canada, US, Japan and North-western europe people live way more poorer

@@ik2254 I think it’s more like 40% - 50%

@@IllinoisCountryball COUNTRIES, not people. There are ~200 countiries in the world. And only like 20 are decent: Japan, Canada, USA, France, GB, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Australia, New Zeland. Maybe I forgot a couple, but everywhere else is a poor shithole, where you make pennies on dollar that you would make, in USA, for example. OR a dictatorships with questionable future, like Saudi Arabia and UAE or Kuwait.

New trainers? This isn’t America 😅 we have illegal foreigners who steal them to sell them for food! The poor are desperate and I don’t think mocking them makes you a good judge of character

@Lets Play Minecraft I’m glad that the Philippines doesn’t have this issue. Philippines literally have a new Japanese created underground subway to be opened in 2026😂

Sounds like imitational democracy.

The DA keep pushing out Black politicians, and the EFF are just plain racist. Most South Africans are Black, they want to see Black South Africans in charge. When the DA starts supporting Black South African politicians, Black South Africans will vote for them.

@@jasonhaven7170 This also hurts to hear, but sadly, it is true, too.

@@lucasthegreat122 If the DA tried harder to be supportive of their Black members, they could win the election.

They vote knowing it's corrupt, they just believe that the other parties are worse. The main competitors are the DA and the EFF. The DA is basically toned down apartheid and the EFF are upstarts that will cause even more unrest than the ANC given that most of their politicking includes political party members and voters looting.

Most of South Africa’s population is really poor/unemployed but they are net beneficiaries of state subsidies or social welfare. As in, they have to deal with a shitty life as a result of the corruption and maladministration but they get free money every month. So they reason that if this welfare went away, they’d have nothing so they reward the party giving them money.

Not true as when I visit my family in Pakistan we would also experience load shedding regularly, we even call it that.

Load shedding is used everywhere, just not to the insane degree of South Africa. As an electrical engineer the basics of load shedding is that if generation and load are unequal then the voltage and frequency of the grid will deviate from nominal which will damage anything plugged into it. Normally you keep this balance by adjusting generation to match load, but if all available generation is maxed out and load keeps increasing the only thing you can do is shed some load, aka cut people off. In the interest of equity you move the areas disconnected around so that no individual is cut off for 6 hrs and instead everyone just gives up 15min which is alot more tolerable. (With some load like hospitals being declared critical and never being disconnected) The main difference between a functional grid and a disfunctional grid is that a functional one will almost never have to do any load shedding. (Special events like major heat waves or the Texas Icestorm can cause massive increases in demand, and possibly reduce available generation and this leads to load shedding, which is also called "rolling blackouts" and is the name most Americans are familiar with.)

​@@jasonreed7522 true

I only heard about it in a video on the texas power failure

Welcome to Bangladesh ya twat

We don’t know for sure because ppl evolve at different pace and time. Look at Mapungubwe kingdom for example if quite evident that the natives were civilized and knowledgeable long before settlers arrived.m Had the evil European never arrived I’m certain that native would be owning their land, mines and economy like the Arabs, Chinese etc. Truth is white settlers benefited largely from oppressing the natives. I’m talking land dispossession, forced labor, natives tax just to mention a few. Natives are currently the most educated group in SA in terms of qualifications., they’re brilliant hence you find them working in big corporations all over the world. So there’s no doubt that they would have made it without the arrival of the evil Europeans who left their continent because of poverty. @alexhayden2303

​@@robinson0186Chat, is this true?

@@maozedong69420 Of course not. Nature gave up on sub-saharans and so should everyone else. It's a bad joke at this point.

I think pretty much nothing will change. Everyone will be equally poor.

Most countries in Africa are moving forward even Zambia where I'm from had this issue way back and in January 2023 planned blackouts in Zambia were back but lasted only a month then everything went back to normal while in SA I read somewhere that they'll have load shedding for a few more years to come. What's funny is how pompous South Africans are online yet their country is sinking.

South Africa had at least a few decades head-start on Kenya in many ways and still is failing. A very depressing example for the world.

​@Joe problem with our electricity, is that there is a single company that runs all our electricity and due to years of corruption, mismanagement and most importantly very little actual repairs done to any substations. The substations break down very often because there was no servicing done for 20+ years. Further, while i cant confirm there is currently probably a bunch of corporate sabotage from the ANC and probably other political groups to use as a scapegoat. Doesnt help that all 3 of the top political parties suck, and the only one that the 4th, who in the areas actually do stuff are racist... its all fucked

It's called "The Great Regression"

​@@joe_lubinda those that are pompous are usually the ones who vote for the ones destroying our country

Subs?

@@RedRocketthefirst Yes, why does this content creator make good content? Not even science can solve this riddle.

Well, it's so so, as there is actually allot more intricate details that actually determine the why's of it all. It's not at all the assumption that whites are withholding but rather that Africans are clueless at creating wealth. Some do but even they won't share because despite them all talking about "their people" if given wealth, they actually don't give a shit about their "brothers and sisters"

He's smart

Factual? The man is biased as hell.

Hi Kirari!

I like to think that he covertly assimilates himself into online communities based where the next video topic is and just slowly learns by osmosis until it's second nature to him

He didn't speak about the targeted white farmer murders and torture though. Or the necklacing.

@@cockoffgewgle4993 why would he, it's an economics video

@@victorkreig6089 It isn't. It's a general video about South Africa.

@@londonspade5896not necessarily

@@kennypowers2341 we're already just Southern Zimbabwe mate.

Same here. In the 90's when the gov started dishing out power left right and centre, I told everyone I could that they were overloading the grid and not building new stations to increase our power output to match the increasing demand. So many told me I didn't know what I was talking about because I was only a teenager. Well..... the rest is history.

Helped cause Zimbabwe, saw it and didn't prepare for it, then became it. There you go

Why is it so common in South Africa?

As a South African what is your opinion on zimbabweans? Every time I go to twitter it seems like yall want me dead.

​@@bumbobaggins south africa hog wild man

@@bumbobaggins I can answer that for you: We honestly think that your country is making a recovery, after Mugabe, but it still has a long way to go.

@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Definitely better than you

@@bumbobaggins Black Africans have never been warm to one another. Count yourself lucky that you haven't been doused with petrol and burnt to death yet.

If Mandela wasn't so evil he would have made sure you guys built a couple more nuclear plants, Koeberg despite being on the smaller side puts out a good amount of energy and with 6-7 of them I doubt you'd have rolling blackouts What gets me is there have been what 5 other location proposals and yet none of them have gone anywhere?

@@theglassespro4557 not it isn't, most people don't know a damn thing about nuclear power and many people have used that fact to scare them into staying away from it for nearly a century now.

Now it is about ten hours.

@@Deontjie oof

@@victorkreig6089 South Africa could rely on solar power too. It's sad how nuclear has been demonized.

Are you from Joburg by any chance? And are you one of the 2 thirds of the youth population who is unemployed?

Lol not really man.

🤣💔 bro!!! we being baked

@@beaucaspar3990 the unemployment rate in South Africa is truly insane. It's only a matter of time until South Africa becomes a failed state

@@ndzululwazimangqalaza7880 my cousin can't ride 2km to work bc his neighbour did that and got his bike and phone stolen after being held at gunpoint

Congratulations.

You’ll be back soon!!! Silently of course

and now you know why eastern europe is in limbo and cannot get out

Strange I'm from a middle class suburb to and I only ever see the lights go off for 2, if it's a good day one whole hour. sucks to be you I guess

@@mykel9834 Bro I know people who live in areas that don't get load shedding at all. It varies

​@Frederick Von Abel I think maybe the grid is run at half capacity but it doesn't mean the load shedding is. Power maybe off in some area for 6 hours but they employ other methods to save the other 6 hours of energy

@@frederickvonabel6349 aren't they off the grid?

How can the power situation be that bad in your country?

The grass isn't always greener on the other side life has changed in both Botswana n SA since the puppet presidents took power

Zimbabwe such a disgrace looting of public funds is rampant

Not really, Botswana arguably had the benefit of being unnoticed so competent leaders could develop the country, Botswana didn't have the same brain drain that South Africa did. Also as a Nigerian it's not as if we can talk.

@@Dracon7601 People always ignore the brain drain aspect. I used to work in a small research clinic in a hospital in Australia, and we had two South African nurses and a Mozambican microbiologist with a PhD. Apparently, for every skilled worker that leaves South Africa, about 10 other people lose their jobs. It's hard to keep the lights on when all the engineers have emigrated.

@@Dracon7601 Actually, Botswana was not "unnoticed." What made them such a better country pre and post colonialism is that their culture and socio-political style was similar to what the British had i.e. more representative form of traditional government with Chiefs having to be elected and rule via merit and good will of the people. That ensured that stuff like meritocracy and even individual rights were upheld. Also, they were almost assimilated into apartheid/white-ruled Southern Africa, especially for their diamonds, until their leaders actually asked the British to take colonial rule of their country because the British were a far better option than apartheid Afrikaans (Look it up, I am not lying). And as I mentioned, their socio-cultural way of life was already similar to what the British had and when they started imposing stuff like democracy, capitalism, etc, Botswana adopted to all of them very well compared to many other African colonies. That is why till today, they remain one of the most politically and economically stable countries in Africa.

I am so sorry to hear that. If you had to leave, is there no way to ensure that the person / business who buys your business could retain the employees?

As a venezuelan, I can only advise to get out while you still can, you don't want to get trapped there when everything collapses

Sell and emigrate while you still can. It's only going to get worse.

It was better when the boers owned it

​@@Bruno_bm151 only better for the white population not the majority at all

@@Bruno_bm151 The ideal scenario is the Boers never coming into power and the country remaining under British control. There would still be a degree of discrimination but it would be that of the comparatively less harsh Rhodesian model. We might have even kept the non racial Cape franchise system.

@@frederickvonabel6349 It would be better that way than full on Apartheid but it would be even better if everyone was equal from the start, if we still had all the infrastructure then SA might have developed into a resource super power instead of stagnating like we are now

​@@LindaBobbert what

Most first worlders think we're lying or exaggerating.

Yeah not surprising. Murder and rape are so common here that people are super desensitised to it and we normally go 6 hours with no power in my area (a middle class suburb)

@@dannyarcher6370 one I remember is he told me his cousin with set on fire alive right in front of him. Put a tire around him and set him a light.

@@ColePhelps-cv2qh Oh, so he was black?

@@dannyarcher6370 yep and he was huge like 6 ft 6.

Lol

I am a South African who lives in South Africa, I can assure you that everything he said is very accurate. This country is shit

It is

Was much better 30 years ago.

You then realize you will never make it out of this hell

Isn't south Africa apart of the commonwealth? Surely it can't be that hard to move to WA or somewhere like that

​@@drake1896 It was but the nationalist party made them abolish the momarchy

@@goldensilver1937 that's a big rip, best of luck guys and stay safe

@@drake1896 fookin hell, keep those african apes in south africa with their beloved leader AND THEIR politicinas. No need for human waste to enter great britain

if you are referring to the publically owned entities like eskom, i would rather see them stay corrupt publically than become privately owned wealth extractors.

@@redacted9280 not under apartheird LOL

You should check California 😂😂😂

Yep, most of our problems can be traced back to this inequality.

Cause and effect

@@beano6992 Yes, the current governance of South Africa is the cause of many of it's problems. The effects impact the population as a whole.

Correction: only one majority black party has dominated South African government and politics, and it’s run under the principle of “Democratic Centralism”, which means that whoever leads the party has nearly unfettered power. It’s not about it being black, it’s not even about it’s ideology, which is centre-left in reality, but it’s about the lack of internal democracy that allowed craziness like Mbeki’s AIDS denial, and then Zumas corruption to go unchecked.

Anc have made things worse too

May I point you in the direction of Rhodesia, a warning to "native black majority political power"

There was a whole video here explaining why and then you are here asking a stupid question like this.

It's bc Eskom is in 300 billion rand debt, and instead of addressing that, they just keep growing the problem

but the whites are the evil ones arent they?

I believe it.

@@matthew1882 its true because of the long power outage their fridges stoped working

@@WIT_WOLF I'm South African so I know that pain.

@@matthew1882 our pain is constant and sharp

well our nature is amazing, its true.

Yes

No offense but the boers are why 90% of these problems exist.

Aaah, no wonder you people support Russia It all makes sense now

@@RazorsharpLT We don't support Russia...

@@Stoffies123 Not what i've seen from all the BRICS posting (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) Of fun note Brazil is the ONLY nation in the world that went from a developed economy into a developing one lmao

@@RazorsharpLT it's just political manouvering, that doesn't mean that it's popular

come on thats just over simplifying it now.

@@chloegrobler4275 Is it? Bantu South Africans act like they're the indigineous people of SA while the Dutch & British are nothing but colonist invaders. Why was the Transvaal almost completely depopulated when the Dutch arrived? The Zulu wars ended tens of thousands of lives, so if I'm oversimplifying then the dirt goes deeper on both sides. I'm not an apologist for the Dutch or British, but I hate seeing this ridiculous take from people who know nothing about SA but treat the Bantus like Tolkeins Elves or the Lakota.

People liked to think that the oppressed once free of oppression and given a chance to rule would do so with benevolence and good governance. That is not the case as the oppressed will easily corrupt and be overwhelmed with what they had not had access to before. Like a child being given unlimited access to the sweet shop they will stuff themselves with as many chocolates and sweets to the point they get sick. This is a metaphor for former freedom fighter African politicians that are overwhelmed by the wealth they have access to. And Africa as a whole is paying dearly for that as these politicians siphon off as much wealth as they can for themselves at the expense of each nation, Africa's development is being stunted.

The Cape government is not in charge of the waterworks, this is also nationally run, hence useless.

The Cape Town government is not the ANC. It’s DA they even got a lot of donations for the water shortage from Israel etc and they’re so corrupt but because they are white people let them

I agree with much you say. But local (or city) government isn't really in charge of building national infrastructure like dams or power plants. The City of Cape Town has done a commendable job to alleviate power, water and crime issues in its local area, not even mentioning the generally more in shape infrastructure like roads. While crime in Cape Town is still quite high, the police is much more trustworthy than the okes up country, where bribery is rampant.

Botswana population less than 3 million, SA population more than 60 million

I'm a South African who comes from a south asian family and I go to a predominantly south asian school and I've noticed how badly they treated the somali students. ZA has these sort of bubbles where different areas are occupied by different ethnicities. Sure its not like apartheid where you couldn't enter these areas but it still feels like there's an invisible wall. Sometimes it feels less like ZA' s a unified diverse country and more like different diversities existing next to each other.

@@imhappy7632 Thing is the societal/psychological barriers take a much, much longer time to break than the legal or physical ones.

​@@imhappy7632 don't forget there is xenophobia there. Hence why Somalis live with each other

@@imhappy7632 Hence why diversity carries little importance if it isn’t inclusive and equitable. Cape Qualified Franchise anyone?

Wow all of this has been going on since 2015??? I thought it was recent

I am glad you managed to escape. It is rough here at the moment. We project this picture of a happy place to the world and in reality it is much different. South Africa is a beautiful country but it is rotten inside with hatred and violence that seldom get seen or heard of beyond our borders. We really need to get the facts out there. We need the same urgency from world leaders to press our government to enact true reform as was directed at the apartheid government.