40 years ago South Africa had 1st world style infrastructure, the cheapest electricity in the world ane a good economy. Now the country suffers blackouts on a daily basis, unemployment at over 40% and the South Africa is now one of the most violent and dangerous places on the planet.
Wow, the Apartheid government built all that infrastructure, and when it was abolished, the power grid and everything else crumbled and South Africa became like the rest of Africa. How confusing.
Not all. 60% of the infrastructure was built by the new government. The grid extended to rural areas and townships. Many towns have been extended since.
Yes it is baffling. Likewise for the longest time I have been trying to figure out what caused the demise of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe after expelling the white government and farmers. I hope South Africa figures out what root cause is and fix it before genocide happens. 200k people were killed in Zimbabwe by the ruling government. Can’t believe this stuff happens in the world today.
For someone who has never been here you are embarrassing yourself on the internet, you aren't controlling our story anymore. Considering 90 percent of south African recourses are still owned by people who were enslaving this country I wouldn't be so quick to act foolishly.
This loadshedding problem also occurs in much of africa not just south africa. This problem is mainly as a result of firing competent staff and replacing them with those who aren't capable of working in the energy sector as well as corruption.
Don't be racists... it ws the worldbank that caused load shedding to continue... Zuma had stopped it. Do your homework. And SA is more developed now than it has ever been. Wake up!
@@Steiung well if international money organizations lowered South Africa’s credit rating , it’s because of the failed politics and corruption of the government since the ending of apartheid . When the government started taking white farmers land just because they are white , or when the former president builds lavished mansions while the world and his country is in economic crisis , and when the government can’t even provide electricity and water to his citizens , maybe foreign investors don’t see the country as reliable . It has nothing to do with racism , it’s facts .
Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal in the world 🌍 and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first.
ROFL! I love how this report is somehow trying to blame apartheid for this and not the socialist ANC's failed policies. Good one, Al Jazeera. I'm sure the "settler colonialist" state did this.
Also trying to make it an environmental issue--which it is not. If the grid were powered by solar or wind, then the ANC would find a way to wreck that, too.
Exactly 23 years ago the South Africans were laughing at us Kenyans when we were power rationing, the joke was that God said 'Let there be light except in Kenyan' Now the tide has turned and they are the ones without electricity
How on earth can you write a report without covering the corruption that goes on in the coal industry, and Eskom reaching as far as the attempted murder of Eskom's CEO. Aljazeera's reporting has fallen to a new and unexpected low!!
Proudly brought to SA by the anti-apartheid movement and its backers! Their slogans were: - Disinvestment - liberation before education... What a success Disinvestment
30 years ago the South African majority got an epic opportunity when they were handed a pretty decent country in the name of fairness, but then they couldn't stop stealing everything. Note to self: Never ever give up power to those who may not value what I have built.
@@tshepishochuene1280 So we agree that S.A. is becoming a basket-case. What the majority needs to do is stop stealing and take some responsibility. Why is this so hard? Rwanda is making things happen. Singapore did great. As for colonialism...that was inevitable. It happened throughout all of history. But it doesn't mean that we keep blaming the colonizers forever and ever.
we used to be so hopeful for South Africa after Mandela won his election as the first President of SA in 1994. then the ANC gave into corruption and governance was thrown out the window. its now doing its best to be Zimbabwe.
Nelson Mandela was a radical anti-white racist that started the gradual purge of South Africa's native White population. I even have a video catching him red handed supporting the killing of South Africa's White population exposing him as the sham he is.
Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first.😊
@@willem2256 how does that make the situation in SA any better? Precisely because of its developed and robust economy its record for poor governance is made even more dismal. The social decline in SA in the last 30 years can’t be overlooked. One’s heart breaks for all South Africans.
In Nigeria 🇳🇬 we can imagine how it feels like to not have electricity. I want you guys to also do some research on Nigeria electricity and maybe release a documentary on it, thanks.
I want you to do some research on the global climate risk index and sustainable energy as well as propaganda and see that a crisis is only created by elitism create inflation to keep the poor poor and the middle class in check by means of interest rates
Lack of electricity is caused by the same thing in Nigeria and South Africa. Except South Africa didn't lack electricity until it became more like Nigeria.
You fail to mention that the black townships don't pay for for electricity in general so that causes other areas to carry these people..... The bottom line is that the ANC, a majority black led party has failed the country.
@@MirriamSofe-yj9pq It's true. Soweto's debt is repeatedly written off at the expense of the rest of the country. Furthermore, there are illegal connections leading to unplanned burdons on the system, leading to failures, damage, etc.
It’s so disappointing to see an incomplete/ inaccurate report like this come from such a (usually) trustworthy source. The higher load shedding in black areas are due to non-payment for electricity, if the same non-payment happened in white areas the electricity will be disconnected and the user cut off completely. SA suffers from reverse racism, the world should be as outraged about it as the were as racism under apartheid.
This is not a raise issue, its a class issue. The top brass of the ANC Government and the top brass of Eskom are living in the old historical white areas.
SA was never a First World Country. Even during Apartheid. It's not a third world country even today. America is a first world country with a debt of $32trillion and rising. You call that first world 😂? BS 🤣
@@unamibokanedima151 Depends on what you consider 1st world however it was no doubt the most developed and industrialized nation in the Entire African continent
Most of Africa is not in Crisis. 😂 What a predictably American question! You don’t even know that they have whole cities and film industries! 😮😁 You’ll see soon enough.
@@alephmale3171t's like they've never heard of how successful Nigeria is being right now, I'm predicting that they're basically going to rule West Africa and be the China of the region 🤔
Don’t worry the US is on its way to joining you guys there. I’ve wanted an asset swap of citizens between the two countries that should strengthen both
Reporting is too gentle. Even with perfect planning this would not account for the corruption in the country. It’s only going to get worse as the old power stations crumble
This makes my country Belarus look like paradise, what the hell is going on in SA? Maybe we´re not rich like other western european countries but it´s relatively safe and we got no power shortages like this.
@Hecpa-- Belarus? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Belarus is not a country anymore, Belarus has been absorbed by Russia and has a puppet ruler. The orcs are trying to do the same to Ukraine.
Watching from cape town township south africa is very sad its because of corrupt government we need change of government our current government lacks leadership the anc government has been in power for almost 3 degades they have destroy our beautiful country
Not sure how it's energy racism when the people on townships generally don't pay for power in the first place. Also blaming the energy crisis on Apartheid when the black government has been looting the tax coffers for 30 years is a nonsense.
Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of coal and 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world 🌍. Before you say I am wrong google it first.
Apartheid was 30 years ago! This has nothing to do with race, or aparheid, it has to do with people being legally connected to the network. Councils that pay their electrical bills are less likely to get blackouts. Being law abiding is not a racial thing! Councils owe millions to eskom. Why is this guy not mentioning the debt that councils have (especially rural councils) due to the corrupt polititians? What would you do if you were a business that had some customers (councils) that pay and others not, you would cut the non paying customers' credit. It is up to the population to stand up against the corrupt goverment, and start electing people that will pay the council bills, not stick it in their pockrts or buy another range rover.
Dominican Republic has had this issue for years; it has been improving but we still have it. I checked and the countries that have this issue have something in common, PUBLIC GRID = Government controlled
I'm from Uruguay, in 2002 my country was a por country facing a severe crisis near to Bankruptucy, nowadays Uruguay's gdp per capita is a bit lower to Portugal, which it's a western european country
For accuracy: The summation is misleading. "Days without power" aren't actually days without power. They're days with power going off in some of the areas in rotating fashion for 2 hour sessions. (possibly again later in the day). Often, you can have continuous, uninterrupted power in your area during a day that is labelled as a "day without power". (i.e a day that had loadshedding somewhere)
@@aat528 I said the *summation* is misleading, i.e. number of *days* without power. I didn't say they didn't talk about it in the video. A) Did *YOU* even watch the video and, B) Did you even read my comment for meaning before wasting both our time with your comment?
@saeidbinhossain8530 South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong were all colonies once (whether by western powers or Japan) and they are very successful and high functioning. "Colonialism" is no excuse. Its the quality and average IQ of the population making up that (former) colony.
When you leave the natives to manage things, they mismanage everything. The economy is down, the currency is down, the power plants are down. Gradually South Africa is becoming a 3rd world country.
It's been 30 years since apartheid, at some point people are going to have to stop blaming it for SA problems. Drop this identity politics and work towards getting 100% power to all. I fear SA is in real danger and liberal answers are going to make them miss their chance to fix it before the system falls down.
It's laughable that they blame Apartheid for the electricity crisis when the apartheid government GAVE the ANC multiple mothballed power stations that could be de-mothballed when demand rose because the ANC connected a bunch of electricity thieves in Soweto. They literally bought them 10 years of added time for free. Power stations can be constructed in under 3 to 5 years, so with good management, this electricity crisis was totally unnecessary.
I get load shedding, and have done since that family feud episode, but how? What do the hospitals do? If someone is in a severe surgery or giving birth, both of which can last hours, you want tell me the power goes out 6 times!
@skyking6989 🤦🏽♀️so sad! If I told you the worst thing, the worst thing is electricity should cost next to nothing, or just enough to let people feel they're doing their part. Why? There is so much renewable energy out there. Solar, wind, hydro, etc SA could install a Solar farm big enough to power the whole country and export the rest. For night time, they could install wind and hydro, sorted. It may cost a bit, but everything does at first.
@sandrajones8245 Can't make power when the sun don't shine or wind don't blow. Renewable energy is still years and years away. It just can't compete with coal, natural gas and/or nuclear.
@sandrajones8245 Energy always costs. There is no way to store renewable energy, thus no way it can be exported! There is no infrastructure to support renewable energy and no money, not even "a bit" to pay for that infrastructure. Corruption and three decades of an inept government has doomed SA.
@markcynic808 OK energy always costing is true, although SA could have jumped on this renewable energy craze a while back and significantly saved on costs. There is definitely a way store renewable energy, how do you think EV vehicles do it? Rechargeable batteries. Tesla has gone one step further, they've set up a solar plant which takes energy from the sun, converts it into electric energy, stores it in Rechargeable batteries and distributes where its necessary. Now you're talking, no infrastructure yes, but humans should have realised this long ago, everything needs fixing, renewing, everything dies, so if SA spent the little money had on repair and upkeep of said infrastructure, I'm sure load shedding would be diminished from 6 times a day to 6 times a year, with it being a simple replacement of a shoddy instrument. Again you've touched on the cause, corruption. Stealing from your family is terrible! And leads to things like this.
You will have the equity you crave when you're all equally poor! Obsession with redistribution and demonization of privatization in favour of corrupt public sector is why South Africa is in this situation in the first place
@@mchlle94 in the last 20 years Europe has grown by 6%. America gas grown by 82% in that time. By 2050 the gap will be insane. Like comparing Malaysia to Japan. Europe is absolutely not doing fine
What on Earth are your stats? The US props up its economy through militarism and exploitation. It bombs and invades any country that doesn't adopt the Dollar. It offshores production of everything to China, where it pays children pennies an hour. That's "free market" capitalism. @@Tribuneoftheplebs
What she doesn't add in her speech is build in the 60 (and never maintained) and 2 power stations build (by the popular government) and not on full capacity lady please give the whole story and not only the parts that suits you
1/2 the people had electricity because they paid for it, 1/2 didn't because they couldn't pay for it. Fast forward, 1/2 of the people pay for it and 1/2 get it for free (or nearly free).
Energy racism by the ANC against the black community? what are you talking about ? load shedding has nothing too do with aphartaid but with a financial deficit of the current government to be able too pay for oil imports and the downgrades that they brought on their country
4:02 is it still racist when the politicians are also black? No it is a class based prejudice. Poor people are being denied power. Rich people (who might be white or black although probably white) are receiving preferential access to power. The same is probably true of businesses and manufacturers. Is this racism when it is being used by black politicians and officials or is it simply corruption? An unfortunately equal opportunity endeavor.
Proof South Africa does not need Loadshedding in the first place:Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first before convincing me I am wrong.
Correct, former president Mandela & Mbeki failed to build a new power station & they were warned about this back in the 90's.Zuma tried but the cost of the new power station escalated due to tender corruption, the design is faulty & isn't functioning to full capacity.
If all the coal burning steam-electric generating units in South Africa had an availability of 85% (normal western standards), there would be no load shedding. Instead, corruption and affirmative action have rotted out the competence level of Eskom, and Eskom stations have an availability of 50% and falling. Hence load shedding.
@@mankentsileqheku1623no loadshedding , Belgian in 1983 and we have over 10 decommissioned poweplants , half of them can be brought online , but they can’t because of minimum emissions
How can you blame neoliberalism if the problem is a state owned company? And also because south Africa is one of the lesser business friendly countries...
Wars are expensive activities, and when a government is economically isolated, the expense of maintaining an orc war machine, infested with corruption, becomes harmful. Wars take years of study, planning and in many cases the cost of making them prevents them from happening. Even before the war against Ukraine, the Russian economy was not something flashy. They had a GDP similar to that of Brazil and frankly, our economy is tragic with inflation and public deficits that make our purchasing power, generation of goods and services and per capita income always below the ideal. A war would ruin our economy if everyone in the world turned their backs on Brazil for invading Suriname or Uruguay, for petty and lying reasons like Pootin does with Ukraine. It's no surprise that ruZZia is deservedly going to hell.
@@Eechuta Given that you identified with the character of my post, _of course_ you would say that! You’ll also say that whenever white people have done anything wrong in history, it was actually *the Jews* that made them do it. Whites are ontologically faultless to you, being a racist.
@@jidec3165Well with the way blacks behave its warranted, literally saw a video on TikTok of a black man stealing a municipal water meter from someones property because its made of copper.
The older I get, the more I realize that "racists" are just people who are able to notice patterns. Pattern recognition is a sign of a high IQ and is something which should be celebrated rather than derided.
@@jidec3165depends on what you deem is a racist right? Seems as if anybody who disagrees with you is a racist right? Doesn't say much for your powers of deduction or reasoning.
Did you know South Africa is the 1st biggest coal producer in Africa and 90% of Africas coal comes from South Africa. If you refuse to believe me then Google it.
The ANC has established a new economic paradigm, its called decolonialization. There were no power in all of Africa before Europeans arrived -- by decolonizing not only Eskom but also SA rail (which has been stripped) the ANC is successfully decolonizing.
Clickbait. Load shedding yes, but it’s not for the whole day, only for a few hours a day and advanced notice is given. This makes it seem like it’s been out for 180 days.
They Don’t want to explain why South, Central and North America have so many of the African Diaspora living well in those countries and Why They Don’t Have The Same?? Could they be ashamed of themselves for mass castration from the millions that perished from that procedure where they used rusty blade’s.
Maybe if the politicians used the tax money to develop and update the power supplies and the country in general, instead of eating foie gras, things wouldn't be so bad? I'm not from South Africa, so what would I know, but I imagine the corruption to be quite severe at this point. And absolutely, I understand the transition after the apartheid ended must've been very hard to adjust to, but instead of chasing the white population away, embracing the knowledge which they possessed would be a wiser move to educate the future generations. But still, I understand. You wouldn't make friends with the devil immediately.
No wonder FOM completely went silence about Kyalami GP despite the push of fans, guess no one wanted to talk about how impossible it is for them to hold a gp in their current state.
@@djw5415 That track is beautiful, but sadly South Africa in general is simply too unstable as a country, and it's not like they have infinite cash like the Middle East to not care about failing an investment. It's all too unfortunate.
incompetent leadership and corruption are basically two main culprits of South Africa's current downturn, and those are two things that are hard to eradicate.
Honestly that might end with another chernobyl. Corruption within not just the gov but the workforce would have to be eradicated before even thinking about anything nuclear... Watched a short doc a few weeks ago about how so many facilities keep requiring service and spare parts, it was cause some workers sabotages the equipment for a quick buck. They get payed by the repair companies. So no to nuclear in SA for atleast a decade or two
With a incompetent black majority government, things arent going to get better, as we can see since 1994. This all can be fixed by starting to educate the local population on how democracy really works to ensure the people know that we can and must change ruling party when they arent serving our best interests, and then electing a competent government that isnt driven by race issues but rather by improving the country for all, while being held accountable for every cent spent, and mistake made.
Under no apartheid, my family dont get jobs must give up more than half of their business, and are called racists and settlers so what is the difference?
Progressivism and economic prosperity are mutually exclusive concepts! You have one at the detriment of the other I’m afraid there is no real world case anywhere on earth that proves otherwise. Also to my mind it makes total sense to cut off certain townships first because much of the electricity supply in these areas are illegally connected and most do not pay for the electricity they receive. So it’s a statistical reason. It’s fair on this basis alone understand that it’s not fair on those that do pay of course.
That depends entirely on how you define the two concepts. Economic prosperity can be taken to mean economic growth or maximal welfare/quality of life in the nation and the general definition tends to be the latter which is why virtually every country has welfare systems and wealth transfers in place. Progressivism on the other hand depends entirely on the specifics. Greater equality of opportunity and access to realizing own capacity are stricktly beneficial for both economic growth and welfare where as quota enforcing will harm growth atleast in the short run. Then there are other progressive ideals like legalizing homosexuality and so on which have nothing to do with the economy.
@@shgalagalaa This is a silly argument as you cannot have effective welfare systems or wealth transfers without economic growth in the first place especially in nations that have steady or increasing populations like in Africa. So your point is actually moot! I find all types of progressivism morally inept as well completely ineffective. In layman's terms a nation cannot afford to be progressive at all in any sense of the word if it does not grow economically. Growth means more to go around shrinkage which is what is happening in South Africa in real terms means less to go around. You replace competent white people just because they are white and replace them with another person that isnt as competent because they have another skin colour stifles growth because you are baking inefficiency into the bread!
Time for SA to take responsibility for its own actions. SA is now a failed state.
always was
@@bigmoz9900nah. It was a force back in the day. But we all know why.
40 years ago South Africa had 1st world style infrastructure, the cheapest electricity in the world ane a good economy. Now the country suffers blackouts on a daily basis, unemployment at over 40% and the South Africa is now one of the most violent and dangerous places on the planet.
@@CountryGalBunemployment is 65%
@@GlenroseMakgorogo Ouch.....I read 40% the other day but I'll take your word for it. That's horrific.
Wow, the Apartheid government built all that infrastructure, and when it was abolished, the power grid and everything else crumbled and South Africa became like the rest of Africa. How confusing.
Par for the course my dear.
South Africans thought running a country would be a walk in the park.
Not all. 60% of the infrastructure was built by the new government. The grid extended to rural areas and townships. Many towns have been extended since.
Yes it is baffling. Likewise for the longest time I have been trying to figure out what caused the demise of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe after expelling the white government and farmers. I hope South Africa figures out what root cause is and fix it before genocide happens. 200k people were killed in Zimbabwe by the ruling government. Can’t believe this stuff happens in the world today.
Calling townships "Black working class" is quite misleading, considering majority of people there are unemployed.
And its getting worse
Unemployed and mostly untrainable ....
For someone who has never been here you are embarrassing yourself on the internet, you aren't controlling our story anymore. Considering 90 percent of south African recourses are still owned by people who were enslaving this country I wouldn't be so quick to act foolishly.
nice man u get what u vote for or
And 55000+ are now multimillionaires. Fact.
And the majority will re-elect the ANC. Forests voting for axes, because they’re partially wood too.
Damn, that's deep.
Or they vote for more extreme groups lol.
Stealing this
This loadshedding problem also occurs in much of africa not just south africa. This problem is mainly as a result of firing competent staff and replacing them with those who aren't capable of working in the energy sector as well as corruption.
The downside of state-run companies.
But the biggest reason is Britain and America.
@@رومانا377 not laughable at all.
@@GlenroseMakgorogo it's not. Our biggest reason is ourselves.
Affirmative action hires?
We have those too
Not the best people for the job
The right colour people
It’s so sad to see a once developed , beacon of hope in the African continent , back peddle and go dark 😢
@human8454 the problem is also racist Black south africans making SA a reverse apartheid state by the targeting the nation's minorities.
Don't be racists... it ws the worldbank that caused load shedding to continue... Zuma had stopped it. Do your homework.
And SA is more developed now than it has ever been. Wake up!
@@Steiung well if international money organizations lowered South Africa’s credit rating , it’s because of the failed politics and corruption of the government since the ending of apartheid . When the government started taking white farmers land just because they are white , or when the former president builds lavished mansions while the world and his country is in economic crisis , and when the government can’t even provide electricity and water to his citizens , maybe foreign investors don’t see the country as reliable . It has nothing to do with racism , it’s facts .
Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal in the world 🌍 and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first.
@@willem2256 if that’s true , it just makes the situation even sadder so I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make
ROFL! I love how this report is somehow trying to blame apartheid for this and not the socialist ANC's failed policies. Good one, Al Jazeera. I'm sure the "settler colonialist" state did this.
Also trying to make it an environmental issue--which it is not. If the grid were powered by solar or wind, then the ANC would find a way to wreck that, too.
Al Jazeera is CNN fake liberal news and people are laughing at their terrible Activists disguised as journalists😆🙏
Exactly 23 years ago the South Africans were laughing at us Kenyans when we were power rationing, the joke was that God said 'Let there be light except in Kenyan' Now the tide has turned and they are the ones without electricity
Careful, an eye for an eye leaves us all in the dark. Keep a candle in the window for our SA friends!
be careful as tides turn
@@icraftcrafts8685 true
@@theprecipiceofreason I agree
South Africans have a misplaced sense of superiority over other African countries
It's really sad to see the state that South Africa is in. You should see the condition of our roads..
Fokken diep gatte
full of deep potholes ay
and a metaphor of the road ahead I wonder XD
How on earth can you write a report without covering the corruption that goes on in the coal industry, and Eskom reaching as far as the attempted murder of Eskom's CEO. Aljazeera's reporting has fallen to a new and unexpected low!!
And the corruption in the government and political class.
Proudly brought to SA by the anti-apartheid movement and its backers!
Their slogans were:
- Disinvestment
- liberation before education...
What a success
Disinvestment
Yep, trying to destroy us economically.
I heard Bono is coming to live in SA.
What about "KILL THE BOER?"
30 years ago the South African majority got an epic opportunity when they were handed a pretty decent country in the name of fairness, but then they couldn't stop stealing everything. Note to self: Never ever give up power to those who may not value what I have built.
Build in Europe
@@tshepishochuene1280 The infrastructure in South Africa didn't exist before the Europeans came. But you already know this.
@@tshepishochuene1280 Buddy, why is S.A. becoming a basket-case? Is it the Europeans fault...still after 30 years????
@@scottmac-cheeserae4531 I love how your kind would say anything to justify colonialism
@@tshepishochuene1280 So we agree that S.A. is becoming a basket-case. What the majority needs to do is stop stealing and take some responsibility. Why is this so hard? Rwanda is making things happen. Singapore did great.
As for colonialism...that was inevitable. It happened throughout all of history. But it doesn't mean that we keep blaming the colonizers forever and ever.
we used to be so hopeful for South Africa after Mandela won his election as the first President of SA in 1994.
then the ANC gave into corruption and governance was thrown out the window. its now doing its best to be Zimbabwe.
Nelson Mandela was a radical anti-white racist that started the gradual purge of South Africa's native White population. I even have a video catching him red handed supporting the killing of South Africa's White population exposing him as the sham he is.
Let’s face it, South Africa was better governed under white rule.
Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first.😊
@@willem2256 how does that make the situation in SA any better?
Precisely because of its developed and robust economy its record for poor governance is made even more dismal. The social decline in SA in the last 30 years can’t be overlooked. One’s heart breaks for all South Africans.
@@davidlang1125 The ANC government can end Loadshedding by banning exports of coal and electricity.
Corruption at its finest
In Nigeria 🇳🇬 we can imagine how it feels like to not have electricity. I want you guys to also do some research on Nigeria electricity and maybe release a documentary on it, thanks.
I want you to do some research on the global climate risk index and sustainable energy as well as propaganda and see that a crisis is only created by elitism create inflation to keep the poor poor and the middle class in check by means of interest rates
Use black power🤣🤣🤣
@@franckcolomb5579 incompatible socket but worth trying i guess 😁
Lack of electricity is caused by the same thing in Nigeria and South Africa. Except South Africa didn't lack electricity until it became more like Nigeria.
@@franckcolomb5579Lol only a guy named colomb could find racist jokes funny 😔.
You fail to mention that the black townships don't pay for for electricity in general so that causes other areas to carry these people.....
The bottom line is that the ANC, a majority black led party has failed the country.
Tell the truth and put stats of all those who pay and non payers including Business in towns unless you protecting you're buddies too!
@@MirriamSofe-yj9pq It's true. Soweto's debt is repeatedly written off at the expense of the rest of the country. Furthermore, there are illegal connections leading to unplanned burdons on the system, leading to failures, damage, etc.
@@jvanvuuren846160% of electricity in Soweto is stolen. That's according to Eskom itself.
@@gregorymalchuk272and also according to eskom loadshedding began in 1983
Have you been here? How many homes in townships have you ever been to and have lunch there? Don't embarrass yourself, you are not an expert.
It’s so disappointing to see an incomplete/ inaccurate report like this come from such a (usually) trustworthy source.
The higher load shedding in black areas are due to non-payment for electricity, if the same non-payment happened in white areas the electricity will be disconnected and the user cut off completely.
SA suffers from reverse racism, the world should be as outraged about it as the were as racism under apartheid.
ROFL "suffers"
This is not a raise issue, its a class issue. The top brass of the ANC Government and the top brass of Eskom are living in the old historical white areas.
Name a high-functioning black country with no White minority propping it up in terms of infrastructure and big business etc. NAME ONE
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Fokol countries like that
It is both.
it is both. do you think black people are immune from colorism?
@@nottheone582 "colorism" hasn't prevented dark skinned Indians from being literally the highest average earning ethnic group in the USA. Spare us....
South Africa turned from a first world country to a third world country within a decade
it was never first world.
SA was never a First World Country. Even during Apartheid. It's not a third world country even today. America is a first world country with a debt of $32trillion and rising. You call that first world 😂? BS 🤣
Well you had first world cities and infrastructure that you did not develop further. 1st world compared to Africa definitely
@@unamibokanedima151 Depends on what you consider 1st world however it was no doubt the most developed and industrialized nation in the Entire African continent
It still is the most industrialized, doesnt make it first world though.
How on earth the nation allow a 48 million dollars damage per day?
🇿🇦💥The state of disaster is in the government !👿
Cyril Ramaphosa IS a disaster!
Why is it so hard for them to admit to blatant corruption?
then they would have to take some kind of action, I guess
Has anyplace in Africa ever not been in crisis?
Blek excellence does wonders
Most of Africa is not in Crisis. 😂 What a predictably American question! You don’t even know that they have whole cities and film industries! 😮😁 You’ll see soon enough.
@@alephmale3171 Yup, you'll see.. in another 3 or 4 thousand years Africa will be the sh1t.
Botswana
@@alephmale3171t's like they've never heard of how successful Nigeria is being right now, I'm predicting that they're basically going to rule West Africa and be the China of the region 🤔
SA used to be a bicon of Africa can't believe this is happening 😔😔, It's so sad.
Beacon*
😂😂😂
Bc when you let black people in power and in important places you get this
The crowd cheering Ramaphosa when he declared a National State Disaster like it was a good thing...
Blind leading blind
Don’t worry the US is on its way to joining you guys there. I’ve wanted an asset swap of citizens between the two countries that should strengthen both
Reporting is too gentle. Even with perfect planning this would not account for the corruption in the country. It’s only going to get worse as the old power stations crumble
This makes my country Belarus look like paradise, what the hell is going on in SA?
Maybe we´re not rich like other western european countries but it´s relatively safe and we got no power shortages like this.
Belarus = Russian vassal state.
@Hecpa-- Belarus? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Belarus is not a country anymore, Belarus has been absorbed by Russia and has a puppet ruler. The orcs are trying to do the same to Ukraine.
привет из Харькова, правда тут раз в неделю выключают на пару часов
Watching from cape town township south africa is very sad its because of corrupt government we need change of government our current government lacks leadership the anc government has been in power for almost 3 degades they have destroy our beautiful country
Well u all wanted one man one vote… enjoy it now. Ask your parents how good Apartheid was, power, water, security, jobs and strong rand and now?
few years back NEPAL had 14hour load shedding in 1 day..advise south Africa to buy inverter,generator..we faced it like that...THANKING YOU
Thanks as opposed to the powers of doom who looks for all negativity without any solutions EVER!
As a Pakistani i can confirm we have 3 -2hours loadshedding a day in my city
Every 3rd world country is like that. If u had stayed colonized u would now live in luxury like us.
@@franckcolomb5579no, we dont have that in kenya
@@cry13 go to the north, near somalia and let me know what u see.
@@franckcolomb5579he can’t control whether his country got colonized
Not sure how it's energy racism when the people on townships generally don't pay for power in the first place. Also blaming the energy crisis on Apartheid when the black government has been looting the tax coffers for 30 years is a nonsense.
Exactly right… the country has been in black hands for 3 decades and things have gone to hell…. They pillage their own people.
from a developed to an undeveloped country we know why
Blek excellence ?
The result of believing the climate alarmists.
it was never a developed country only if you count the rich white minority
Money meant for the country and building the infrastructure being pocketed.
@@xtr.7662 It was developed. Look at the currency exchange rates during apartheid, the achievements in the medical field et al
In 50 years since Africas Independence they've been given $568 billion of foreign aid .How is Africa still so underdeveloped?
How much do you want to bet that 40% of that went into the pockets of corrupt politicians, organized crime or warlords?
Check they iq
Im sure very little of that money goes into the country and if it does, its just to keep the military happy.
even now there is no electricity in my area😢SA
Sorry
Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of coal and 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world 🌍. Before you say I am wrong google it first.
In your next election I hope you remember this! And tell all your friends to do the same!
Apartheid was 30 years ago! This has nothing to do with race, or aparheid, it has to do with people being legally connected to the network. Councils that pay their electrical bills are less likely to get blackouts. Being law abiding is not a racial thing! Councils owe millions to eskom. Why is this guy not mentioning the debt that councils have (especially rural councils) due to the corrupt polititians? What would you do if you were a business that had some customers (councils) that pay and others not, you would cut the non paying customers' credit. It is up to the population to stand up against the corrupt goverment, and start electing people that will pay the council bills, not stick it in their pockrts or buy another range rover.
Today no water and no electricity for 10 hours in a rich area.. but it’s not all bad lots of diversity at Eskom and rand water..
They told America that they don't need our money or policies...So South Africa deal with it 😎✌️... Don't ask us Americans for anything..
South Africa told The United States to get out of their Country and stay out of their affairs so let them deal with their own problems ✌️😎🔥
اللَّهُمَّ يَا بَارِئَ البَرِيَّاتِ ، وَغَافِرَ الخَـطِيَّاتِ ، وَعَالِمَ الخَفِيَّاتِ ، المُطَّلِعُ عَلَى الضَّمَائِرِ وَالنِّيَّاتِ ، يَا مَنْ أَحَاطَ بِكُلِّ شَيءٍ عِلْماً ، وَوَسِعَ كُلّ شَيْءٍ رَحْمَةً ، وَقَهَرَ كُلّ مَخْلُوقٍ عِزَّةً وَحُكْماً ، اغْفِرْ لِي ذُنُوبِي ، وَاسْتُرْ عُيُوبِيَ ، وَتَجَاوَزْ عَنْ سَيِّئَاتِيَ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ
Dominican Republic has had this issue for years; it has been improving but we still have it. I checked and the countries that have this issue have something in common, PUBLIC GRID = Government controlled
Huh... I didn't know that.
Exactly!!!
What you mean is no competition.
Corruption is the issue, look at nordic countries, all of it built by the state. Stop thinking that privatising everything will fix the issue.
Power grids are state controlled in most Western countries, and they work just fine. Please do your research.
I'm from Uruguay, in 2002 my country was a por country facing a severe crisis near to Bankruptucy, nowadays Uruguay's gdp per capita is a bit lower to Portugal, which it's a western european country
Portugal is 26.000 usd ugandas is 1163 usd. You need to do better.
@@nonox3903he said Uruguay not Uganda
"Betrayal Of The PROMISE.What A Disappointment From The 'New ELITES'"
For accuracy: The summation is misleading.
"Days without power" aren't actually days without power.
They're days with power going off in some of the areas in rotating fashion for 2 hour sessions. (possibly again later in the day).
Often, you can have continuous, uninterrupted power in your area during a day that is labelled as a "day without power". (i.e a day that had loadshedding somewhere)
They literally explained what that means in the video with better explanation than yours. Did you even watch it lmaoo
@@aat528 I said the *summation* is misleading, i.e. number of *days* without power.
I didn't say they didn't talk about it in the video.
A) Did *YOU* even watch the video and,
B) Did you even read my comment for meaning before wasting both our time with your comment?
@@agrid2608 brilliant reply
How does this help?
Um…,we have 8 hrs a day of no power,this is every day
Amazing, apartheid explains load-shedding, but corruption doesn’t get mentioned....
Arab and African speedrun blaming the west while doing nothing improve their country be like :
thank god im asian
Oh sure, of course the problems caused by centuries of colonization will be fixed in just a few decades.
@saeidbinhossain8530 South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong were all colonies once (whether by western powers or Japan) and they are very successful and high functioning. "Colonialism" is no excuse. Its the quality and average IQ of the population making up that (former) colony.
@@hubertcumberdale2651 Thank you, im from a black country and I want all my people to hear your word.
@@dgd865 Don't lie you aren't black
G i wonder why townships have more power cuts… Maybe because they are using illegal connections
Townships don't have illegal connections since they are part of the grid. Do you mean the squatter camps (informal settlements)?
that is a narrow minded opinion
When you leave the natives to manage things, they mismanage everything. The economy is down, the currency is down, the power plants are down. Gradually South Africa is becoming a 3rd world country.
Haven't they always been? Resources are more important than people
Load Shedding? lol you mean blackout. Were there blackouts prior to ANC?
It's been 30 years since apartheid, at some point people are going to have to stop blaming it for SA problems. Drop this identity politics and work towards getting 100% power to all.
I fear SA is in real danger and liberal answers are going to make them miss their chance to fix it before the system falls down.
It's laughable that they blame Apartheid for the electricity crisis when the apartheid government GAVE the ANC multiple mothballed power stations that could be de-mothballed when demand rose because the ANC connected a bunch of electricity thieves in Soweto. They literally bought them 10 years of added time for free. Power stations can be constructed in under 3 to 5 years, so with good management, this electricity crisis was totally unnecessary.
And South Africa continues importing a huge number of Chinese made electric vehicles. 😅😅😅 Irony.
I get load shedding, and have done since that family feud episode, but how? What do the hospitals do? If someone is in a severe surgery or giving birth, both of which can last hours, you want tell me the power goes out 6 times!
They have generators just for that reason
@skyking6989 🤦🏽♀️so sad! If I told you the worst thing, the worst thing is electricity should cost next to nothing, or just enough to let people feel they're doing their part. Why? There is so much renewable energy out there. Solar, wind, hydro, etc SA could install a Solar farm big enough to power the whole country and export the rest. For night time, they could install wind and hydro, sorted. It may cost a bit, but everything does at first.
@sandrajones8245 Can't make power when the sun don't shine or wind don't blow. Renewable energy is still years and years away. It just can't compete with coal, natural gas and/or nuclear.
@sandrajones8245
Energy always costs. There is no way to store renewable energy, thus no way it can be exported!
There is no infrastructure to support renewable energy and no money, not even "a bit" to pay for that infrastructure.
Corruption and three decades of an inept government has doomed SA.
@markcynic808 OK energy always costing is true, although SA could have jumped on this renewable energy craze a while back and significantly saved on costs. There is definitely a way store renewable energy, how do you think EV vehicles do it? Rechargeable batteries. Tesla has gone one step further, they've set up a solar plant which takes energy from the sun, converts it into electric energy, stores it in Rechargeable batteries and distributes where its necessary.
Now you're talking, no infrastructure yes, but humans should have realised this long ago, everything needs fixing, renewing, everything dies, so if SA spent the little money had on repair and upkeep of said infrastructure, I'm sure load shedding would be diminished from 6 times a day to 6 times a year, with it being a simple replacement of a shoddy instrument.
Again you've touched on the cause, corruption. Stealing from your family is terrible! And leads to things like this.
You focused too much on historic racism and failed to mention the electricity theft that is happening in the townships.
You will have the equity you crave when you're all equally poor! Obsession with redistribution and demonization of privatization in favour of corrupt public sector is why South Africa is in this situation in the first place
The problem is the corruption, not the public sector. Europe has a big public sector that works well.
@@mchlle94 in the last 20 years Europe has grown by 6%. America gas grown by 82% in that time. By 2050 the gap will be insane. Like comparing Malaysia to Japan. Europe is absolutely not doing fine
What on Earth are your stats?
The US props up its economy through militarism and exploitation. It bombs and invades any country that doesn't adopt the Dollar. It offshores production of everything to China, where it pays children pennies an hour. That's "free market" capitalism. @@Tribuneoftheplebs
I bet every developing country faces energy poverty and racism mostly rich areas get better power supply then poor... It sill happens in India as well
What she doesn't add in her speech is build in the 60 (and never maintained) and 2 power stations build (by the popular government) and not on full capacity lady please give the whole story and not only the parts that suits you
Agreed. Making this out to be an environmental issue and not a corruption issue is disingenuous.
@@gutsfinky It's Al Jazeera buddy they're biased as hell.
@@qwertyca how so?
Why is Africa so incompetent? What say you Rainbow Nation?
Being a rainbow nation is not synonymous with being good, you can be a rainbow and have all colors being equally miserable.
When you're the World 🌎 🏧 Banking Committee and Fund Governments all over the globe? Then you can create a damn crisis!!!!
This is literally the ANC's fault
you're disconnected from reality. this mess is wholly the result of the ANC's corruption and incompetence.
The world bank doesn't cause boiler tubes in Eskom power stations to rupture.
1/2 the people had electricity because they paid for it, 1/2 didn't because they couldn't pay for it. Fast forward, 1/2 of the people pay for it and 1/2 get it for free (or nearly free).
*South Africans get loadshedding for 2 hours a day:* *collapses
Zimbabweans: _hold my diesel generator_ 💀
Energy racism by the ANC against the black community? what are you talking about ? load shedding has nothing too do with aphartaid but with a financial deficit of the current government to be able too pay for oil imports and the downgrades that they brought on their country
Some of my South African friends says that the country was in better shape during apartheid then now. Who to blame?
I swear I just watched a street fighter 6 tournament that was started to be in south Africa
What is going on? Water 💦now electricity?
The legacy of apartheid will not be easily overturned
@@PraisethesunsonThe legacy of black african Greed and lack of empathy for Their Own ... the World is Watching Your Hipocracy.
@@Praisethesunsonwhat a low iq dark skinned answer to this problem lol. How predictable.
Would it be wrong to say that black South Africans did better under apartheid? No it would not.
How is a state run corporation neoliberal?? If it was neoliberal the state run corp would hsve been privatized !
This channel is full of it.
4:02 is it still racist when the politicians are also black? No it is a class based prejudice. Poor people are being denied power. Rich people (who might be white or black although probably white) are receiving preferential access to power. The same is probably true of businesses and manufacturers. Is this racism when it is being used by black politicians and officials or is it simply corruption? An unfortunately equal opportunity endeavor.
Proof South Africa does not need Loadshedding in the first place:Did you know South Africa is the 5th biggest exporter of Coal and the 24th biggest exporter of electricity in the world. Before you say I am wrong google it first before convincing me I am wrong.
Not wrong but the blacks in this country are the only cause for all the shit happening now..
So, the infastructure isn't able to provide enough energy for everyone.
Am I wrong?
Correct, former president Mandela & Mbeki failed to build a new power station & they were warned about this back in the 90's.Zuma tried but the cost of the new power station escalated due to tender corruption, the design is faulty & isn't functioning to full capacity.
Also the nuclear power station was opposed.
If all the coal burning steam-electric generating units in South Africa had an availability of 85% (normal western standards), there would be no load shedding. Instead, corruption and affirmative action have rotted out the competence level of Eskom, and Eskom stations have an availability of 50% and falling. Hence load shedding.
@@mankentsileqheku1623no loadshedding , Belgian in 1983 and we have over 10 decommissioned poweplants , half of them can be brought online , but they can’t because of minimum emissions
They also happen to disagree with a certain apartheid state.
How can you blame neoliberalism if the problem is a state owned company? And also because south Africa is one of the lesser business friendly countries...
This is why they work so hard on accusing Israel. Need some kind of distractions from home problem
They should move away from coal and switch to hydro-electric power generation like we do in other parts of Africa and the world!
When you come to know who works there you'll have your answer
Damn this is crazy. I also recently saw that the Russian ruble was crashing. 1 US penny = the same as 1 Russian ruble right now.
Wars are expensive activities, and when a government is economically isolated, the expense of maintaining an orc war machine, infested with corruption, becomes harmful. Wars take years of study, planning and in many cases the cost of making them prevents them from happening. Even before the war against Ukraine, the Russian economy was not something flashy. They had a GDP similar to that of Brazil and frankly, our economy is tragic with inflation and public deficits that make our purchasing power, generation of goods and services and per capita income always below the ideal. A war would ruin our economy if everyone in the world turned their backs on Brazil for invading Suriname or Uruguay, for petty and lying reasons like Pootin does with Ukraine. It's no surprise that ruZZia is deservedly going to hell.
You don't have any idea how currencies work lmao
@everypitchcounts4875---- And a U.S. penny is worth so little nobody even bothers to pick one up off the floor.
Opening generation to IPP would enable South Africa to escape Eskimo’s monopoly
There are no Eskimos in south Africa.
Here come the racists who won’t even watch the video!
@@Eechuta Given that you identified with the character of my post, _of course_ you would say that! You’ll also say that whenever white people have done anything wrong in history, it was actually *the Jews* that made them do it.
Whites are ontologically faultless to you, being a racist.
Lots of them in the comments 😂
@@jidec3165Well with the way blacks behave its warranted, literally saw a video on TikTok of a black man stealing a municipal water meter from someones property because its made of copper.
The older I get, the more I realize that "racists" are just people who are able to notice patterns. Pattern recognition is a sign of a high IQ and is something which should be celebrated rather than derided.
@@jidec3165depends on what you deem is a racist right? Seems as if anybody who disagrees with you is a racist right? Doesn't say much for your powers of deduction or reasoning.
Did you know South Africa is the 1st biggest coal producer in Africa and 90% of Africas coal comes from South Africa. If you refuse to believe me then Google it.
This video addresses everything except why SA has loadshedding
Imagine running a grocery business without refrigeration.
The ANC has established a new economic paradigm, its called decolonialization. There were no power in all of Africa before Europeans arrived -- by decolonizing not only Eskom but also SA rail (which has been stripped) the ANC is successfully decolonizing.
Clickbait. Load shedding yes, but it’s not for the whole day, only for a few hours a day and advanced notice is given. This makes it seem like it’s been out for 180 days.
We used to have load shedding incidents here. Until the local government built a new power station after numerous complaints.
Race and iq is real.
So when will AJ highlight racism in the oil countries?
They Don’t want to explain why South, Central and North America have so many of the African Diaspora living well in those countries and Why They Don’t Have The Same?? Could they be ashamed of themselves for mass castration from the millions that perished from that procedure where they used rusty blade’s.
South Africa has been in crisis for 30 years - electricity / power issues are just the start.
Maybe if the politicians used the tax money to develop and update the power supplies and the country in general, instead of eating foie gras, things wouldn't be so bad? I'm not from South Africa, so what would I know, but I imagine the corruption to be quite severe at this point. And absolutely, I understand the transition after the apartheid ended must've been very hard to adjust to, but instead of chasing the white population away, embracing the knowledge which they possessed would be a wiser move to educate the future generations. But still, I understand. You wouldn't make friends with the devil immediately.
Privatizing would be the best option. The more socialized the country has become, the worse it's getting. Just look at Venezuela
This is absolute bull! Please review the racial facts... Loadshedding has no preference to race....
It does have preferences to class.
No wonder FOM completely went silence about Kyalami GP despite the push of fans, guess no one wanted to talk about how impossible it is for them to hold a gp in their current state.
Yah and to update the track to modern standards for F1 would cost too much. I miss living near that track.
@@djw5415 That track is beautiful, but sadly South Africa in general is simply too unstable as a country, and it's not like they have infinite cash like the Middle East to not care about failing an investment.
It's all too unfortunate.
incompetent leadership and corruption are basically two main culprits of South Africa's current downturn, and those are two things that are hard to eradicate.
Misinformation in video image tile.. Sa has not had consistent 185 days without power.. that’s extreme BS.
South Africa is simply returning to the way it would have been anyway
When you have nothing nice to say, better shut up
And what way is that?
Alright settler, move back to Europe as you are needed there🙄
This never happened during the apartheid era
The answer to this problem is nuclear power
Honestly that might end with another chernobyl. Corruption within not just the gov but the workforce would have to be eradicated before even thinking about anything nuclear...
Watched a short doc a few weeks ago about how so many facilities keep requiring service and spare parts, it was cause some workers sabotages the equipment for a quick buck. They get payed by the repair companies.
So no to nuclear in SA for atleast a decade or two
With a incompetent black majority government, things arent going to get better, as we can see since 1994.
This all can be fixed by starting to educate the local population on how democracy really works to ensure the people know that we can and must change ruling party when they arent serving our best interests, and then electing a competent government that isnt driven by race issues but rather by improving the country for all, while being held accountable for every cent spent, and mistake made.
Sadly SA was still better before......
For only the white minority, we are trying to catch up & you don't like that😜
under apartheid, my family was thrown out of constantia and claremont
Under no apartheid, my family dont get jobs must give up more than half of their business, and are called racists and settlers so what is the difference?
@@nedor64 it's settled then. we need brutal racism back so a few can score.
@@nedor64 Its now even, now both parties must root out crooks and work together
@@msizimhlongo6215 even! how can it be even with BBEE and AA laws in place and even more race laws than there was before 1994?
@@nedor64 Had there been no Reservation of Jobs Act or the Bantu Education Act, BBEE and AA would not have been necessary.
West cape independence!
The main problem is lie not power
Progressivism and economic prosperity are mutually exclusive concepts! You have one at the detriment of the other I’m afraid there is no real world case anywhere on earth that proves otherwise. Also to my mind it makes total sense to cut off certain townships first because much of the electricity supply in these areas are illegally connected and most do not pay for the electricity they receive. So it’s a statistical reason. It’s fair on this basis alone understand that it’s not fair on those that do pay of course.
Lol what a hilarious way for you to admit modern economics is dependent on massive exploitation and discrimination.
That depends entirely on how you define the two concepts. Economic prosperity can be taken to mean economic growth or maximal welfare/quality of life in the nation and the general definition tends to be the latter which is why virtually every country has welfare systems and wealth transfers in place. Progressivism on the other hand depends entirely on the specifics. Greater equality of opportunity and access to realizing own capacity are stricktly beneficial for both economic growth and welfare where as quota enforcing will harm growth atleast in the short run. Then there are other progressive ideals like legalizing homosexuality and so on which have nothing to do with the economy.
@@shgalagalaa This is a silly argument as you cannot have effective welfare systems or wealth transfers without economic growth in the first place especially in nations that have steady or increasing populations like in Africa. So your point is actually moot! I find all types of progressivism morally inept as well completely ineffective. In layman's terms a nation cannot afford to be progressive at all in any sense of the word if it does not grow economically. Growth means more to go around shrinkage which is what is happening in South Africa in real terms means less to go around. You replace competent white people just because they are white and replace them with another person that isnt as competent because they have another skin colour stifles growth because you are baking inefficiency into the bread!
Found the Yank.
@@heldinahtmlhellI’m born and raised South African my friend! Being educated or knowledgeable does not make you American.
South Africa should have a huge windmill plant and a huge solar power field.
In development with the private sector, much to the chagrin of government. The public utility Eskom has been stripped bare by ANC corruption.