South Africa's Slow, Inevitable March Towards Collapse

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  • @randomguy17399
    @randomguy17399 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11125

    I’m from Zimbabwe.. 10 years ago when I was in highschool I told my SA friends that they needed to vote the ANC out or they’ll become like Zim. They laughed and told me SA could never become like Zim. A gross underestimation of what institutional incompetence can do to a country

    • @mrttripz3236
      @mrttripz3236 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +189

      Oh brother....

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +402

      Hopefully they will vote the ANC out. It seems that that's at least possible whereas in Zimbabwe they probably can't vote out the ZANU-PF.

    • @precariousworlds3029
      @precariousworlds3029 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      DA is the only option at this point. ANC are destroying a great country

    • @hypergraphic
      @hypergraphic 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +277

      I love Zimbabweans! They are so friendly and hard working. It's a shame how they often get treated by other black South Africans in the townships.

    • @feluto7172
      @feluto7172 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +410

      It doesn’t matter to Zuma supporters. His skin color and tribe are the only thing that matters

  • @jackbacon3723
    @jackbacon3723 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7329

    imagine being given a fully developed country with infrastructure and tons of natural resources and not being able to do anything with it

    • @MitchellPorter2025
      @MitchellPorter2025 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1206

      Lottery winners don't always know what to do with their winnings

    • @diegow7504
      @diegow7504 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1863

      Black excellence , what do you expect

    • @skanaraki2161
      @skanaraki2161 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      What country? You're remembering through rose tinted glasses my dear. Significantly more than half of the population didn't have access to electricity, water, sanitation, or decent education. The crime rate was much higher during apartheid than now. And the funny part was that was all intentional. So tell me, if a country is able to provide a decent standard of living for less than only 20% of its population is that country doing a good job? If your answer is yes then you're more delusional than you realize.
      What you should be asking is imagine talking land from people and oppressing them, breeding them for hard labour and then when they fight for their freedom you turn around and call them ungrateful?? There's a special kind of hell for people like this. The kind of evil that doesn't even realize how evil it is the worst kind. The kind of evil that can take a cursory glance at South Africa's history and still think they're the good guys in the equation is genuinely disturbing.

    • @dingahaban2288
      @dingahaban2288 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      '... fully developed..' for whom? A country stolen from the natives who were an infinite source of captive super cheap labour? How do you give away something that was never yours? It always was a mistake by Mandela and the magnanimous Mugabe to pursue a policy of reconciliation Kumbaya BS with the racists in Southern Africa. There should have been Nuremberg style trials. Now these racists feel like they got away with murder and are emboldened to continue talking crap about Africans in their own land.
      .

    • @dingahaban2288
      @dingahaban2288 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@John.Flower.Productions So keep gathering your stones in that inauspicious European peninsula of yours. Leave Africa out of it. Africans have existed in Africa unmolested for over 100 000 years and equipped themselves splendidly from their environment.

  • @dadoody
    @dadoody หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    Can only blame the White man for so long. Gave them a golden goose and the ANC completely turned it into rot.

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Well, if they hadnt kept the black population supressed for years, they would have been better educated and better able to see through ANC corruption. You can always blame history, even if it is entirely pointless at this point.

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Reading the comments here tells me much of the population is completely brainwashed into believing it’s the white mans fault….Very naive people.

    • @Paulin-pw5jx
      @Paulin-pw5jx 2 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Look at what they are doing in America …. It’s the same thing they are the only race who couldn’t survive by themselves if all the others went extinct

    • @billprendgergast8976
      @billprendgergast8976 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

      Seems a bit of a pattern here..Haiti, Zimbabwe, half of the US cities....what is the common denominator?

    • @dadoody
      @dadoody วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@billprendgergast8976 Modern day issue is Leftist brainwashing during upbringing. A lot of these people are taught to be perpetual victims straight out of the womb. Education in STEM isn't stressed, while sports are.

  • @zander1971shorty
    @zander1971shorty 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +106

    South Africa was the destination of our annual holiday for 12 years between 2001 and 2013. We loved the country, beautiful, clean and well organized. However, during these years we saw a clear decline in everything. Our last holiday in 2013 was almost unrecognizable from the first one in 2001. That was our last time sadly.

    • @dyawr
      @dyawr 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      That was also the year Mandela died. I hope he didn't leave with a sense of sadness for the country... May he rest in peace.🕯

    • @gavrilo8617
      @gavrilo8617 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      ​@dyawr Mandela destroyed South Africa. He and his wife were criminals, and he was imprisoned for a just reason.

    • @dyawr
      @dyawr 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@gavrilo8617 That's completely false. Mandela did a fantastic job to transfer South Africa from an apartheid, extremely oppressive, colonial state, to a democratic one. And during his presidency things changed for the better for most ppl in the country. He was also a world-class politician who *did not* deserve to be imprisoned, and in a democracy it never would've gotten to that.

    • @gavrilo8617
      @gavrilo8617 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@dyawr Apartheid was so terrible that South Africa was the only nuclear-powered country in Africa to ever exist to this day, raised the South African living standards to the point of exceeding that of the majority of Europe, had a health care system that was so great that Europeans and Americans would go to South Africa for surgeries, due to its cheaper cost and excellent quality.
      Blacks do not deserve the continent they have been given. Africa is rich, and beautiful, and the wealth and fruits of its prosperity belong to those that have the intellect and the fervor to extract them. Blacks are a bane of any functional civilization, and South Africa is yet another victim to perils of equity and racial revisionism.

    • @Tribuneoftheplebs
      @Tribuneoftheplebs 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      ​@@dyawr He was a terrible politician that is responsible for hiring and promoting most of the corrupt ruling elite within the ANC today. He may have been a good freedom fighter but he did not run the state well at all.

  • @psycold
    @psycold 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4437

    To give you an idea of how ridiculous SA is now, instead of actually fixing the blackouts, they issued a statement saying that the term "blackout" is racist, and renamed it, "load shedding".
    Truly the pinnacle of progress.

    • @VisibilityFoggy
      @VisibilityFoggy 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +274

      Ha, the (blue) state of New Jersey did the same thing, only it's known as "peak shedding."

    • @1Surt
      @1Surt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      When SA was controlled by it's founding bloodline (Dutch), SA has a space program.
      Then the ferals took control and viola, Johannesburg lacks sufficient drinking water.
      MultiCulturalism is code for destruction of White Man's Western Civilization. Sad.

    • @KevinSmith-qi5yn
      @KevinSmith-qi5yn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +174

      The only lesson learned from going into such a death spiral is that the government doesn't give up until it's hit rock bottom. Just look at Zimbabwe for South Africa's future. Zimbabwe has turned itself around after decades of race blaming socialism that never solved people's issues.

    • @christopherbedford9897
      @christopherbedford9897 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +127

      Yeah, nahh, bullshit. The two terms mean different things, and were invented internationally long before SA started using them.
      If you heard anyone telling you that story it was probably started either mischievously (like your repetition of it) or as a joke.

    • @christopherbedford9897
      @christopherbedford9897 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@KevinSmith-qi5yn

  • @xConceptZA
    @xConceptZA 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9023

    As a South African who doesn’t want to ever leave this place, this video makes me so sad and so angry. The absolute and complete incompetence and astounding corruption of the past and present president and other ANC leaders has royally screwed us all, no matter what colour we are

    • @RM-el3gw
      @RM-el3gw 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +251

      why do you keep voting for them

    • @PneumaticFrog
      @PneumaticFrog 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +380

      ​@@RM-el3gwI'm pretty sure they don't have a choice.

    • @PneumaticFrog
      @PneumaticFrog 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +258

      Honestly you should leave, you'll have a happier life. Doesn't matter where you live, you make life what you want it to be, leave the country that is going down the shitter and go to another country. Maybe in 20-30 years you can return, especially if you are rich.

    • @xConceptZA
      @xConceptZA 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +682

      @@RM-el3gw well I obviously don’t personally vote for them. From my experience, and people I’ve encountered, it’s predominantly the less educated who continue to vote for the ANC despite the never ending empty promises

    • @ydid687
      @ydid687 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      this is what's wrong with democracies, well meaning and informed people are bound by the idiotic notions held by the idiots
      you think your village is making life tough? imagine a sub-continent full of jackasses who think their sky daddy is superior to another minority tribe's sky daddy all the while making the islanders and the swiss richer

  • @mjribes
    @mjribes 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +19

    The reasons for SA's downfall:
    1) The civil service being flooded by people who had no experience. A friend described that as giving a Ferrari to a 17-year-old who had never driven a car. A crash was inevitable.
    2) Experienced white engineers were made redundant throughout the state-owned power, water, telecommunications and transport organisations. They were replaced by inexperience (and sometimes unqualified) black people. Strict race quotas meant that those white ex-employees could not be brought back.
    3) The ANC government became corrupt and the separation between the party and the state evaporated. Party members were given preferential placement into jobs in state-owned enterprises. Merit as a basis for employment have been replaced by party loyalty.
    4) The government decided to use race as a motivation for voters. Black voters were encouraged to see white politicians as the enemy.
    5) The "brain drain" is real. University graduates are leaving in their droves. I did that. I finished my masters and left 2 weeks later. I didn't even attent my graduation ceremony. I completed my PhD abroad and stayed there.
    6) No one wants to hold Rands. Every friend and relative I have in South Africa holds a bank account in Europe that they load with any spare money they can get out of the country.

  • @TopHatPenguin
    @TopHatPenguin 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

    It’s honestly just sad. They kicked out the people who built the place up and who went “you gotta deal with this otherwise it’s gonna be a problem” and they laughed at them and ignored it. Same thing happened with the farmers.

    • @kevindoran9389
      @kevindoran9389 15 วันที่ผ่านมา +14

      The new farmers are now overworking the soil and not letting it rest by planting every season, now the crops are failing, same in Rhodesia (wow...TH-cam did everything it could to stop me spelling that word)

    • @BodhiCody-mh2ec
      @BodhiCody-mh2ec 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@kevindoran9389 oy vey that's antisemitic to mention that history

    • @1Beta1
      @1Beta1 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      They didn't kick out anyone because the ANC wanted reconciliation so they had kept the people who built the country to assist them, but things slowly deteriorated. I don't know where you people get your information from

    • @yankees29
      @yankees29 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@1Beta1the fact is the Europeans developed the country and infrastructure. The country was basically handed over the the black population and they have no idea how to run a country.😂

    • @briangriffin8106
      @briangriffin8106 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@1Beta1 There have been many well documented instances of white farmers being brutally murdered. Are those false reports?

  • @sophrapsune
    @sophrapsune 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5020

    The regression of South Africa is ultimately just a symptom of the ANC’s epic levels of corruption and misgovernance.

    • @iinred1954
      @iinred1954 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +343

      I can think of other reasons.

    • @dunhillsupramk3
      @dunhillsupramk3 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iinred1954 no hes right, the lvl of corruption of ANY government at this lvl will result into these conditions.... look at Mexico or Brazil or Spain or Ukraine (just before the Russian invasion Ukraine couldn't pay their bills and there was rolling blackouts)...

    • @Toefoo100
      @Toefoo100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Africans start to run country. Country starts to turn into the average African country.
      Many such cases

    • @tonitappous2422
      @tonitappous2422 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

      Having recently watched the ARTE tv Documentary about Mayor Chris Pappas ( fluent in isiZulu) of uMngeni Municipality on TH-cam, the DA is by far the best choice to take SA and all South Africans forward in 2024!!!

    • @backendscroll3795
      @backendscroll3795 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +269

      The problem is that the black majority will only vote for the ANC or EFF.

  • @Codyray17ify
    @Codyray17ify 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +713

    My nephew did part of his internship, to become a doctor in South Africa.....he said an ER doctor in Canada could go his entire career without ever seeing a stab wound to the heart.....In South Africa....you'll see one...every day!

    • @Nkanyiso131
      @Nkanyiso131 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That’s cap

    • @RosslynR
      @RosslynR 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Except for OPPENHEIMER BILLIONAIRES!
      "I am an African. I live there and my children live there, and as far as I understand, they intend to go on living there."- Nicky Oppenheimer, Net worth: 8.3 billion USD (2023) Forbes

    • @benvalkenburg3932
      @benvalkenburg3932 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@RosslynR0

    • @Amanzi379
      @Amanzi379 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I know a Brit who did the same thing, he wanted experience which they would never give him in the uk. He volunteered at baragawanth hospital and dealt with everything.

    • @budgetking2591
      @budgetking2591 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yeah theres no knives in Canada

  • @111Rein
    @111Rein หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    We drove to the airport one last time in December 2023. It was heartbreaking and you feel gutted, but as this video explains so well, if you have the choice to leave you almost don't have the choice to stay...

    • @swaggisbaratheon4365
      @swaggisbaratheon4365 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Very sorry for your loss I hope your new life wherever you went holds better things for you

  • @anlo88
    @anlo88 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +32

    I am a South African who moved to Canada in 2023 and I must say you are spot-on with your research. I must admit I was hesitant to watch your video based on the majority of people getting it wrong, but you did not. The biggest problem in South Africa is corruption by government officials. The country's revenue service, SARS, has in the past expressed that taxation is sufficient, but corruption is killing the country.

    • @oogba71
      @oogba71 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Why didn't corruption kill SA when whites were in power? Are you saying blacks are more corrupt? What was the genesis of this scourge of corruption? A functioning government with stable infrastructure and a comparatively safe country were left to the black majority. If the government is corrupt and blacks keep voting corrupt parties and people into power, what does that say?

    • @JP-pq9xi
      @JP-pq9xi 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Isn't there something else that you can't mention as the reason?
      Source: Haiti, DRC, Sudan, somalia, brundi, Niger, Ethiopia. I can keep going.

    • @thabelongwenya4666
      @thabelongwenya4666 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You are wrong, you intentionally skipped the part where white structural racism play a role for why people refuse to vote for white parties.

  • @itsorcacraft9037
    @itsorcacraft9037 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5249

    As a South African I 100% agree with this video. This country is collapsing faster and faster every year.

    • @abhinavgarg4598
      @abhinavgarg4598 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      Why ANC banned ESKMO for building new plants ?

    • @AM_101
      @AM_101 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      What's going on over there
      I'm from Zambia

    • @greenie_687
      @greenie_687 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +143

      starting? it collapsed years and years ago bru

    • @LeiSnows
      @LeiSnows 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      South Afri is doomed to collaspe into a non functional tribe sooner or later, as all afri countries do. Afris are far too low IQ to form and maintain nation states. This is why only developed and educated peoples, almost exclusively from Europe, managed to create functioning societies and nation states. Before white people showed them the way, afris were still banging rocks together and chucking spears. Cavemen. We uplifted them. As europeans, we spent decades trying to uplift cavemen from afri, and help them rule themselves. But afris are far too low iq for that.

    • @AM_101
      @AM_101 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I've been aware of that but what really is the problem

  • @SenorTucano
    @SenorTucano 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1820

    I was working in Honduras with a group of South African expats.
    I was shocked to over hear two of their wives chatting to each other about how much safer Honduras was than ‘back home’.

    • @stephanieparker1250
      @stephanieparker1250 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      Ooof 😰

    • @yo2trader539
      @yo2trader539 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And I was under the impression Honduras was the murder capital. I suppose it's all relative.

    • @SenorTucano
      @SenorTucano 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +135

      @@pa_2600 in places yes

    • @bruderschweigen6889
      @bruderschweigen6889 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Haha damn 😅

    • @k4door789
      @k4door789 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Honduras is the most dangerous County in Latin America

  • @janstan8407
    @janstan8407 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +168

    Why is no one blaming the family at the top of the ANC? The Mandela family is corrupt to the core, but if you say anything about them, guess what? You are labeled a racist.

    • @richardjones7984
      @richardjones7984 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      Corruption is causing poverty and pain in every country. A proper police force that views corruption as a top priority is the answer. Puerto Rico turned their country around by getting a good police force that eliminated organised crime.

    • @b.v.437
      @b.v.437 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@richardjones7984 can you provide more detail please?

    • @janstan8407
      @janstan8407 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@richardjones7984 You obviously do not know the extent of the corruption of the ANC. I'm not talking about a few million skimmed here and there, I'm talking about hundreds of millions that was meant for infrastructure but not a dime made it there. But the Mandela family build and bought property and houses worth tens of millions of dollars. All of the family. Where'd that money come from? That's just the tip of the iceberg. Do some research into what has caused the food and energy shortages. The insane increase in rape and violent crime and why the police are ineffective. I think S.A. is the rape capital of the world now.

    • @Chris-xv2gm
      @Chris-xv2gm 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@b.v.437Find out for yourself.

    • @Tespri
      @Tespri 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@b.v.437 Use google. Basically their president eliminated some human rights and legal protections from criminals and threw anyone connected to crime even vaguely to jail. Worked like charm. Of course now there is the possibility that he could do same with his political enemies, so that part is still unfolded.

  • @durosennen7763
    @durosennen7763 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    all already seen in Rhodesia-Zimbabwe. From an organized country and a large exporter of food and industrial products. With the absence of any production and hunger. Currently, SAR lives on inherited goods, and even that is being consumed and slowly disintegrating.

  • @malbirrell
    @malbirrell 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +499

    A mate of mine was a farmer in Zimbabwe and left with nothing but his life. He told me years ago that SA was going to end up exactly the same as Zim

    • @felongtw1
      @felongtw1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      And yet ... so few agreed and so few saw the writing on the wall.

    • @derekp8527
      @derekp8527 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Rhodesia was also ruled by whites so your friend was smart. Any realist not afraid to hurt people's feelings predicted that.

    • @bob-zi1eb
      @bob-zi1eb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@derekp8527 Thanks for apologizing for racism. Zimbabwe is actually thriving but you continue on being a racist. Good for you.

    • @bob-zi1eb
      @bob-zi1eb 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You do understand that white farmers obtained lands due to colonization right? They forcibly took those lands. That wrong corrected itself that's what happens.

    • @tripsadelica
      @tripsadelica 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

      @@bob-zi1eb Yeah, is that so? Read this:
      "Zimbabwe's annual consumer inflation eased to 17.8% in October 2023, from September's 18.4%, mainly due to slowing prices of housing & utilities (23.2% vs 25.3% in September); food & non-alcoholic beverages (17.8% vs 18.4%); education (25.4% vs 31%) and communication (42.1% vs 50.2%)."
      Hyperinflation has slowed since that a-hole Mugabe kicked the bucket but his party's hold on power in the country and the destruction of the rule of law have meant the economy there is a basket case. This is because of violent, tirbalist black thinking. This thinking needs to evolve and change. Botswana has managed it and if the ANC getted booted then perhaps SA can come out of its malaise. I certainly hope so.

  • @sarahwing7468
    @sarahwing7468 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1652

    I am a South African now living abroad. My entire family left SA one by one. My 5 siblings and I all left to different countries, wherever we found opportunities. last to leave was my parents 4 years ago. I miss SA so much but I know I have no future there, and without my parents there it doesn’t even feel like home anymore. I’m very fortunate to have the means to emigrate and start a new life, but I don’t personally enjoy being a foreigner everywhere I go. But most of all I’m terribly sad that my family is scattered across the globe. This happens to a lot of South Africans. If you are lucky enough to live near family don’t take it for granted.

    • @zedrake
      @zedrake 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +83

      I'm from the UK but my partner is from SA. Gave you a like because this is almost exactly how she feels

    • @mikeg3728
      @mikeg3728 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have family there. They are woke zombies who keep explaining away how the difficulties there are really the fault of white American men. Not even joking. They talk like they are members of some kind of woke cult.
      Meanwhile they have private security from 4 pm to 8 am every day at their home, seven days a week, and also have iron bars over the windows, iron gate in front of the front door, even their security cameras are in little locked cages. The disconnect is... breathtaking.

    • @dimodimov5298
      @dimodimov5298 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +67

      South Africa was the best place in the world.
      Your parents gave it away.
      Consider yourself lucky that you were able to escape.

    • @christopherbedford9897
      @christopherbedford9897 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      @@dimodimov5298 If by "gave away" you mean "tried too hard to hang on to" then yes. Well maybe grandparents, probably not parents.
      I am continuously and repeatedly astonished at just how narrow-minded the whole colonial mindset was (and continues to be, in certain places) - they clearly thought they would be able to continue occupying countries forever, scattering favours here and there to "the natives" while raking in the riches. I was brought up with that as the prevailing received wisdom and it took me decades to realise _FFS no,_ when you try to exclude the majority of the people like that you end up having it taken away from you.
      Sure, colonialism didn't bring only badness. Try as you might you can't deny that having roads, rail, and electricity is better than having nothing at all, but beyond any debate the attitude to human rights was absolutely abysmal at best.

    • @AltRockLover
      @AltRockLover 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Didn't only bring "badness"? A culture steeped in innovation and forward thinking, aka Western civilization and values, can do nothing but crumble under the weight of "inclusion" of a civilization based on subsistence living.
      You can't have it both ways! To think that all cultures are equal, and all we have to do is "include" a non-Western culture into the First World is the height of white supremacy IMHO.

  • @gregsutton2400
    @gregsutton2400 หลายเดือนก่อน +178

    South Africa is declining, but declining to the Sub Saharan African Norm.

    • @matthewriley5819
      @matthewriley5819 26 วันที่ผ่านมา

      SA is actually a hell of a lot worse than most other sub-Saharan African countries.

    • @i.lungsmaras7244
      @i.lungsmaras7244 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Germany has more potholes than South Africa and the same number of blackouts... Most electricity given to industry during the day and less for households, and at night the other way around...and will need about 13 times more to fix its infrastructure than SA needs, which it doesn't have... It's not alone, Canada too, and most of the EU outside Scandanavia... So, by your logic, declining becominmg the norm for Europe too...
      PS: Just google (helps to balnce your thinking when using facts not fake racial superiority)!!!

    • @chuch541
      @chuch541 24 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Tell me you know nothing about world history… 😂😂😂

    • @Tespri
      @Tespri 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

      @@chuch541 if you knew you would've been able to school him instead of acting like a child.

    • @chuch541
      @chuch541 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@Tespri really? your expectations/ judgement mean little to me tbh…. it’s simply not my job. I will shame those who very apparently put zero effort into understand the world in which they exist. The people around you are no less important than you. The places around you, all deserving of the same security, and freedom. Anyone talking on a hateful/xenophobic/political tip. Is generally a lazy, do nothin who regurgitates all the shit they hear. Actions deserving of nothing but shame. Period.
      We all choose who we are. Our actions define us. Pick up a book and you’ll quickly realize we’re all way way more alike than not.
      History is a like a minstrel wherein every idiot ignores the red flags over and over, and we do it again…
      Statements like Greg posted, are sadly not few or far between

  • @JH-ck1nr
    @JH-ck1nr 25 วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    If you can sing, shout and jump up and down your in. What could possibly go wrong 😂😂

  • @oagengseleke9637
    @oagengseleke9637 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +959

    As a South African living currently in Johannesburg I'm not exaggerating when I say this is just the tip of the iceberg we have a lot more social issues. The collapse is unavoidable at this stage ANC has done too much damage.

    • @Truther945
      @Truther945 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      What other social issues make this worse? Do you ear for your safety daily?

    • @ruangreyling2073
      @ruangreyling2073 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

      ​@@Truther945 Well for Johannesburg specifically illegal mining is a massive issue and it's compromising the city's infrastructure. The public healthcare system is falling apart as well as the public school system. Basically everything the government touches turns to rot. Some people try and make it a race issue but it's a tale as old as time that stretches across all races. The exact same thing happened in multiple Eastern European countries after the fall of the Soviet union. Politicians came in and promised capitalism and democracy but instead just put in place a system if cronyism which they used to enrich themselves.

    • @noreply-7069
      @noreply-7069 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ruangreyling2073 They promise democracy but bring socialism. Also even Eastern Europe isn't as screwed as SA is. The farm kills especially are so horrible.

    • @danielcarvalho4429
      @danielcarvalho4429 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@Truther945 being in fear of violent crime is an everyday thing is SA. But you sort of get used to that. But ya, there are just feedback looks of corruption and sadly still quite a lot of racism in the older generation that just keeps pushing the country further done the this road. Eskom being a joke of a power utility definitely doesn't help things either though.

    • @Sanddollar1
      @Sanddollar1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is cultural issue, but 100% of nations led by Black African governments are abject failures--that is no coincidence. African culture must radically change.@@ruangreyling2073

  • @PietSkiet-nf7jl
    @PietSkiet-nf7jl 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +695

    I grew up in South Africa. The reason for the collapse and immanent implosion of South Africa is the corrupt ANC. The energy problem is just one of many.

    • @LostInMarxism
      @LostInMarxism 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The South African collapse is and always has been a matter of evolution. Some races are not as intelligent as others.

    • @harrykuheim6107
      @harrykuheim6107 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How many New Cars, Jewelry, Mansions, and Drugs did the ANC buy...The same thing is happening in Chicago with Black Lies Matter.

    • @christineshotton824
      @christineshotton824 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      The ANC was a Soviet funded and Cuban supported communist revolutionary group. Every communist regime in history has resulted in misery for its people. It was folly to believe ANC would be any better.

    • @KDean22
      @KDean22 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      MOSTLY LOW INTELLIGENCE

    • @KDean22
      @KDean22 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      MARCHING BACKWARDS

  • @alcopersino7855
    @alcopersino7855 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Hell on earth, just like the rest of the continent. Why is this a surprise to anyone?

  • @davidbarsotti
    @davidbarsotti หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    Was there 20 years ago could have told you this with 100% accuracy

  • @ValiantValium
    @ValiantValium 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +834

    It's almost as if the ANC proceeded to use it's newfound power to enrich itself and its friends, rather than actually work for the benefit of the country. Curious.

    • @ravanpee1325
      @ravanpee1325 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tribalism and corruption is part of the system in Africa

    • @itsorcacraft9037
      @itsorcacraft9037 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +70

      @@thecatat7 what really? A country with every second headline being about corruption being corrupt. Can't be

    • @devondeswardt6239
      @devondeswardt6239 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      That is exactly what happened. Pretty much from day 1

    • @andrewhooper7603
      @andrewhooper7603 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +56

      Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

    • @DawryMike
      @DawryMike 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Welcome to liberal capitalism

  • @Djungelurban
    @Djungelurban 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1774

    South Africa is just about the the most stunning display of self-sabotage that I can remember ever happening.

    • @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
      @sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +347

      You’ve never heard of Zimbabwe?

    • @emptylungs
      @emptylungs 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +226

      Or Haiti?

    • @silverhost9782
      @silverhost9782 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +396

      Wonder what the connecting factor is between the 3 countries listed above?🧐

    • @lucasglowacki4683
      @lucasglowacki4683 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@silverhost9782again…people who lived like cave men a generation or two ago can’t be expected to run a country… no matter what the race, they just happen to be THAT race🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @paulcoleman5512
      @paulcoleman5512 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +263

      ​@@silverhost9782Ssshhh don't mention the obvious.

  • @gtxchufxvj
    @gtxchufxvj หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    We saw this coming in 1994 and we see what's still coming. From bad to worse.

  • @ksteenkamp2466
    @ksteenkamp2466 29 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    Good documentary. I moved back to South Africa 20 years ago after a 5 year work visa in Europe. Am I glad I did? Hell yes. Does this country have big problems? Sure. The last time I checked, we are still a democracy. The nation is more and more informed on the problems of the country and their cause. There is an election coming in 7 weeks time on May 29th, 2024. Let the people of South Africa determine their own destiny.

  • @ricequackers
    @ricequackers 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1563

    As a British software engineer, I always wondered why I met a very disproportionate number of South Africans in my line of work in the UK (including a former SA Navy engineer with a million fantastic stories about the old country). I guess this is why.

    • @Sataka23clips
      @Sataka23clips 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The truth is Africans ruin everything. Look at Zimbabwe. If u want to fix s.a u start by removing zanu pf . Then anc

    • @IK_MK
      @IK_MK 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      ​@@Sataka23clipsAHH yes because White and Indian _"contractors"_ are definitely not benefitting from the corrupt ANCs kickbacks 🤦🏾‍♂️

    • @carlose6010
      @carlose6010 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      ​@@IK_MKSo as everyone is saying ANC has been the problem from the start.. fought to keep out federalism so they have even more power.

    • @bestrenderings796
      @bestrenderings796 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

      The UK is on the same track demographically speaking.

    • @thisisaname5589
      @thisisaname5589 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Imagine being a white man in a nation that doesn't care about keeping white men in power. Well, you'll find out soon, most likely.

  • @BobfromSydney
    @BobfromSydney 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1573

    The ANC is the real load that South Africa needs to shed. It's a shame they have not policed their own internal corruption.

    • @Shinkajo
      @Shinkajo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      I think the ANC is working as intended. What incentive do they have to fix anything if they're making money off the corruption?

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Shinkajo oh right, mandela was a marxist
      this makes way too much sense now

    • @resphantom
      @resphantom 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@Shinkajo When the money starts leaving the country. Unlike most African countries, South Africans have the privilege of an education, even though that is going backwards very quickly. Hopefully they have enough of an education to see that bad service delivery means bad government.

    • @christopher9727
      @christopher9727 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No hope in going to the past come to the loving savior today
      Seek his Holy Spirit in prayer today he can give you peace confort and guidance today
      Romans 6:23
      For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
      Come to Jesus Christ today
      Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
      Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
      Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
      Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
      John 3:16-21
      16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
      Mark 1.15
      15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
      2 Peter 3:9
      The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
      Hebrews 11:6
      6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
      Jesus

    • @darmaw22
      @darmaw22 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      No party polices its own internal corruption unless external mechanisms force them to do so: an independent justice system, media, other parties, etc., namely checks and balances.

  • @shalashaska5851
    @shalashaska5851 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Is anyone surprised by this? When left to their own devices…..

  • @stevenleslie8557
    @stevenleslie8557 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    It was predicted over 30 years ago.

  • @stacyliddell5038
    @stacyliddell5038 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2165

    I'm a South African who has emigrated with no intention of ever moving back and I'm not alone. It's sad to watch the destruction of a nation with such huge potential. Corruption all the way down.

    • @goldenretriever6261
      @goldenretriever6261 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      I have a SA friend here in Canada. He left in the 90s and has never gone back.

    • @Georgi_Slavov79
      @Georgi_Slavov79 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Where did you go?

    • @ajc-ff5cm
      @ajc-ff5cm 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

      South Africa was supposed to be Africa's lightning rod, showing the continent how to move beyond and integrate with its colonial past. Sadly, corruption, theft, blame, mismanagement, and any attempt to fix it is blamed as regression to apartheid. It's a shame.

    • @occamraiser
      @occamraiser 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      There are so few corruption-free nations in Africa - but surely those are the model for the rest.

    • @user_4046
      @user_4046 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      @@ajc-ff5cm Which version of South Africa was the model for Africa? Are you talking about the Apartheid South Africa or the current South Africa? I don't see a model in either.

  • @Jin-Ro
    @Jin-Ro 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +372

    I work for one of the biggest Corporations in the world with a presence in SA. We employ thousands there in two locations. We're almost certainly going to close them and relocate them to the Middle East and UK. The constant thefts of copper which takes down the network in the area, the load shedding, the pilfering by staff is unsustainable.
    We're not the only Corp that is leaving or considering it. SA is a failed State, and there's no getting around that fact.

    • @AHD2105
      @AHD2105 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Sounds like NY and other cities in the US 🤣😅

    • @somapersona
      @somapersona 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      ​@@AHD2105wonder what they have in common

    • @AHD2105
      @AHD2105 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@somapersona Resentment.

    • @svencoles8071
      @svencoles8071 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Reality... believe me

    • @occamraiser
      @occamraiser 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And S.A. will be bought up by russia for it's vote in the UN.

  • @billybambam6058
    @billybambam6058 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +35

    >large, highly educated workforce.
    citation NEEDED

    • @DROGOC0P
      @DROGOC0P 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      they wuz kangz n shiet, no citation needed whiteboi

    • @yesiam7481
      @yesiam7481 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      wut u talkin bout 'sai-tay-shuns' whiteboy? we wuz down dere muhfuggin WORkIN HARD den dem evil wyt peepol came & don stoleed it all again. .... shiiiiiiiieeeeeet bruh now souf afrika be fuuuuuuuuuckeddd upp

    • @Ritesh-yy1zr
      @Ritesh-yy1zr 8 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      Unfortunately the unskilled took over the skilled

    • @jfkst1
      @jfkst1 7 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      The whites were.

  • @itsvmmc
    @itsvmmc หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    This is insane. I remember when South Africa was around the same level economically as most post-Soviet countries. But now many post-Soviet countries are growing steadily, while South Africa seems to go backwards.

    • @i.lungsmaras7244
      @i.lungsmaras7244 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

      When was this...because as far as we, SOUTH AFRICANS, know and if we're honest, nothing was developed during apartheid except a few white towns... TRUTH...so at which point in time are you taliing about???????

    • @itsvmmc
      @itsvmmc 23 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      @@i.lungsmaras7244 South Africa is one of the richest countries in Africa (if not THE richest) when it comes to GDP per capita and other metrics. This has been the case for at least the past few decades

    • @i.lungsmaras7244
      @i.lungsmaras7244 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@itsvmmc Well!! The DRC, Equitorial Guinea and Argentina have some of the bet looking metrics for for economic stats... EG is the wold's fastest growing economy and richest nation (go look at the Wold Bank GDP stats & per capita numbers), but they don't have tar roads, schools, running water and most families get-by on less than $2 per day, the less said about the DRC. And Argentina just defaulted on their international loans, the currency is worthless and most people go to bed hungry - but their GDP numbers are something elswe... Same with South Africa for the last 80-90 yeas... The WHOLE WESTERN WORLD had a term for the vast majority of South Africa's white people... WHITE POVERTY!!!
      Ask your white grand paents what life was like before 1994, they'll tell you most white people were barely getting-by... I always say white people should vote ANC and native people should vote for anyone but the ANC... WHite people in SA never had it so good. and the native population only gained no longer having the colour-bar, nothing else... Now bring facts...not stats becaue as you know they say "There's lies, Damned lies ans STATISTICS"...

    • @i.lungsmaras7244
      @i.lungsmaras7244 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@itsvmmc PS: Which point in time are you talking about... we can just look online at all sorts of historic evidence... such as percentage of raods paved, number of households with running water and electric power, and all sorts of other "REAL" socio-economic metrics, not statistics... SO go on and tell us... AT WHICH POINT WAS SOUTH AFRICA DEVELOPED BEYOND 8% of current infrastructure and AT WHICH POINT WAS THERE INDUSTRY BEYOND the PWV AREA, RICHARD'S BAY, UITENHAGE and THE SO-CALLED RAILWAY TOWNS... GO on, tell us!!!

    • @TheBfutgreg
      @TheBfutgreg 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@itsvmmc Uneven development, probably due to all of....you know, its history and shit
      Proper sustainable growth can't occur overnight with a divided populace

  • @telcobilly
    @telcobilly 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +209

    I moved to SA as a kid from the US in 1968 and returned to the US in '79. Agood amount of my friends have left the country.
    AC - Alternating Current
    DC - Direct Current
    ANC - Absolutely No Current

    • @telcobilly
      @telcobilly 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@Scalwag4087 your profound comment brings so much to the table! I still have family and friends there, so your crystal ball about other people's lives might need a little Windex. This is a public forum, so I'll move along when I'm good and ready..

  • @faro99ru
    @faro99ru 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +458

    As a Zimbabwean this is all Deja vu. We’ve seen South Africa’s trajectory decades ago because, we saw the same thing happen to our country. We got over our own sense of exceptionality, we’ve seen it all. None of this is new to us !

    • @thuthukanisjaka2597
      @thuthukanisjaka2597 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Zimbabwean settler.

    • @faro99ru
      @faro99ru หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@thuthukanisjaka2597 settled where? Certainly not in South Africa

    • @thuthukanisjaka2597
      @thuthukanisjaka2597 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@faro99ru You are a settler.

    • @devinfraserashpole4753
      @devinfraserashpole4753 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The South African black people will be humbled one day.@@faro99ru

    • @rekamud6635
      @rekamud6635 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

      @@thuthukanisjaka2597 not even black people want to go to south africa :(

  • @Dayne27
    @Dayne27 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

    I'm a South African, currently living here. Yes our situation isn't great, but I don't plan on leaving, I'm not giving up on this country. You fellow South Africans that left, you may have your house in a country with far few problems that South Africa, but where is your home? If I have to go through tough times just to see light in this country once again, so be it.

    • @RLee-we1fc
      @RLee-we1fc 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Do you blame the government for what's going on now?

  • @MustacheCashStash125
    @MustacheCashStash125 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    South Africans : You have freed us!
    ANC : Oh I wouldn’t say freed more like under new management

  • @Tom-yu9if
    @Tom-yu9if 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2071

    It is such a mess. I’m from New Zealand and my neighbour moved here from South Africa 10 years ago. They had a massive ranch but one day their barn was burnt down. The arsons then went to their house with guns and told them they were taking it over. They had to surrender everything and the next week they called it quits and jumped on a plane. It’s crazy to think it has only got worse since then

    • @SA_PASF
      @SA_PASF 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

      Stop spreading fake news

    • @brianw3415
      @brianw3415 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +626

      ​@@SA_PASFKeep your blinders on yourself.

    • @DavidWestwater-vq6qy
      @DavidWestwater-vq6qy 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +276

      People will try to tell you that that's reparations the thing is though that that ranch will now be fallow. It will produce nothing and it will go back to the wild said it was when you first found. Naturally they will be left food sent into the cities and the food prices will rise

    • @humanbeing2730
      @humanbeing2730 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      based

    • @angrydragonslayer
      @angrydragonslayer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +329

      @@SA_PASF please explain how it's fake news, i have lost several friends in similar scenarios where the perpetrators decided to just shoot instead.

  • @BryanO92
    @BryanO92 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1739

    A friend of mine was involved in the construction of Kusile power station. Kusile had a timeline of about 18 months and was supposed to be completed in time for the 2010 World Cup. It was finally finished in 2021. It was a source of many South African jobs and essentially the contractor was happy to take their cost plus and the government was happy to have a big employer and a perpetual source of bribes and nobody cared if it was ever finished. Periodically, anonymous vandals would come in and destroy months of construction and they rebuilt it over and over again. It was a 13 year makework jobs program. South African government in a nutshell.

    • @jvanvuuren8461
      @jvanvuuren8461 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      They are still building on Kusile. Medupi was finished until it wasn't. They designed it wrong and need to correct the mistakes.

    • @rolotomasi5935
      @rolotomasi5935 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jvanvuuren8461 What you are missing in your analysis is the World Bank Debt wracked up in order for South Africa to lose the asset to the world bank. Privatising our power which is the end goal just like Suez and many many other examples. Read Confessions of an ecconomic hitman. The Bought ANC leaders (not all) are owned by the Bankers who require a failed state in SA. Which is why the first use of the Phrase came long ago in 2014 when the idea was cooked up. Alan Dershowitz used the phrase tactically during the Oscar Pistorius trial.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +77

      When i see programs like that or how many Chinese governments are basically just building apartment complexes so they can tear them back down it always just depresses me. They're doing it as busy work and to keep people working but why not put that same money and resources into effective infrastructure projects? Instead of spending 13 years of funding and work on a 1.5 year project why not do 8 different projects? The country definitely needs more power but they also need some more water infrastructure as well as public housing too.
      It's not that bad here but I worked in government contracting in the US for awhile and found the wasted spending just depressing. I literally did work for a school where they spent around $1500-$2000 _per chair_ in the schools administration offices and replaced all the nearly new chairs with brand new ones (they "old" ones were in such good condition I took a couple and been using them for around 8 years now), they also spent around $2000 to replace a switch and a light in a closet, but that same school cant afford to give kids basic supplies like spare paper, pencils, and pens and they had to make budget cuts in some areas. Thanks to that kind of experience I look at some of these wasteful projects and all i can do is think about how the money could be better spent and i can see the many ways the money is lost due to corruption and incompetence.

    • @rybuds47
      @rybuds47 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      ​@@Info7Dayfrom Hamas

    • @rongliu1182
      @rongliu1182 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      This is because the people lack ownership. When socialism, communism promised you equality, and diversity, you lose accountability and ownership.

  • @bossrabbit
    @bossrabbit 16 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    Moral of the story - Don't bite the hand that feeds you!

  • @michaelhoffmann2891
    @michaelhoffmann2891 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    "Traditionally" (if you can call it a tradition), South Africans have moved to Perth. Strict currency export rules have prevented emigrants from taking their money out except *in person* and in annual chunks. So they would fly back and forth every so often to withdraw another bit of their money. I don't know if that has changed now, because I encounter more ZAians where I live. There is now a developing enclave nearby (Vic, Australia)

    • @NostraFnDamus
      @NostraFnDamus 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Went to school in Perth in the 90s. We had several teachers with thick accents and wild stories. They got out while the getting was good...

    • @-f-r-
      @-f-r- 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Bitcoin? Gold coins sown into clothes as buttons, in purse with other random useless coins? Diamond rings and jewelry? If I lived in SA as a white man I’d be looking to organize with friends and family to leave ASAP and move to some new place together. Hope everyone gets out safe.

    • @michaelhoffmann2891
      @michaelhoffmann2891 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@-f-r- You think that if any of these were really feasible options, the thousands of South Africans who have left wouldn't be doing those? My gods, they must al l be idiots, you should open a consulting business to share your advice! Ugh, I just *love* Youtubians who come along with their "duh, simples, just do XYZ, what a bunh of maroons, lolz".

    • @DebraGruber-hk7xl
      @DebraGruber-hk7xl 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Michael, I j just went to Australia and I loved it, but the antisemitism ive seen there and here now in New York leads me to be emphatic that theres is only one place for us and thats in our national homeland. At least there we have our army, airforce and Navy.

    • @michaelhoffmann2891
      @michaelhoffmann2891 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@DebraGruber-hk7xl It's not quite on topic, I'd say, as we are talking about (white - mostly?) South Africans leaving *their* home country to find a new one. So, the argument would be that *every* people deserves a home country that they can feel safe in? As for the increasing anti-semitism globally, it's fairly obviously a campaign with lots and lots of Useful Idiots, with college kids who couldn't have places Israel or Gaza on a map a few weeks ago. Most people *here* have probably never even met a Jew. I have and am an unabashed (still!) Judaeophile. The disaster that people like Netanyahu are bringing over not just the Palestinians but *his own country and people* just to secure his not finally going to jail is a calamity. We can but hope that there will be historians who can judge him harshly one day.

  • @gagenott
    @gagenott 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1612

    I'm a South African. My dad's a primary school teacher. He spent years unable to get a stable teaching position here - something this video didn't discuss is how rampant and extreme the unemployment situation has gotten throughout the country, in every industry.
    My mother has been stuck in a job she hates for over a decade, with no room for promotion or growth and a salary that barely puts food on the table for all of us. The unemployment situation means looking for another job has simply never been feasible. The odds of finding anything else are slim at best.
    My dad finally found a job offer from Malaysia and took it. There teachers are well-paid and sought-after. We saved enough that he was able to bring my teenage sister along too.
    The situation in this country has torn my family apart. But if he stayed, they'd just be stuck in the same trap of desperation and poverty, with never enough money to contribute towards pension/retirement.
    For the people who can't afford to live in secured, gated communities, have private generators/solar panels, buy purified water, etc, who don't have high-paying and secure jobs and can handle the ever-increasing cost of living, the situation seems so hopeless.

    • @kamaruleffendi
      @kamaruleffendi 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I'm a malaysian

    • @minovskyparticles1834
      @minovskyparticles1834 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      are you white?

    • @BBFCCO733
      @BBFCCO733 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      BLM that's why....

    • @advan1832
      @advan1832 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      So sad and so true :(

    • @donk3y863
      @donk3y863 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Welcome to Malaysia

  • @ThinkTankTheory
    @ThinkTankTheory 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +344

    I'm a south African with a German passport, and because of how bad the economy is here, I can't make enough money to emigrate. I'm literally trapped in South Africa, by South Africa, and have no means of escape. I'm watching my country collapse around me and there's nothing I can do about it.

    • @cornballmcgoo7174
      @cornballmcgoo7174 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +41

      The grownups need to retake control of the country

    • @kafkaesqueee
      @kafkaesqueee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Me too...

    • @lungalunga1470
      @lungalunga1470 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      😂😅imagine your entire lineage being from here and no European passport

    • @f3cktrackingmydata770
      @f3cktrackingmydata770 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      only immigrants allowed no white people allowed to moved back to europe

    • @laveritaforza108
      @laveritaforza108 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      You actually have a European passport. Look at other options ( countries) in Europe. Germany is one of the most expensive and the quality of life is rather poor.

  • @shaneryan7622
    @shaneryan7622 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    The amount of South Africans now coming to Ireland will tell you all you need to know about South Africa to be honest..

  • @thorsvenson3530
    @thorsvenson3530 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This was fascinating. Thank you.

  • @jpaulc441
    @jpaulc441 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1191

    I remember in the early 90's, my school in the UK started getting an intake of white South African kids whose parents chose to emigrate instead of staying in SA. One of their parents was friends with my mum and she said that while she loved South Africa and hoped the post-apartheid country would be successful, she didn't want to risk the future of her children so she felt she had to emigrate. I think she made the right decision.

    • @goodshipkaraboudjan
      @goodshipkaraboudjan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +114

      Same in the 2000s in Australia. We had a lot of Saffers in school and their stories were wild.

    • @Toefoo100
      @Toefoo100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +100

      Hopefully her grandchildren won't have to experience what she did in the UK. At the current path they might

    • @CB-so8xd
      @CB-so8xd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      @@Toefoo100 Can't run forever.

    • @f3cktrackingmydata770
      @f3cktrackingmydata770 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      this is gona produce some nasty conflict all western nations have heavy immigration from people who resent us. I dont know how or when but within a few decades possibly much sooner a lot of people are gona suffer over this

    • @keepitsharp7231
      @keepitsharp7231 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yep, I'm one of them.

  • @huascar66
    @huascar66 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +196

    The ANC has absolutely destroyed South Africa. They simply cannot govern. There was so much hope at the beginning, but the ANC corrupted that. It is a shame.

    • @tyrone9953
      @tyrone9953 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The country was destroyed long before the ANC, do you not know history?

    • @NearQuasar
      @NearQuasar 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      They didn’t destroy South Africa; the economy hasn’t collapsed despite all the shit the ANC lets it endure.

    • @camerondunn4620
      @camerondunn4620 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like the bible says man can't rule over man. Corruption is everywhere

    • @advan1832
      @advan1832 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@NearQuasar matter of time.

    • @ninab.4540
      @ninab.4540 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

      ​@@NearQuasarAt some point, after 29 years of governance yes. It's their fault. And no one else's.

  • @wfowler5
    @wfowler5 20 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    this is no surprise. what did you expect?

  • @veryexcellentniceguy9641
    @veryexcellentniceguy9641 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It's fascinating to see how wealthy South Africans are essentially creating a parallel society by privatizing the typically public services because of how bad the ANC has proven to be at basic functions of government

  • @egregiousdave
    @egregiousdave 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +585

    I spent three months in South Africa, seeing the whole country as a backpacker in 2002. People kept telling me it would be another Zimbabwe in 20 years. I wouldn't dream of going back - which is sad, as it's one of the world's most beautiful countries.

    • @eisbeinGermany
      @eisbeinGermany 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds, not to speak about all the fruit it has, no fruit gets imported, the wine farms are the best,

    • @carlosmango2341
      @carlosmango2341 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      zim is safer to back pack .

    • @eisbeinGermany
      @eisbeinGermany 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      Stay far away from South Africa 🌍🌍🌍

    • @carlosmango2341
      @carlosmango2341 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      we left years ago. even bulgaria on a bad day is better and normal. s a is a marxist zhit hol banana republic @@eisbeinGermany

    • @dayneclark140
      @dayneclark140 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Let it go back to a third world country mandala did not do them any favors they can't run a country they get what they vote for

  • @mike-ot4ux
    @mike-ot4ux 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +466

    I have gotten so used to it that i didn't realise the irony that im watching this in loadshedding right now

    • @africantraveler7004
      @africantraveler7004 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Same here!!! Giant generator humming in the background. How tragic

    • @HyperRosee
      @HyperRosee หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I'm currently in NYC with my parents and we go back to ZA in 4 years or so,I don't want to go back now that I remember how bad the country is at the moment and I'm only 13

    • @ricardozk
      @ricardozk หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I'm laughing because it's the same thing for me. 😂

    • @aiodensghost8645
      @aiodensghost8645 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm watching this whilst camping, having charged the phone off the solar panel on the camper. I feel for all of you though... not having access to consistent power and having to rely on a generator half the time, all the time gets old

    • @aiodensghost8645
      @aiodensghost8645 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@ricardozkhey, sometimes laughing when you're angry or frustrated is the BEST thing to do

  • @prima6170
    @prima6170 27 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    There's a lot more to the story that needs to be told, and acknowledged.

  • @chloetzang631
    @chloetzang631 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    I lived in South Africa for a couple of months 15 years ago and it was a mess then. I can imagine how it is now, it was going downhill fast then. Black corruption an incompetence managed to destroy pretty much everything. As for Zimbabwe, words fail me.....

    • @almighty5839
      @almighty5839 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      Yup truly heartbreaking

    • @i.lungsmaras7244
      @i.lungsmaras7244 23 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Name a part of the world outside Scandanavia that is actually not breaking apart... German infrastuctre, wods fails the Getrmans... And that's the best they have to put u in Europe... Now that we have your racism and Chinese-superiority out of the way... Where are the facts????

  • @thisismetoday
    @thisismetoday 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1000

    I’ve just come back from SA. It was the first visit in my life. I was shocked by the level of crime, the lack of freedom to just walk around after the sun sets, the amount of places you cannot go into without being killed, and the absolute acceptance of this as the status quo by the general population. I was relieved being on the place back to Europe. I wish it would’ve been differently

    • @kria9119
      @kria9119 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +80

      It was already like that in 2016, when I visited, but I cannot imagine just how much more intense it is right now. I remember landing in Frankfurt and just..breathing a sigh of relief. I could once again walk in the street without the fear of horrible crime. A truse shame

    • @chrisvldz
      @chrisvldz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      I had a great time in Cape Town and Johannesburg, danced at night, safari, amazing museums, food, so much more culture than any Eurotrip people do over and over and over again.

    • @chrisvldz
      @chrisvldz 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@kria9119doesn't Frankfurt have horrendous drug abuse and prostitution around the main train station. Food in Germany is horrible

    • @MarquisVonLion
      @MarquisVonLion 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +93

      " the lack of freedom to just walk around after the sun sets," hahaha! sounds like France in the present state :

    • @frankez1975
      @frankez1975 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +86

      It’s the same in Chicago…..or any Democrat city

  • @FlyWithMe_666
    @FlyWithMe_666 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1828

    I’m European and worked in South Africa (Joburg/Sandton) in the financial sector for 2 years. I was surprised and impressed by the extremely high professional standards and technical expertise of my South African colleagues. Now, 7 years after my return to Europe, it makes a little sad to see the LinkedIn profiles of so many of my former colleagues, where the vast majority now works in Australia, Ireland or England. They have (had?) so much potential as a nation, but just had the ANC ruin it all. Once the smart ones start leaving, it may be a downward spiral.

    • @nobodynoone2500
      @nobodynoone2500 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +189

      Yup. Everyone competent leaves.

    • @vik914
      @vik914 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +140

      We were once a first world country.

    • @QuestionsIAskMyself
      @QuestionsIAskMyself 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Wow this is comment is so weird

    • @seneca983
      @seneca983 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +85

      @@QuestionsIAskMyself What's so weird about it?

    • @patpending8134
      @patpending8134 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@seneca983 Nothing. TH-cam is awash with idiots posting comments.

  • @markstarmer3677
    @markstarmer3677 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    That’s the inept ANC leadership for you. Similar to Zimbabwe and Haiti. Notice a pattern here ?

  • @johnwiebe4293
    @johnwiebe4293 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I know so many people that immigrated to the U.S. from South Africa. The situation could have been easily avoided if corruption wasn't such a big problem.

  • @fact6360
    @fact6360 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +963

    As a German, I lived in SA for 6 years. Spot on. The self destruction is insane

    • @fredshred5194
      @fredshred5194 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hahahahaha, coming from a German and the current state of affairs in Germany and your insane political leaders I'd say Germany and RSA very similar . Trying to ban political parties that you don't like ADF, scrapping nuclear energy plants and then letting Joes Biden blow up gas pipe lines providing cheap gas as it competes with US gas , and supporting a corrupt Nazi regime in Ukraine with funds and arms. mmmmm a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.

    • @distinkt88
      @distinkt88 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it is a self destruction. whites come, bring serious civilization and prosperity, they get docile, allow blacks to have power, and in a few decades everything crumbles. goes to show what happens when blacks rule a nation.

    • @VladVlad-ul1io
      @VladVlad-ul1io 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      May I ask why do you live there?

    • @fact6360
      @fact6360 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      @@VladVlad-ul1io my dad worked there. I was just a kid back in 2010

    • @drawingdead9025
      @drawingdead9025 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      And 100% predicted.

  • @leagueofotters2774
    @leagueofotters2774 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    "Gosh, we didn't see this coming"
    -said nobody, ever..

    • @carterthiessen2664
      @carterthiessen2664 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Ian Smith predicted everything in the 70s

  • @tommythecat4961
    @tommythecat4961 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I work with a girl from South Africa (incidentally, the most beautiful human being I've ever seen) and she had tears in her eyes while telling me about her country. Many thought 1994 would be the start of a bright future for everyone, instead it became a slow descent into madness and, crazy as it may seem, ended up making everyone's life worse, even for the blacks. But they keep voting the ANC because there is no other option (except the EFF which is way, waty worse) and now they all know it's a matter of time before it becomes Zimbabwe 2: Electric Boogaloo. A shame and a tragedy, really.

  • @familhagaudir8561
    @familhagaudir8561 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    South Africa simply transitioned to a rule under a population that dosen't know how it would have felt if it didn't have breakfest that morning.

  • @taidee
    @taidee 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +868

    I'm a black South African and appreciate how you have reported on this. It's neutral in opinion just abased on facts. I would dance my aging body half the day if ANC could finally be voted out, not just to see another party in place, but rather to see a democracy in action. They are no longer afraid of being caught out on a scandal, in a democratic society getting found out is supposed to cause fear as it should mean the impeding loss of your job but not with our politicians.

    • @jandejong2430
      @jandejong2430 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

      What you need is meritocracy. Difficult to regain once it's lost.

    • @lungalunga1470
      @lungalunga1470 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The solution is simple we need elect a white party and let whites do as they please white everything will be fine

    • @fransdebruijn6763
      @fransdebruijn6763 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      @@jandejong2430 Its easy to vote them out but to be replaced by what ?

    • @dirttracker7376
      @dirttracker7376 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      The a&c has never, nor will ever, have any sense of shame. They are oblivious to it, how else can they (openly) do such evil?

    • @crose7412
      @crose7412 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@fransdebruijn6763 The DA.

  • @jakes9711
    @jakes9711 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +457

    I moved back to South-Africa in 2020 hoping that I can contribute in its development, but it's a lost cause and has lead me to the conclusion that the country must burn down as we do with grass during the winter. I will leave the country permanently next year but will always have the memories of my youth to get me through the difficult times.

    • @lethunkosi7601
      @lethunkosi7601 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      I think we can agree that most South Africans have the desire or maybe the idea to leave, but I think to have emigration as an option is for the few - might even say it's a privilege that the average citizen does not have...All the best!

    • @user-kk4lw4mr6i
      @user-kk4lw4mr6i 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@lethunkosi7601well said yster

    • @kafkamatt
      @kafkamatt 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Exactly, why they have to burn all the grasslands down is just crazy. During winter in Gauteng the air quality is so bad you can hardly breathe. And then in Cape Town it's the same in summer when there's no wind. Eish...

    • @n30a
      @n30a 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Everyone who can leave, left or is leaving.

    • @TheSterlingArcher16
      @TheSterlingArcher16 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      South Africa is just returning to its natural state. Within 50 years the population will be back to living in grass huts like it was for thousands of years.

  • @banagan4604
    @banagan4604 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Ultimately the buck stops with the people, who keep voting in the ANC.

  • @matshagstrom9839
    @matshagstrom9839 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    The European culture has its flaws but European values does have some pretty strong advantages.
    How can one continent with soooo many resources made up of 54 countries fail in almost every single country. There is the one single obvious variable that is unmentionable.
    Haiti/DR is also a very interesting case study

    • @MayaMaya-tj7kw
      @MayaMaya-tj7kw หลายเดือนก่อน

      Dominican republic isn't white, it leans more into its amerindian values. Places like Zambia are boasted as the silicon valley of africa mostly because they have no resources Europeans want

    • @familhagaudir8561
      @familhagaudir8561 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Demographics is destiny. Someone telling you otherwise is lying to you, because the truth is "offensive".

    • @AbsentMinded619
      @AbsentMinded619 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Racists think their Whiteness makes them prosperous, but Western Europe was irrelevant for most of history. It’s Christianity, not White genetics, that made the West so successful and progressive, especially after the Reformation. And with the West becoming post-Christian, the playing field is evening out rapidly. We never had any reason to boast in ourselves.

    • @cebolenkosingcobo5122
      @cebolenkosingcobo5122 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      We have something called "ubuntu" in Zulu culture it means being respectful to others regardless of race or beliefs this concept existed years before Europeans first came onto South African soil.

    • @hydoffdhagaweyne1037
      @hydoffdhagaweyne1037 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +16

      ​@@cebolenkosingcobo5122 hhhh, your comment is hilarious dude, even ants have values like that. The thing is, does your value match your behaviour. Probably not.

  • @saraho92
    @saraho92 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +795

    Not so long ago, my father was speaking to a South African man who had moved to Ireland with his family. When asked what the main difference in life here was, he simply said it was the fact that his children could walk to school each day unaccompanied and without the threat of violence. It is such a shame. It is an absolutely breathtakingly beautiful country and anyone I know who has visited has been completely blown away by the stunning landscapes and kind, welcoming people. Devastating to see the country and her people in crisis.

    • @Byrzzaa
      @Byrzzaa 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      It's just so difficult to understand here in Europe (for the most part) that a child couldn't walk to school across a city center or across any possible area/neighbourhood. For a person like me who has lived whole life in Finland, it's truly unbeliavable but sad above all for sure.
      On average, the prevelance of crime have reduced around the world and the world is a safer place on average but the fact that globally there are countries that are going to worse direction, some with an alarming pace is just freakin depressing.

    • @TheCatLady65
      @TheCatLady65 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Typical racist white

    • @kukasr
      @kukasr 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TheCatLady65 Commie murderer. Pay for Yalta.

    • @andyvirus2300
      @andyvirus2300 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      Don’t worry thank to exactly what he did, things will change !
      South Africa won’t be in a better place, it’s just that Europe will follow.

    • @peterflohr7827
      @peterflohr7827 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      Time and again I read about the "kind, welcoming" people. Those kind, welcoming people keep voting the wrong party.

  • @bryonslatten3147
    @bryonslatten3147 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +117

    American here. I hired two South Africans last year to work on my house. They left their families' East Cape farms due to the impending collapse of SA. Both expressed great sadness at the loss of their way of life and having to travel the world for work. Their stories support everything I read here.

    • @eisbeinGermany
      @eisbeinGermany 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds,

  • @LeahInTheWild
    @LeahInTheWild 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I hope a miracle comes soon, I'm from Pretoria but I'm in America right now just to have a place to get out if south Africa goes into the dump, never in my life I thought this would ever happen (i am still young)

    • @paulvanniekerk3351
      @paulvanniekerk3351 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Hope you'll come back to Pretoria some day. If not, be blessed in your bew home.

  • @edjohn4590
    @edjohn4590 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Left that hell hole 6 years ago… what a ses pool…

  • @pandoraalberts5267
    @pandoraalberts5267 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +669

    I am old now. I am not going anywhere, my bones will lie in South Africa. But like almost ALL of my friends, our children and grandchildren have left for other more civilized countries. It's very sad to live on in a country that is lost, but our families are lost too.

    • @CoachmanHater
      @CoachmanHater 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

      I hope you don't get butchered in your own home❤

    • @pandoraalberts5267
      @pandoraalberts5267 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +72

      @@CoachmanHater Thank you! 🙏❤️ Me too. My more immediate concern is caring for my husband, who has dementia, and my rescue dogs. Veterinary care has become unaffordable, and there is much needless suffering.

    • @ow_su
      @ow_su 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@pandoraalberts5267I don't think that was meant to be nice

    • @CoachmanHater
      @CoachmanHater 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ow_su it absolutely was meant to be nice I feel deeply for the violently oppressed minority of South Africa. Self hating retards who make videos like this should be forced to live a year in johan

    • @pandoraalberts5267
      @pandoraalberts5267 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

      @@ow_su Social media is hard for oldies. I hope you are wrong, but...live and let live. It takes extra energy to assume hatred where there may be none. 🌞

  • @Ukie88
    @Ukie88 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +335

    One can tell a country’s well being by how many bars it has on its windows.

    • @ricksmith4736
      @ricksmith4736 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      LIke the blue cities in America.....

    • @coraltown1
      @coraltown1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@ricksmith4736 horse 💩 from trump 🤡

    • @katlegomoatshe1312
      @katlegomoatshe1312 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Like the slums in London

    • @goodbarbenie5477
      @goodbarbenie5477 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      With one exception my Mon Ami...I have also have one more😮 bar inside my house it's where I enjoy a few drinks in safety...😊😅😂...

    • @european-one
      @european-one 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      ​@@katlegomoatshe1312 where tf in London did you go?

  • @tyronedeasbrailsford951
    @tyronedeasbrailsford951 22 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    South Africa has gone the same way as Chicago, Detroit and New York who surprised

    • @DROGOC0P
      @DROGOC0P 20 วันที่ผ่านมา

      wonder what they have in common

  • @jasonpatterson2143
    @jasonpatterson2143 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Why not mention how Eskom went from zero rolling blackouts to daily due to the new government placing non-qualified idiots in charge of all aspects of the company.

  • @iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053
    @iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +409

    My wife and her parents left South Africa and came to the U.S. in 1995. They saw the writing on the wall early. They couldn't even sell their land or valuables. They just got some plane tickets, some suitcases, whatever money and possesions they could take, and just left. My father-in-law says leaving was the best decision he ever made in his life.

    • @bosshogster6715
      @bosshogster6715 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      My father-in-law has just left SA after living in Cape Town for over 40 years. He was fed up to the back teeth of all the crime, ANC corruption and ANC incompetence and felt he just had to get out. He’s now back in the UK and enjoying uninterrupted water and electricity supply! When he first moved to SA the rand was worth about 30p. It’s been on a slow decline ever since and now it’s worth about 5p and still depreciating. I really hope SA pulls out of it’s death spiral because it’s a beautiful country.

    • @iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053
      @iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

      @@bosshogster6715 Well, let's be honest. It's been all downhill since 1994, hasn't it?

    • @markcredit6086
      @markcredit6086 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      @@iamthem.a.n.middleagednerd1053 Yep what a suprise

    • @juneyshu6197
      @juneyshu6197 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Very glad to hear it.

    • @thomasstern6814
      @thomasstern6814 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      sounds racist to me. that was the most prosporous and positive time in south african historyv

  • @destinbenade7055
    @destinbenade7055 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +793

    As a South African we predict this state of arrairs more than 30 years ago but the rest of the world knew
    "better" and now everyone is shocked

    • @biltong5
      @biltong5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

      In truth, the world really didn't...doesn't...care. A brutal realization.

    • @jwhiskey242
      @jwhiskey242 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +96

      Well, anyone that wasnt worshipping at the racial equality alter knew better. What surprises me is that how many simple-minded white South Africans supported the changes.

    • @biltong5
      @biltong5 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jwhiskey242 The only 'simple-minded' folks here are the obvious, oblivious racists.

    • @Banzai29020
      @Banzai29020 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You're completely right. The meddling do gooders can now see what their moronic ideas have done to this country. I have a much stronger word for this than naivety.. Once the ANC took over and Mandela died, it was always going to go into rapid decline with massive rates of corruption... and ignorance.

    • @roundedges2
      @roundedges2 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      @@biltong5 If the world tried to do at say anything it would be called interference. It is up to SA to fix SA not world

  • @user-tf8vh8uw9f
    @user-tf8vh8uw9f หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Interesting how black majority rule always leads to the same conditions, whether it be in Haiti, Zimbabwe, South Africa or even cities like Baltimore.

    • @DebraGruber-hk7xl
      @DebraGruber-hk7xl 5 วันที่ผ่านมา

      yes yes yes I agree totally . Name. me one country where they've succeeded? It's horrific because the people are wonderful and deserve so much more but the governments always take the wrong road. Look at them now siding with Hamas?

  • @DameOfDiamonds
    @DameOfDiamonds 19 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Talk about the south african farmers

  • @Biloxiblues77
    @Biloxiblues77 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +598

    I left SA for good in 2007. The writing was on the wall. I still hope that one day my kids can maybe return but that also seems more and more unlikely. We haven't got much here in Spain but peace of mind is just priceless.

    • @orionxtc1119
      @orionxtc1119 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Spain has allowed millions of Africans in.,...

    • @eisbeinGermany
      @eisbeinGermany 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and to think the rest of the world is guilty of it happening by putting so much pressure on the regime with the anti-apartheid movement that they gave in, now today all the countries call it a 3rd world country, it was close to developing an atomic bomb that is how advanced the country was, ,was even building their own fighter jets and tanks and armored cars, and the helicopter of which other countries started to buy, not to speak of the R4/R5 rifles and the G5 canon which ranges was enormous, to think of its mineral wealth, gold copper coal tin aluminium platinum diamonds,

    • @carlosmango2341
      @carlosmango2341 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      spain we left . but s a we gladly left years ago. Gibraltar is a tax free zone for many things .

    • @drivenmad7676
      @drivenmad7676 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Africa is exactly how i expect it to be. A shit show.

    • @antman2826
      @antman2826 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Good move mate. Very sad. But you're right. Peace and stability is firm ground to move forward on. Being murdered by a bunch of african thugs doesn't sound like a good way to go.

  • @AmeenRidwan
    @AmeenRidwan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +659

    What's even more depressing about my country, Nigeria, is that at least in South Africa, with all the corruption and incompetence, they at least gave the data to be able to study and understand what's wrong.
    In Nigeria we don't. Basically every form of data collection accessible to the public is ridiculously unreliable.
    SA's eskom releases schedules of when they'll cut power. Nigeria's nepa doesn't even bother

    • @RC-rg3vz
      @RC-rg3vz 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Lemme give you a glimpse of the data.
      Corruption
      Citizens wont start a civil war for democracy

    • @millenniavisaspecialistskenya
      @millenniavisaspecialistskenya 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      You guys can move to Kenya 🇰🇪 🚚💪😊.

    • @castorchua
      @castorchua 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      @@millenniavisaspecialistskenya Kenya sounds good! Keep everyone on the continent at least!

    • @SuperAnimeking100
      @SuperAnimeking100 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      ​​@@millenniavisaspecialistskenyaI hear Rwanda is the big one to follow as the next rapidly growing economy world wide

    • @koryhardy9594
      @koryhardy9594 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I fear Nigeria is headed for a long time of stagnation n possible decline in economics at the rate it’s being managed, you said it all, basically everything is manipulated and lots of unreliable data. I fear for my country because no one says anything, instead we’re blinded by tribalism n ignorance, why corruption has always had a good hold in Nigeria, years of progress slowly eroding away in just a few years…
      I’m only 23, any Nigerian can confirm the drastic changes on the cost of living in the country over the last 20 years, one of the lowest life expectancy in the world despite being one of the biggest African economies. Pray for Nigeria, we’ll need it for th coming years

  • @stepho9999
    @stepho9999 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    It takes more then dancing around in the streets to run a country

  • @canadianlumberjack7642
    @canadianlumberjack7642 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +6

    *sips coffee with lights on and shrugs, zero concerns here*

  • @MrBikeagraman
    @MrBikeagraman 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    Let’s all be honest with ourselves. We all saw it coming when ANC took over in 1994. I remember telling my dad back then that it is guaranteed SA will end up being a 3rd rate country. I am not surprised at all by the current development.

  • @wihanuys
    @wihanuys 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +707

    In 1990, Eskom was the biggest producer of electricity in Africa, it was not built to service the white minority, it was built for a growing country, and with a lack of maintenance and corruption, the current government made it fall apart

    • @sugabelie8881
      @sugabelie8881 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Yeah I went to South Africa last last year, and I was very surprised that we will have power shortages

    • @nsh1980gmail
      @nsh1980gmail 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

      Can’t miss a single opportunity to suggest racism as the cause of everything

    • @wihanuys
      @wihanuys 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@nsh1980gmail not racism, just government, there's a massive difference, i believe there are better black leaders than the pathetic ones we have now

    • @Brysonhundley
      @Brysonhundley 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      @@nsh1980gmailyeah it'd be ridiculous to think that racism had an impact on the infrastructure of a country that was an apartheid state as recently as the 90s

    • @mtheranamtherana2182
      @mtheranamtherana2182 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      As far and deep as my memory serves me Eskom served the white minority i remeber those days having a wood stove you were considered rich by nabours who were struggling to buy one the only change came after ANC took power

  • @CameronBodenham
    @CameronBodenham หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    the only place with service delivery is the western cape there is still townships, but DA does not control those parts and the parts they do sometimes steal the resources for selling it to recycle centers.

  • @user-hn7my8ow4s
    @user-hn7my8ow4s 28 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    Blacks have completely stripped South Africa's rail system, and thus, the system has shut down.

    • @Ritesh-yy1zr
      @Ritesh-yy1zr 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Yep, now the national roads are taking a beating due to all these trucks

  • @hughjass1044
    @hughjass1044 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1060

    I lived is a small rural town in central Alberta, Canada for a few years in the late 2000s. In Alberta's wild west, boom-&-bust, oil driven economy, it's not unusual to see large numbers of people from outside the province coming there to work; people from other parts of Canada mostly but also plenty from other countries too. Lots of money to be made in the boom cycles.
    But I did find it peculiar to see such a high number of South Africans in such a small town. At one point, I counted 3 doctors, 2 lawyers, 1 dentist, 1 civil engineer and 1 geologist and those were only the ones I knew about.
    I asked one of the doctors at the clinic one day (who was black, BTW) and he asked me if I'd ever heard tell of a place called Zimbabwe. I said I had and he further asked me if I knew its story. I replied that I knew the broad strokes but not the finer details. He said that Zimbabwe used to be one of the wealthiest countries in all of Africa. Horribly racist yes, but still wealthy.
    He then said that South Africa was following in exactly the same footsteps as Zimbabwe did and would soon suffer the exact same fate and anyone with anything at all to offer; wealth, talent, whatever, was getting the hell out and going wherever they could. He said that he figured the country had about 20 years before it collapsed entirely. He's proving to have been pretty accurate.

    • @Yuenpl
      @Yuenpl 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      Did he say WHY Zimbabwe declined? Just wondering.

    • @splashafrica
      @splashafrica 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

      I'm q south african who grew up on Zimbabwe border now in my 30s I'm familiar with both countries stories comparing SA with Zim is something we did all my life at 1st the comparison seemed alarmist although we agreed on the decline this was prior to the world Cup ultimately the country does slip but its slipping in a very different way the comparison is lazy south africa has much more to deal with Zimbabwe simply needs to fall in line with global financial regulations qnd the world will rebuild it but south africa needs to retune every single sector everything is stresses from utility to skills available to competency to skills transfer where tr labour force is available and willing south africa is also massive its one of the biggest countries both in perms of population and landmass so it will take the world's combined effort to fix her up

    • @JohnFromAccounting
      @JohnFromAccounting 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Yuenpl The evil and oppressive Mugabe dictatorship, which made incompetent decision after incompetent decision.

    • @growlith6969
      @growlith6969 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +182

      ​@@Yuenplthe quiet part out loud is that there were highly productive white people in SA, reverse racism started to take place and they were replaced in their roles or outright intimidated into leaving by people who were less productive. The whole country had a large net outflow of these productive people and everything from wealth to talent simply evaporated, leaving a power vacuum filled by corrupt and incompetent leadership and workers. If you are wondering why there is a giant gaping hole in the "but why" part of this video, it's because nobody wants to come out and say that apartheid crowd might have been cruel, but they were efficient.

    • @infinityslibrarian5969
      @infinityslibrarian5969 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@growlith6969black people say that the apartheid goverment was more efficient all the time. They are well aware of it. Most of them lived through it. Which is also why they're so angry at the wealth inequality and created reverse racism.
      Personally I'm happy that we don't have as many SJW's here, as they'd just keep pocking healing wounds and make everything worse.

  • @user-ev6js7sk8v
    @user-ev6js7sk8v 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +668

    My mother vacationed in Jamaica in the late 50's, so I grew up looking at her travel pictures. When I saw it for real in 2010 I was shocked at the conditions. I did some research and found out that when the Jamaicans kicked out the British and Chinese they quickly discovered just how difficult it is managing an agriculture based economy that requires lots of knowledge and experience. Jamaica is in even worse condition today.

    • @Raven72
      @Raven72 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      But they smoke pot like there’s no tomorrow.

    • @helloworld7818
      @helloworld7818 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Ignorance exists. The reason the best universities are selecting people, it's because they're teaching.

    • @EstherGodia
      @EstherGodia 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      So sad condition

    • @redfred452
      @redfred452 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      south Africa was destroyed when the black people took over, they are incompetent and need to beg the white people to come back and rule them again, so south Africa can become happy and healthy again !!!

    • @VelkePivo
      @VelkePivo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

      The average IQin Jamaica is 75. Hard not to see it as hopeless

  • @charlesmckenzie5250
    @charlesmckenzie5250 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    Name just 1. nation, country, province, state, city or town that has been improved when this happens.

    • @UnfunnyDaffenDales98775
      @UnfunnyDaffenDales98775 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Cape towns white communities

    • @BurningMad
      @BurningMad หลายเดือนก่อน

      Singapore. Mauritius. Bangladesh. All three places improved when they stopped being exploited by others.

    • @juannaym8488
      @juannaym8488 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Namibia
      Botswana
      Some black lead communities in the 30s-50s in the US
      Some West African nations are on a pretty good track, like Ghana
      When you look at the histories of every nation that "this" happened to, you will very soon see that the reasons are a little more complex

    • @The_Reality_Filter
      @The_Reality_Filter 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@juannaym8488 Like Ghana hey? This Ghana? Violent crime has been on the rise since 2018 when record started. This includes murder and
      non-negligent manslaughter, sexual assault, armed robbery, and aggravated assault. Reported violent crimes increased by 40.8% from 2020 to 2021. Deaths associated with violent crimes also increased by 53.7%. In Figure 2 below the top three violent crimes reported in 2021 were murder/manslaughter, armed robber and aggravated assaults.

    • @user-dl2iy5yv2k
      @user-dl2iy5yv2k 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I can name one at the bottom of every demographic scale. Every demographic scale every time. Worldwide.
      That much I can do

  • @user-jf6kd4tz5g
    @user-jf6kd4tz5g 26 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    apartheid was the only thing that allowed SA to become a first world country and the most developed in the continent. since apartheid ended the country has fallen to ruin.

  • @Strngbd
    @Strngbd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +515

    The ANC is arguably the biggest organised crime syndicate in the world... Thank you Sam for trying to bring this topic to the world stage... it brings literal tears to my eyes. I have all but lost hope. I will still vote though. Maybe it might change for my kids one day...

    • @growlith6969
      @growlith6969 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Except he glossed over the corruption, the massive country destroying corruption.

    • @manganvbg90
      @manganvbg90 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      CCP is largest i would say, just more successful

    • @deadmananchor5363
      @deadmananchor5363 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wrong!..biggest criminal syndicate in the world 🌍 beyond ANY DOUBT is the Vatican

    • @taterrhead
      @taterrhead 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      it is complete naivety && 'white guilt' to blame a political party when this was 99% to happen regardless after 'apartheid' was removed .... every single time in history blacks then immediately genocide the 'minority' of their country

    • @ever55
      @ever55 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@manganvbg90 xD

  • @SocratesAth
    @SocratesAth 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +650

    People have been voting for the ANC about twenty years longer than they should have.

    • @goodfes
      @goodfes 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

      Absolutely, anywhere in the democratic world and a political party stays in power for 30 years, no wonder it is a mess. Very sad to see the decline.

    • @clown134
      @clown134 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      and been allowing rich investors to control everything

    • @pieterniemandt1098
      @pieterniemandt1098 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@clown134You wanna chase the rich investors away? Communism never worked anywhere.

    • @RazorsharpLT
      @RazorsharpLT 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Uh. No
      Singapore? @@goodfes

    • @joetrump2983
      @joetrump2983 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@RazorsharpLT Singapore? Nice joke, look at the political crisis they having in june when dozens of MPs resigned and their ruling party is facing a succession crisis.

  • @stevendee6800
    @stevendee6800 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    SA is what Britain will be like in 20 years.

    • @ReasonAboveEverything
      @ReasonAboveEverything 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yep, and they Will absolutely blame you for it.

    • @Carewolf
      @Carewolf 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Only if you keep voting Tory.

  • @howardsontz983
    @howardsontz983 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    People get the government they deserve.

    • @AshkanPacino13
      @AshkanPacino13 หลายเดือนก่อน

      exactly, that's why you're getting the government that is replacing you every day.

  • @gabrielfraser2109
    @gabrielfraser2109 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +611

    I'm a South African farmer currently doing my paperwork to work in the US, 9 months a year. At this point this is my best option to secure my family's needs. I completely blame the government. Everything is getting worse.

    • @theloniuspunk383
      @theloniuspunk383 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      you didn't defend your nation, nations are a people, different people - different nation, btw USA is not a nation its a state run by and for jews. Great job!

    • @neo4reo
      @neo4reo 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Nothing to do with the fact that we a;lso have a dispropotionate part of the land and economy, about 90% -that we have not been willing to equitably share or allow others o articipate in. Nothing of that sort at all.

    • @theloniuspunk383
      @theloniuspunk383 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      D E L U S I O N@@neo4reo

    • @handrew311
      @handrew311 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@neo4reoWhatever you share with the “others” will inevitably rot. Self hating Whites are a cancer.

    • @nicholaswilson7734
      @nicholaswilson7734 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      Met many South Africans working custom harvest crews. Welcome to the states. You’re some of the hardest workers I’ve ever met.

  • @Infindibulator1
    @Infindibulator1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1072

    I’m a South African now living in Canada, IMO this is a fairly broad overview of the most visible systemic issues plaguing my home country. The root causes however are complex and deep. Corruption, incompetence and poor stewardship has brought the country to its knees. It is heartbreaking to see so much potential being frittered away.

    • @nevrrcared1600
      @nevrrcared1600 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      They’ve impacted the world

    • @martinsmolik2449
      @martinsmolik2449 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      still, 23 minute videos can't usually do more than the broad overview - especially if they can't assume that the viewer knows the basic context.

    • @tubester4567
      @tubester4567 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There was wholesale robbery of funds by officials. Government and power officials took out multi-million dollar loans from Europe and World Bank to upgrade the power grid, then they stole all that loan money for themselves and they let the power grid collapse.. It was fraud on a massive scale. State sponsored fraud. Corruption is rife across Africa..

    • @FeintMotion
      @FeintMotion 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@davidlightman9551 boer posting

    • @lukeperry8271
      @lukeperry8271 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      @FeintMotion​ is he wrong? And if he is how? Instead of pointing out his background why not create a better argument

  • @gernster100
    @gernster100 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    asking a immigrant south African man I had hired what he thought Africa needed and without pause he said "bring back the white man to govern".

  • @scorpiovenator_4736
    @scorpiovenator_4736 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    South Africa Abroad: Were kind of cool, at home: