The Most Broken Economy on Earth
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- Why is South Africa still so broken 30 years after Apartheid?
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I'm Singaporean but my Mum is white-South African and every time I visit South Africa I always find it so dystopian and depressing that when you exit the airport you have to drive past miles of the poorest slums you will ever see in your life until you reach the white suburbs which have houses better than anything I've ever seen in a country like Australia or Britain.
Do you live in Singapore
Keep in mind that you’re in one of the wealthiest countries in Africa. Maybe try going closer to home? Have you ever driven around Manila outskirts
@@benchoflemons398 Those are shocking… you leave the airport in Manila, and you’ll literally see people living under bridges. The contrasts in Manila are also shocking.
Yeah...
you literally live in singapore most cities on earth are dogshite dirtpoor in comparison
You know a situation is bad in a country if one of its good things is "it has a beautiful landscape", it feels like that's the go-to compliment for failing countries.
Yeah, they always say a certain country has beautiful people landscapes weather when they don’t have anything nice to say about it and it’s always the most corrupt countries that get the “beautiful and honest people” compliment
It really does though, which is why I don’t want to leave.
It's often the only compliment.
Like Switzerland is beautiful, and has a functioning economy.
That's all it has to offer.
It really does have an extraordinarily beautiful landscape. I was lucky enough to visit South Africa last summer for a field trip, I spent a week on a private game reserve, so thankfully didn't see any of the bad parts of the country. The only thing I did notice was that all of the "important" people at the game reserve were white, whilst the general staff like cooks and cleaners were all black, which I suppose is a hold over from the education problems apartheid caused.
the only think I can compliment my home country on (South Africa) is its nice weather and beautiful mountains that give great views with the beautiful forests. But besides that the country is a absolute waste, There are parts where you would think the land is living after a nuclear fallout while most other parts look like complete dumps.
As a South African I wanna say this is an amazing explanation of our problems and is spot on.
I agree but the way he said Soweto had my traumatized 😮😂
@@jubileemkhwanazi436and the way he said Ramaphosa😂
Vote pls
@@human1043 and Afrikaaans
No.
I’m South African, and I am so embarrassed about how disappointing our land is. Especially seeing how other people see our land.
Wait till they see that "true" africans (yk what I mean) get payed higher than whites
I've heard people praise the great open plains of Indiana while I get awestruck by mountains
If you live there, you're just use to it i guess, new things excite people
I am visiting Cape Town in March is it that bad? Looks ok to me lol
@@aynrandfan7454 the nature here is amazing, if you ever go on another trip to Sa then you should go to vaalwater
@@kumeater I only have 5 days in cape town before boarding a 21 cruise around west coast of Africa up to Barcelona … next time I will visit the interior and the national parks for sure
“A bad economy and weak governments meant that the people are a little unhappy.”
So when a small angry man with a silly mustache came along, and said that he could fix everything, the people loved him
He’s spitting facts
has hoser deleted future of Pakistan video?
@Adam S.
ever heard of the EFF
I wonder who the next mustache man is going to be
I live in Gauteng South Africa , born after the apartheid era ended almost 30 years ago . What I can say is the only thing that the ANC government is interested in is enriching themselves and living like kings while its people fight for scraps . Most live in similar , if not worse conditions than decades ago . "Apartheid" has since become a scape goat for their shortfalls
Apartheid was an easy way to keep things from getting out of hand, it is definitely used for a scapegoat.
While it did have it's problems it did a VERY good job at keeping the peace for the most part which was it's entire point
It still blows my mind that while people mention that it had 4 different group distinctions not many ever take the time to look and see that there were more than 4 districts. Meanwhile everyone pretends that the current state of things with the ANC is any different than if South Africa had never had the english come to it at all and the Boers went further north naturally; looking at Africa most nations are more or less in the same boat as SA so I think it would more or less be the same but with quite a bit fewer luxuries. Stay safe friend
@@victorkreig6089 found the white supremacist
Apartheid cannot be justified under any circumstances Victor given that it denied dignity to over 80% of the population. The peace you alluding to was nothing but superficial in that there can never be peace without dignity. As for ANC, we are agreed that this party just like the majority of liberation parties in Africa have failed thier people.
I would also mention that the indignity that came with apartheid is actually the one that has made ANC win elections since independence because the majority of the voters today, experienced apartheid first hand and will not vote otherwise for fear of it resurfacing. South Africa will experience a government change only after the so called 'born frees' become majority voters which is some decades away.
@@Ugly_Peace the ANC is a terrorist organization that murdered children
And you are 100% wrong, the segregation kept the country together and in working order it is far FAR worse now than it ever was back then
But that's okay I'm sure you'll have an epiphany during the next rolling blackout
@@Ugly_Peace "some decades away" south africa will be in ruins by then
as a south african i’m always curious to see how international media outlets and creators will cover our country and i’m impressed by the accuracy and balanced viewpoint this video provides.
it is a really sad thing that over here we have some of the wealthiest and poorest of people co-existing within the echoes of wider inequality. it does create tension and our tenuous political landscape only heightens that.
I'd hardly call it balanced. The narrative around the history of South Africa is quite astoundingly anti-white.
Firstly, South Africa wasn't a country before white Europeans arrived, it was just a vast swathe of land. Largely unoccupied. Then to highlight "inequality" after white Europeans built everything and made the country rich-- why would other Africans and people living on neighboring land be entitled to what white Europeans had built? There would be no "inequality" if white Europeans hadn't arrived and built everything because everyone would still be dirt poor and living in mud huts.
There's now been 30 years of black rule and "inequality" hasn't changed and the basic infrastructure the whites built has fallen apart. This despite the fact that when the whites were in power they were subject to sanctions and economic aggression from all quarters, while during black rule it's been the opposite-- the west has been desperate to invest and make the country a success.
The weirdest thing is talking to tourists who visit the wealthy parts of Cape Town, and assume that the rest of this god-forsaken country is exactly like that, when in reality, most of us black folk live in squalor
@@bohlalemofokeng2333 exactly. they’ll avoid those areas like the plague and not get the full picture of what’s really going on here
this is the exact response i was going to give. i live in Joburg as well. i still do believe this country can become great one day. the Rally will occur one day in the Future. be Blessed All!
Xenophobia against other Africans is as a result of this frustration.
As a south African born Kiwi, there is a LOT of reasons why my entire family left to come to NZ instead. If you have the money you get out. I was way too young to understand at the time but the stories from my dad, my sisters and their families has very much cemented my lack of interest in moving back to my home country.
The problem is demographically most people who have that money to get out and can weather the red tape of immigrating (favorable passports and other resources like family with similar access) is also inherently unequal, so for the majority of us South Africans (esp black & poor) simply don't have the option to leave or even rebuild
@@lusandantintili8668 So at least the inequality within south africa gets less
@propagandalf123 thats adorably naive, not investing in a country will always lead to further inequality especially for ghe ppl who have no fighting chance to get out. Its the market.
Glad to have you. Just please don't vote for greens and commies or nz will go down the drain as well.
As a South African, this video is 100% facts! I think the only way to remove most of the corruption is to vote for any party other than the ANC. The ANC has become too comfortable. But what do I know, I’m apart of the unemployed youth in South Africa and my main goal is to leave this country with my parents and friends!
It seems like we all want to leave. Everyone in my immediate circle is going to college/University just so they can get qualifications that allow them to emigrate. Mainly to Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc
There is no future here so the only option is to leave maybe one day this country will succeed but time with tell when it will happen
Yes but also we must not vote for the EFF they would make the country even worse
The IQ required to work any job in civilization is 85 per project 100,000. The average black IQ is 70 in sub saharan africa. Something like 80% of black sub saharans are mentally disabled. Its really that simple, they didnt' even have the wheel before contact. And remember IQ is majority hereditary, more genetic than height.
@TheGlassesPro I will also vote when the time comes but as I said I’m avoiding the ANC. My parents will also avoid the ANC even though we are apart of the black population! DA seems to be a decent choice and the EFF is just a choice I don’t think will sit well.
The electricity outages really fascinate me. I live in Ukraine and the russians are specifically targeting our power grid and infrastructure with the air strikes. Despite this, in most cities the outages only took about four-six hours a day and when the air defence improved the outages disappeared completely. How corrupt the government should be when they can't maintain a steady supply of electricity in a peaceful and devoloped (at least by African standards) country?
Not only that, but their power utility company, Eskom, was seen as the BEST IN THE WORLD only about 20 years ago😂
How they fucked that up is beyond me
@@MaximumMatador you mean before it catered for everyone.
The truth is that South Africa is not even the top 100 most corrupt. The corruption is considered average to low, which is why we haven't been sanctioned. The real reason for power blackouts is because during apartheid only white areas had electricity and when anc took over they had the task of borrowing billions of rands to improve eskom and try to cater to the rest of the country which has not been very successful.
every European with a few braincells has left that country. They cant just replace all of that with murder and expect the electricity to come on.
People don't understand there's 10,000's of people leeching off the grid with shotty wiring
As a South african i am very glad to see someone describe our problems so well
Fun fact!
After Nelson Mandela’s release. He visited Glasgow, Scotland’s largest city. To thank them for their independent support a decade earlier by being the first to offer him complete safety if he ever needed it. During his visit ,He was brought to a street in the city centre with his name on it. When he asked why they had named a street after him they answered by pointing out a building on the street and saying “that used to be the South African embassy, we thought that it would be really funny that anytime they had to send something out with their address on it they had to write your name every single time, including letters from the South African government”
And that’s the funniest shit I’ve ever heard
BASED
@@hoangquanle3310 supporting a terrorist is based to you
Oh my, that is amazing. Way better than just, "to honor you," it was "to embarrass your enemies."
In Czech Republic the russian embassy is on the "Heroes of Ukraine" street lol
@@SirSpruce1478 hehehehe. Now thats are humiliating for moskals for sure)
The fact that I started typing this, had my power cut off then retyped this 2 hours later to post it, just shows how "great" my country is.
I’m off in one hour sigh.
@@Tokolos POV : your power stays on till 3am
A company that sells electricity to its customers, knows they have to buy the product whether they want to or not can make their slogan "nobodys perfect"
💩😳
Same thing right now.
As a South African who grew up in the 2000s I think it's valuable for my peers to experience a breakdown of South African national dynamics from an external independent source like this because this is as honest and factual of a review of our country we will get, what is served in the media is nothing but outrage fuel and political lies, our home is messed up and we need to be this informed if we hope to even try fixing it.
You guys need revolution
@@madhavmathur4008 They already had one, the ANC is the revolutionary government.
@@madhavmathur4008 they already had a revolution.
More than one if you count the white South Africans
Spot on im from Zimbabwe but I studied in sa its like a second home to me
Don't loose hope in democracy! if your politicians fail you, it is time to take the matters to the streets
This video is just so perfect in describing South Africa's sinking ship. I feel like as a young person south Africa's state can also be such a daunting thing to look at South Africa and think how will i grow as an individual or how would i even look after my family if i had one😢 it's just depressing n seems hopeless
As a south african youth, it is it's super depressing :'D 👍
Sending blessing to you I’ve been considering visiting your country but not where most tourists go I’ll be with someone most of the time they’ve tought me about how to conduct myself there
We must look at the future of this nation with hope lest we want to grow indifferent and hapless to the situations, the fact that we have the ability to even access the internet leaves us with great responsibility to make micro changes within SA . Fight however u can, however you are willing to, but dont be a hopeless youth
As a young person you ned to learn your history... The ANC, for all my hatred of it, has pulled out more white people out of poverty in 30 years than the racist, mass-murdering, human-rights violating National Party scum would have even in another 60 yers (IMF, World Bank< and even CIA world fact book - and even the OECD, and some investment banks like JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, UBS and MunichRe)... don't take my word for it!!! But feel free to live to a shithole somewhere in the West where you think you will be better able to take care of your family (as in a country where a secretary/receptinist) can affrod to hire a domestic worker, gardener, take their children to school for free and still have a government stipend (peanuts as it is, but I bet there's a lot of Westerrn countries who'd love their Govt's to give them $20 per month when school, electricity and water are already free or heavily subsidised depending on income bracket... But go on, leave!!!
At the age of 17 I've experienced 3 hijacks, many shootings and racial discrimination and in terms of monetary standards my family is well off and I still experienced these things. And I live in a city where the crime rate is not as high and day by day its getting worse and the disparity between cities is crazy. (For the South African's: Eskom is n poes.)
Are black people the problem?
Which city??
If its near jozy, then you should know they are called Amapara-para
@@neonik6204 Gqberha 😭
Though I haven’t been back home in almost 10 years, the simple fact that we had to pay for a private security company to act as police in our neighborhood sounds super dystopian to me
You're one of the lucky ones who got out. Hopefully I'll join you once I graduate
Lol...
In Nigeria you we have vigilantes that we pay for our protection.
But they usually last no less than 2 months as they either clash with our very corrupt police or kill some random dude...
Yeah...
@@TheStickman419 Nigeria never ceases to amaze me
That happened to some places in america
@@frederickvonabel6349 Yeah. It's shameful but the only thing my country's government excels at, is to find new and creative ways to disappoint its citizens.
It’s sad when an alien ship hovering over one of their major city’s only makes things slightly worst
District nine?
Oh my god you're right...Jesus that movie is scary in how it portrays south African corruption. Yeah, shits still fucked as it was before the slimes came in that movie. The aliens would've been better off landing in Mauritius 😂
@@georgerockwell6124Yep
@@admech590 also something to keep in mind, because of the aliens there was likely a surge of new forms of income in the area, granted most of it not legal
Also 1/6 of the population has HIV and the ANC has sometimes made this crisis worse
Edit: 13.7% for the whole population, 19.5% for those aged 15-49
I love your off the cuff and creative, and comedic style. Definitely makes learning the history way more enjoyable.
I remember this story about Jacob Zuma. The guy was allotted funds to upgrade the security at his house to protect against the rebels. After the upgrades, some people came to see what he had done exactly. The people saw a giant swimming pool at his house. He was asked why he had a pool built.
He said it was a fire safety device.
That's funny.😄
As a South African it's really depressing what's happened to our nation, I fought in the Border War and every day I question if it was worth it. The nation has become to corrupt and violent that I eventually bought a shotgun just for my safety, no person in a good nation should have to sleep with a loaded shotgun under there bed fearing for there lives that they might be murdered in there sleep.
I agree. This country has gone down a deep hole
@@Woistwahrheit Yeah it's managed to go through rock bottom
Wow is it really that bad there? I wish the best of luck to your country, I could never imagine what people living in South Africa have to experience due a to corrupt and racist government
Yup its a shame about the hordes of low IQ basketballs
Well i want to leave the country when im done with high school but i still love this country even if we have a shit government the country is a beautiful place with great people but is controlled by thugs
I have a friend in South Africa, and in his words: "Our government is a bunch of corrupt idiots running an idiot country."
That's just not true!! A circus run by clowns - yes!!
That's most developed countries too lol, it's just less fucked, more covert and higher stakes (white collar crime on much bigger scales)
Black rule in a nutshell.
@@TeikonGomsomeone didn't watch the video
@@etoyoshimura301 Someone didn't open their eyes.
As a South African , this is so true .So sad ,
As a South African...comments like this, and aa couple of hundred others on here... Tell me exactly what a HIGHLY IGNORANT POPULATION WE ARE... Don['t know much about the state of the world, the state of other countries corruption, how crumbling the so-called West's infrastructure is, and how much so many other ALLEGEDLY INDUSTRIALISD countries have it worse than us... The greatest triumph of the Western Institution (if we can call the West an INSTITUTION) has been to convince the AFRICANS that they arent shit and will never amount to anything and they're inferior to the West... Meanwhile... The Weat is falliong apat and behind, and needs Africans to believe they need the West becaue the West runs on African resources!!! you should go look at the amount of development happening in Africa, and how much is falling apart in the WEST!!!!
I visited Cape Town, the most memorable thing i saw was a really nice well looked after golf course with an 6 foot high barbed wire fence, and across the road under a bridge, a homeless man living in a shack built out of rubbish. It’s the answer to what if we ‘fixed’ our social problems by building massive security fences.
it depresses me as a South African to see something like this. I am incredibly well off, and I go to school with kids who have next to nothing. The state of our country disgusts me
South Africa should divide into its constituent populations, not necessarily white and black, but those who will work hard to better their land and those who will not work hard, but want things for free. The ANC should be outlawed - they have brought us all to this!
@@samuelross9884 You see Sam people like you don't understand the severity of what you are actually saying, if it weren't for the like-minded people of the ANC, we would have ended up with a country that couldn't even be called one anymore, but then again they are the reason we face most of our problems today, but we cannot put the blame solely on them alone. And what your suggesting here that we should 'divide' when we are already so divided...You my friend deserve a Darwin Award.
@Mykel Putting the blame on the most skilled and productive part of the population is the Zimbabwe strategy. Worked great for them... South Africa is sliding toward similar policies though, and murders of whites are increasing leading them to leave resulting in brain drain.
@@samuelross9884 this retarded way of thinking is what is keeping south africa behind, which country has improved by "dividing"?
@@mykel9834 Thank you. I understand this will be difficult, but the end in sight is worth it.
Just a note, 2-Hour loadshedding isn't a thing anymore, in the 'burbs or the townships. It's typically between 8 and 12 hours a day now - only getting worse. If you don't have an inverter/generator or solar on your premises, you're basically screwed.
Hopefully some NGO sells solar systems for cheap
@@cgmason7568 china
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 definitely not an NGO and definitely has too much involvement in Africa
*INTERMITTENTLY.
That's an important fact that South Africans like to omit when complaining about loadshedding to foreigners.
The ANC inherited Eskom with the most reliable electricity and the least expensive electricity in the world. And now you have electricity for less than half the day.
thank you for making this video!!
This is so true once people tried to rob my house and the thing was police didn't do anything about it
My dad immigrated from South Africa and it does suck. Poverty is at every corner and crime is in its shadow. Really gives me an appreciation for the peace and prosperity present in my home country of Canada.
again you are lucky to be in a certain place in canada. most people in canada are poor lol
@@MrWeenuk21what?? You need some perspective in what poverty is. Canadas median population are INCREDIBLY well off. “mOsT cAnAdIaNs ArE pOoR”
You're white i presume
hehe housing goes brrrrr
@@MrWeenuk21 OK but being poor in SA hits a little different
As a South African, our country is dead. With the constant electrical blackout, to the extent we sometimes only get 10hrs of electricity a day, we cannot do business on an international platform
How is the ANC still in power, if there is this tangible legit problem that other parties can point to? Don't they lose popularity because the country is stil in shambles 30 years after apartheid?
I mean, all i had to do if i was the head of a political party in south africa would be:"Look at the daily blackouts. Thats the fault of the government. My party can fix it" and then i'd get a lot of votes right?
I'm not from south africa, so i don't know a lot about it. How has the ANC managed to stay in power? Is it just because of the popularity of their former leader Nelson Mandela?
@@MrXandervm black votes are the majority, blacks love ANC because it too is black.
@@MrXandervm they dont care about fixing it, they only care about their hate of apartheid and whites.
@@MrXandervm Because the DA doesnt want the number 1 position. They know they will be blamed for the ANCs failure like they blame the ANC for apartheids failures.
The loadshedding crisis has been a problem for nearly 20 years and will not be solved in the next 5 and probably not even 10 years. The ANC has screwed out country for at least two election cycles. So even if the DA won, they wouldnt be able to save country in time, all the while ANC is now blaming them.
There are alternatives to relying on Eskom
This is one of the funniest educational videos I’ve ever seen. Keep it up!
You got me with the power going out bit
As a South African my self you know your country is doing well when most peoples goal is to leave it
I think that's 90% of countries in today's world.
@@ik2254 90%??
@@IllinoisCountryball 90% of residents in the world want to move somewhere else.
Like, literally, anywhere apart from Canada, US, Japan and North-western europe people live way more poorer
@@ik2254 I think it’s more like 40% - 50%
@@IllinoisCountryball COUNTRIES, not people. There are ~200 countiries in the world. And only like 20 are decent: Japan, Canada, USA, France, GB, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Austria, Australia, New Zeland. Maybe I forgot a couple, but everywhere else is a poor shithole, where you make pennies on dollar that you would make, in USA, for example. OR a dictatorships with questionable future, like Saudi Arabia and UAE or Kuwait.
As a South African, this is all straight up facts. Things are really going south for us, but at least more people around the world are seeing what's going on.
@@caleb-- And the not white?
@@caleb-- I’m one that emigrated out of there along with my family. Best decision we ever made. We took our work ethic/skills elsewhere and is currently living a life we never dreamed of. South Africa will be the next Zimbabwe mark my words
@@beano6992 you mean Next Venezuela?
@@caleb-- thats an opinion...
@@caleb-- So tell me, please: What have they been in the past? Suppressed by a racist white regime?
10:33 As a South African, I was watching this with the lights off, and this black screen gave me such a fright making me think it was actually loadshedding lol😂
Nelson mandela said:"Blamin things on the past does not make them better" maybe we should not blame all that is wrong on the past and move forward
Okay settler
He was also a prisoner for a reason
To move forward we need a growing economy...to build a growing economy we need the land... Have white people not understaood the relationshiop between land and commerce...Anf the fact that the oppressed, whom the land was stolen form, can't do anything economically without land... Do you think we're alchemists...The land was taken in the pst...without it there is no future as there is no economy... Don't you get it... Again the land was TAKEN IN THE PAST AND WITHOUT IT THERE IS NO FUTURE... BASIC ECONOMIC...or have you never once read an economic book or even a bank brochure on a bond!???!
I am from Brazil, which is South Africa's biggest trade partner in Latin America, this is a sad reality of such a beautiful African country. I can't believe so many people in there have voted for ANC not knowing it is to blame for the most part of corruption in South Africa, and there are also political lies, really poor shanty towns, unbelievably high crime rates, and many other issues they should fix. How unfortunately dystopian.
The DA keep pushing out Black politicians, and the EFF are just plain
racist. Most South Africans are Black, they want to see Black South
Africans in charge. When the DA starts supporting Black South African
politicians, Black South Africans will vote for them.
@@jasonhaven7170 This also hurts to hear, but sadly, it is true, too.
@@lucasthegreat122 If the DA tried harder to be supportive of their Black members, they could win the election.
They vote knowing it's corrupt, they just believe that the other parties are worse. The main competitors are the DA and the EFF. The DA is basically toned down apartheid and the EFF are upstarts that will cause even more unrest than the ANC given that most of their politicking includes political party members and voters looting.
Most of South Africa’s population is really poor/unemployed but they are net beneficiaries of state subsidies or social welfare. As in, they have to deal with a shitty life as a result of the corruption and maladministration but they get free money every month. So they reason that if this welfare went away, they’d have nothing so they reward the party giving them money.
I just came back from SA. Joberg in particular and you fail to stress the crime. Part of the reason the rail system doesn't work is because people have stolen the tracks for scrap. They have completely stopped caring about the impact of their actions and only think about the next meal or in some cases new trainers.
New trainers? This isn’t America 😅 we have illegal foreigners who steal them to sell them for food! The poor are desperate and I don’t think mocking them makes you a good judge of character
@Lets Play Minecraft I’m glad that the Philippines doesn’t have this issue. Philippines literally have a new Japanese created underground subway to be opened in 2026😂
I got 9 foot walls, electric fence with barbed wire, private security, burglar bars, with panic alarm.
This S.A. Security Package will be coming to European Cities in the next 10 years.
Yeah following the Muslims.
@@peterjackson6700 smartest comment lol. In Europe, It's always mostly Whites who being jobless and knife-toting thugs for such burglars crap Statically...
Use your brain 🧠, buddy.. don't drunk and smoke weed
IT SUCKS WHEN YOU HAVE TO FIRE UP THE GENERATOR JUST TO POWER THE ELECTRIC FENCE LOL
@@daggggy We are on the new "Load Limiting" pilot program from Eskom. Basically, they only cut power from Stage 5 upwards. So we haven't had power cuts in a long time now since it when loadshedding is happening, they cap you at 2400w, which is good enough for tv, fence, lights, fans, kitchen appliances etc.
They are likely going to expand this program. Works very well.
It's there already...but don't blame the immigrants from Africa or the Muslims as you hope we will read the implication... Rather, see the gangs operating in Europe and their brutality and violence...but have to love the European media's narrative of Europe and never reporting anything bad about Europe thus convincing the White global diaspora that all is lovely and a panacea over there...unless the Beards and black-heads ruin it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m a South African and even though my country is so incredibly messed up. I won’t ever leave.
South Africa has it’s many many problems but I honestly believe that there is still hope. Change is possible. One of the reasons I love South Africa is for our many cultures which makes us the rainbow nation even though it comes at a cost. It is actually incredible to see how different cultures and traditions merged to create new ones and if I ever leave my country I would truly miss it.
Maybe I’m an idealist plagued by wishful thinking but I believe that once the scars has healed from Apartheid ( if it ever truly will) then our country can become better. South Africa has untapped potential besides our natural resources.
Bottomline I love my country with al it’s issues 🇿🇦🐘
(Also great video. It accurately summarises our current issues and also the history behind it. I’m thoroughly impressed💕)
Word. If you feel like you have a purpose, that brings more happiness than any artifical happiness that monetary success brings. A lot of western countries have an individualistic culture. Which while it has its benefits, can bring a lack of community and loneliness. That's where the sense of community of the African culture prevails. As someone from Nepal I relate a lot to the issues faced by the African countries because we have a lot in common. We are on the right trajectory. In the future, things will become better
SA rainbow is only colorful for whities ❤
@@aapworldwidetrue. Nepal is on Good trajectory and improving too. It will be a middle income country soon. Love to Nepal from India
@@srilakshmidevanathan8334 yo likewise, much love from Nepal to India. There has been a lot of development within India in the past 30 years. Ofcourse there are setbacks and difficulties every now and then, but yall are also on the right trajectory
I'm South African and this is a fun fact:Everyone outside of South Africa didn't know what load shedding was before watching this video
(BTW: Noel Deyzel is the greatest thing to come out of South Africa)
Not true as when I visit my family in Pakistan we would also experience load shedding regularly, we even call it that.
Load shedding is used everywhere, just not to the insane degree of South Africa.
As an electrical engineer the basics of load shedding is that if generation and load are unequal then the voltage and frequency of the grid will deviate from nominal which will damage anything plugged into it. Normally you keep this balance by adjusting generation to match load, but if all available generation is maxed out and load keeps increasing the only thing you can do is shed some load, aka cut people off. In the interest of equity you move the areas disconnected around so that no individual is cut off for 6 hrs and instead everyone just gives up 15min which is alot more tolerable. (With some load like hospitals being declared critical and never being disconnected)
The main difference between a functional grid and a disfunctional grid is that a functional one will almost never have to do any load shedding. (Special events like major heat waves or the Texas Icestorm can cause massive increases in demand, and possibly reduce available generation and this leads to load shedding, which is also called "rolling blackouts" and is the name most Americans are familiar with.)
@@jasonreed7522 true
I only heard about it in a video on the texas power failure
Welcome to Bangladesh ya twat
Petition for hoser to revisit some videos
1 India
2 Vietnam
3 Russia
4 Egypt
india is a $hitwhole
has hoser deleted his future of Pakistan video?
@@spyrex3988 That's incredibly racist
@@welwitschia3756 I think not
@@leaDR356 I swear the video had a thumbnail like 'future Indus superpower' now I can't see it anywhere.
This is the best take on my country's current issues I've ever seen! Thanks for making this!
Amazing editing, your hilarious! great vid🤣
As a mozambican who grew up visiting SA freequently its really sad seeing what's becoming of this country, last time I was there was last year and I was shocked when we had power outages basically all day. We used to go to south africa because of the better conditions compared to Mozambique, but now we have to avoid it because of the general lack of safety. Still think it's a beautiful country that has so much potential, but with the amount of corruption idk man...
How is the safety and economic development in Mozambique? Is it bad/getting worse, or good, improving, still in development?
@morriscolenbrander1395 Hi, sorry , I'm only seeing this reply today.
I feel like both safety and economic development have been worsening over the years. Mozambique was never the safest country ever, but I know that I can walk around, unlike in South Africa, where you need to go everywhere by car. But in the last few years, it's slowly been worsening. In terms of the economy, life is getting more and more expensive, and nothing is being done about it. The minimum wage in this country is a bit less than 100 bucks, its sad cause how are people suposed to make a living with the price of everything skyrocketing and with less than a 100 dollars every month.
@@tatimilena4017 hey, thanks for replying. Sad to hear that... I hope it won't go in the same direction as South Africa. I hope that many African countries start to fulfill their potential in the near future
We supply you with electricity. Whilst you have power we don't.
Every country in the world is beautiful.
This video was just fantastic. As a South African , I appreciate how you spoke about the problems of the past and the problems of the present. No one ever seems to talk about the corruption or loadshedding. The Zuma HIV joke was the cherry on top. Your research is impeccable and more people need to see your content.
Hi Kirari!
I like to think that he covertly assimilates himself into online communities based where the next video topic is and just slowly learns by osmosis until it's second nature to him
He didn't speak about the targeted white farmer murders and torture though. Or the necklacing.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 why would he, it's an economics video
@@victorkreig6089 It isn't. It's a general video about South Africa.
I live in South Africa in an estate, and just bordering the estate walls lies a poor township. Exactly as shown in a picture in this vid.
That friend of yours who told you about the Zulu and Xhosa going to war, is my friend too 😂The blacker the berry 👍🏿
Why does hoser always make a video factual yet interesting and very funny. Very nice.
Subs?
@@RedRocketthefirst Yes, why does this content creator make good content? Not even science can solve this riddle.
Well, it's so so, as there is actually allot more intricate details that actually determine the why's of it all. It's not at all the assumption that whites are withholding but rather that Africans are clueless at creating wealth. Some do but even they won't share because despite them all talking about "their people" if given wealth, they actually don't give a shit about their "brothers and sisters"
He's smart
Factual? The man is biased as hell.
The sad thing is that this is a vicious cycle of sorts, the insane crime rate coupled with structural problems make everyone willing and capable enough to solve the country's problems to leave the first chance they have and it ends up never getting better. Populism + a largely uneducated populace is a curse that can be as destructive as wars
and now you know why eastern europe is in limbo and cannot get out
I'm amazed at how accurate your information is wow.
Thank you for posting this video about the sad state of the country. I live in cape town south africa, its a real damn shame how corrupt our leaders are and how incompetent they are, as well as how dangerous it is to live here bc of the high crime rate.
I ordered some takeout one night, and as the guy was about to hand me my food a car stopped ahead of the street. Panicked, the delivery guy ran into my house bc he thought they were gonna stab him or something, I thought he was overreacting but everytime he tried to leave they would come out from a corner of the street. It was a very scary night for me honestly. Really insane how much corruption and crime there is here.
As a current resident of South Africa, load-shedding has now reached around 4 hours in most parts of the country and is still increasing. Love the video :D
If Mandela wasn't so evil he would have made sure you guys built a couple more nuclear plants, Koeberg despite being on the smaller side puts out a good amount of energy and with 6-7 of them I doubt you'd have rolling blackouts
What gets me is there have been what 5 other location proposals and yet none of them have gone anywhere?
@@theglassespro4557 not it isn't, most people don't know a damn thing about nuclear power and many people have used that fact to scare them into staying away from it for nearly a century now.
Now it is about ten hours.
@@Deontjie oof
@@victorkreig6089 South Africa could rely on solar power too. It's sad how nuclear has been demonized.
I’m a South African who left in 2019 to live in the UK. This video highlights why I left so well.
Congratulations.
You’ll be back soon!!! Silently of course
This was painful to watch... subscribed!
I live in South Africa. No joke... When the loadshedding stuff came up and the screen went black for a while I actually thought loadshedding was happening.
Why is it so common in South Africa?
My parents were Kenya diplomatic reps to SA in the early 2000s so i spent a lot of time in Pretoria and back then it was incredible to me how they had such efficient energy supply all day (for context, parts of Kenya at the time had horrible blackouts that could last for nearly a week). After nearly 2 decades it’s incredible how those roles have reversed, now i barely get 15min blackouts in Kenya while SA gets 8hr load shedding. SA is such a beautiful country with such incredible potential to be Africa’s greatest country - The talent and capital are right there, they just have to figure out the fallout of Apartheid in a more sensible way.
Most countries in Africa are moving forward even Zambia where I'm from had this issue way back and in January 2023 planned blackouts in Zambia were back but lasted only a month then everything went back to normal while in SA I read somewhere that they'll have load shedding for a few more years to come. What's funny is how pompous South Africans are online yet their country is sinking.
South Africa had at least a few decades head-start on Kenya in many ways and still is failing. A very depressing example for the world.
@Joe problem with our electricity, is that there is a single company that runs all our electricity and due to years of corruption, mismanagement and most importantly very little actual repairs done to any substations. The substations break down very often because there was no servicing done for 20+ years. Further, while i cant confirm there is currently probably a bunch of corporate sabotage from the ANC and probably other political groups to use as a scapegoat. Doesnt help that all 3 of the top political parties suck, and the only one that the 4th, who in the areas actually do stuff are racist... its all fucked
It's called "The Great Regression"
@@joe_lubinda those that are pompous are usually the ones who vote for the ones destroying our country
Hoser is wrong on the extent of our power cuts. We normally get around 6 hours of no electricity a day and that's if one's local substation hasn't malfunctioned because when that happens you can be left without any electricity for up to 20 hours. A part of my local area (in the nation's capital city mind you) didn't have any electricity for 2 days recently and this was in a leafy middle class suburb.
Strange I'm from a middle class suburb to and I only ever see the lights go off for 2, if it's a good day one whole hour. sucks to be you I guess
@@mykel9834 Bro I know people who live in areas that don't get load shedding at all. It varies
@Frederick Von Abel I think maybe the grid is run at half capacity but it doesn't mean the load shedding is. Power maybe off in some area for 6 hours but they employ other methods to save the other 6 hours of energy
@@frederickvonabel6349 aren't they off the grid?
How can the power situation be that bad in your country?
as a SA citizen I can confirm
and the worst part is many people ignore it and just hope someone else will fix it
As a south african I agree with a lot of this truly sad to see my nation like this
As a South African what is your opinion on zimbabweans? Every time I go to twitter it seems like yall want me dead.
@@bumbobaggins south africa hog wild man
@@bumbobaggins I can answer that for you:
We honestly think that your country is making a recovery, after Mugabe, but it still has a long way to go.
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 Definitely better than you
@@bumbobaggins Black Africans have never been warm to one another. Count yourself lucky that you haven't been doused with petrol and burnt to death yet.
Twenty years ago I was warning my fellow South Africans that we could be the next Zimbabwe. But it was the boom times of the early 2000's and nobody listened to me. Now they listening ... and emigrating.
@@londonspade5896not necessarily
@@kennypowers2341 we're already just Southern Zimbabwe mate.
Same here. In the 90's when the gov started dishing out power left right and centre, I told everyone I could that they were overloading the grid and not building new stations to increase our power output to match the increasing demand. So many told me I didn't know what I was talking about because I was only a teenager. Well..... the rest is history.
Helped cause Zimbabwe, saw it and didn't prepare for it, then became it. There you go
I was not prepared for "the blacker the berry reference"
Saving this to remember on those days I miss home.
As a South African born in the 80’s, I’ve seen a fair bit and I’m not a white South African. I have a decently successful business with our employees counting for 80% of my business from the black community. I never thought I would ever imagine this but I am also considering leaving my land, purely on two reasons only: 1. There’s no future for my children here. 2. The rate of violent crime. I work with people from many different countries and my European colleagues/associates are sometimes baffled when I account for sheer level of VIOLENT crime. We as ‘saffas’ can adapt to anything, to protect ourselves we strap firearms to our waists, to deal with load shedding (those of us fortune to afford it) have backup invertors/solar power and generators, to deal with water outages we drill boreholes, all of this in its place but living under constant state of fear is becoming intolerable for some. Sadly, if I leave and sell up my business, I would leave about 150-200 people without work.
I am so sorry to hear that. If you had to leave, is there no way to ensure that the person / business who buys your business could retain the employees?
As a venezuelan, I can only advise to get out while you still can, you don't want to get trapped there when everything collapses
Sell and emigrate while you still can. It's only going to get worse.
as a South African I can say our country is life on hardcore mode
Are you from Joburg by any chance? And are you one of the 2 thirds of the youth population who is unemployed?
Lol not really man.
🤣💔 bro!!! we being baked
@@beaucaspar3990 the unemployment rate in South Africa is truly insane. It's only a matter of time until South Africa becomes a failed state
@@ndzululwazimangqalaza7880 my cousin can't ride 2km to work bc his neighbour did that and got his bike and phone stolen after being held at gunpoint
interesting that trevornoah is used as the coloured example, when he's famously mixed and felt ostracised for looking "albino", as he put it
Me laughing at the jokes then remembering I live in South Africa🤣😀😐💀
You then realize you will never make it out of this hell
Isn't south Africa apart of the commonwealth? Surely it can't be that hard to move to WA or somewhere like that
@@drake1896 It was but the nationalist party made them abolish the momarchy
@@goldensilver1937 that's a big rip, best of luck guys and stay safe
@@drake1896 fookin hell, keep those african apes in south africa with their beloved leader AND THEIR politicinas. No need for human waste to enter great britain
I am Nigerian and agree 100% with you on South Africa. They are a failing state and they have no one to blame but themselves. They inherited a country with everything lined up for greater success but are turning into Zimbabwe 2.0. They have no excuse. Botswana is literally next to them, has less resources but is politically stable and has better economics and infrastructure (they can actually keep the lights on!)
The grass isn't always greener on the other side life has changed in both Botswana n SA since the puppet presidents took power
Zimbabwe such a disgrace looting of public funds is rampant
Not really, Botswana arguably had the benefit of being unnoticed so competent leaders could develop the country, Botswana didn't have the same brain drain that South Africa did.
Also as a Nigerian it's not as if we can talk.
@@Dracon7601 People always ignore the brain drain aspect. I used to work in a small research clinic in a hospital in Australia, and we had two South African nurses and a Mozambican microbiologist with a PhD. Apparently, for every skilled worker that leaves South Africa, about 10 other people lose their jobs. It's hard to keep the lights on when all the engineers have emigrated.
@@Dracon7601 Actually, Botswana was not "unnoticed." What made them such a better country pre and post colonialism is that their culture and socio-political style was similar to what the British had i.e. more representative form of traditional government with Chiefs having to be elected and rule via merit and good will of the people. That ensured that stuff like meritocracy and even individual rights were upheld. Also, they were almost assimilated into apartheid/white-ruled Southern Africa, especially for their diamonds, until their leaders actually asked the British to take colonial rule of their country because the British were a far better option than apartheid Afrikaans (Look it up, I am not lying). And as I mentioned, their socio-cultural way of life was already similar to what the British had and when they started imposing stuff like democracy, capitalism, etc, Botswana adopted to all of them very well compared to many other African colonies. That is why till today, they remain one of the most politically and economically stable countries in Africa.
I grew up in Apartheid South Africa. Almost 100% employment and one of the strongest currencies in the world. SA went from the number 1 mining revenue generation erating country in the world to number 59. The ZAR is worth 5% of what it was in the 80's. Here's the problem: Communism! Which means "institutionalised corruption" to the point of State Capture.
Under the ANC government, there are hundreds of riots every year. Amazingly, the rioters burn and loot universities and schools. They plunder infrastructure. Living here is truly strange, and getting stranger.
You are forgetting black incompetence.
this channel makes me like history a lot more than when i was in school
As someone who’s isn’t South African and has never been to South Africa this is very accurate
Lol
I am a South African who lives in South Africa, I can assure you that everything he said is very accurate. This country is shit
It is
Was much better 30 years ago.
i met a guy from south Africa and he was joining the marines corps. he told me some of the shit he had seen while living that and my jaw was on the floor.
Most first worlders think we're lying or exaggerating.
Yeah not surprising. Murder and rape are so common here that people are super desensitised to it and we normally go 6 hours with no power in my area (a middle class suburb)
@@dannyarcher6370 one I remember is he told me his cousin with set on fire alive right in front of him. Put a tire around him and set him a light.
@@ColePhelps-cv2qh Oh, so he was black?
@@dannyarcher6370 yep and he was huge like 6 ft 6.
As a black south afrivan this is 100% accurate and not to mention that most burgluries happen during these power outages.And that this country is some how in partnerships with huger ,better,stronger countries like Russia,China,Brazil and India
The worse part of South Africa, the fragmented ruling party disaster :ANC/EFF/COPE /UDM/MK/Mbhazima Party/Duduzana Zuma Party.
U see,large scope of madness, members of the same party naming themselves differently to facilitate moving from one group to another.
Sounds like imitational democracy.
I went to south africa back then in 2018 and i really saw how massive the inequality was especially in some areas of cape town. Me and my father couldn't believe it when we saw a shack in the slums built like an upstairs near the city center.
You should check California 😂😂😂
Yep, most of our problems can be traced back to this inequality.
So you mean when the government starts taking property from people with no due process the country loses foreign investment and the economy stagnates??? Who could’ve predicted this
if you are referring to the publically owned entities like eskom, i would rather see them stay corrupt publically than become privately owned wealth extractors.
@@redacted9280 not under apartheird LOL
i’m west african but knowing how different south africa is from the east north and west of africa is genuinely scary.
I could swear you were South African with that loadshedding joke🤣 As a South African this is really great infomative and accurate video!
As a South African citizen I this 100% correct
It was better when the boers owned it
@@Bruno_bm151 only better for the white population not the majority at all
@@Bruno_bm151 The ideal scenario is the Boers never coming into power and the country remaining under British control. There would still be a degree of discrimination but it would be that of the comparatively less harsh Rhodesian model. We might have even kept the non racial Cape franchise system.
@@frederickvonabel6349 It would be better that way than full on Apartheid but it would be even better if everyone was equal from the start, if we still had all the infrastructure then SA might have developed into a resource super power instead of stagnating like we are now
@@LindaBobbert what
The ANC has been in power for 30 years? They've had time to make things better but looks like they've only made themselves richer.
Good video man
13:30 loved the nod to kendrick
I've never been much into geopolitics but the way you mix in history and geography with a dash of memes is perfect love your vids man also happy to see your still adding sound effects (:
I have friends who live on a farm near Pretoria and they're power was once of for 17 days cause some people stole cables and the people who was supposed to fix it stole cables as well
but the whites are the evil ones arent they?
I believe it.
@@matthew1882 its true because of the long power outage their fridges stoped working
@@DRIPZ_KLONG I'm South African so I know that pain.
@@matthew1882 our pain is constant and sharp
Great vid❤
As a South African, it’s so sad to see one of the most beautiful countries go to waste. Some points in your video were definitely off but you did an alright job covering this, especially for an American.
A Belgian lady was going on about how amazing it must be to live in South Africa with all its nature and stuff, I shook my head.
well our nature is amazing, its true.
Yes
From South Africa, when the screen went black I thought the power was out for a second. It's bad man, good video.
Very good summary
10:34 yo bro im from south africa and that moment right there is to real😭. Youre too funny man
Fun fact, about a week ago my father and I had to fetch my sister from a party near downtown Johannesburg. Shit felt like a scene from Sicario, driving in convoy, checking every intersection for potential crims. Just another day in SA.
I lived in Cape Town during my childhood from 2008 - 2015, fortunately left when things were about to go real bad. I remember having load shedding almost bi-weekly for a good 4 hours in the evening but I missed the water rationing. Was fortunate enough to live in the area around Big Bay so things were civilized for the most part (with the exception of the usual DUI crashes).
I'll be brutally honest, ZA ain't looking too hot right now, but if they can get their stuff together it's a really great place to live in. Also should mention that as an Asian immigrant I was often treated with animosity, like when I tried to enroll in Blouberg Ridge Primary School the principal met us at the front door with a sour look and asked if I could speak English without any welcomes or whatever. Enrolled in Elkanah House and they were a LOT more friendly.
I'm a South African who comes from a south asian family and I go to a predominantly south asian school and I've noticed how badly they treated the somali students. ZA has these sort of bubbles where different areas are occupied by different ethnicities. Sure its not like apartheid where you couldn't enter these areas but it still feels like there's an invisible wall. Sometimes it feels less like ZA' s a unified diverse country and more like different diversities existing next to each other.
@@imhappy7632 Thing is the societal/psychological barriers take a much, much longer time to break than the legal or physical ones.
@@imhappy7632 don't forget there is xenophobia there. Hence why Somalis live with each other
@@imhappy7632 Hence why diversity carries little importance if it isn’t inclusive and equitable. Cape Qualified Franchise anyone?
Wow all of this has been going on since 2015??? I thought it was recent
I used to live in South Africa from 2016-2019, I remember when water didn't work so we had to use bottled water to wash, clean, and what you need for water and the electricity turning off at random times...?
Bro you are doing it again. Very few blacks in South Africa or natives, they all migrated south to South Africa for work. There’s only one tribe with very few members that are natives -they lived way off to the west and it took 75 years before they ever bumped into them.
Almost all the blacks you see in South Africa or not from South Africa from a northern region and are also immigrants.
this relates to the electricity problem: some business had a solar farm for themselves. It overproduced so they decided to sell power to the locals and eliminated load shedding in that area. The government made them stop and now people are back to no power.
I couldn't get out of South Africa quick enough. I was spending more tome looking over my shoulder than watching for potholes in front of me. I got polio in 1956 when I was t9 months old, and felt like a "white privileged cripple target" for all my years there. The hatred felt palpable in the streets and I always thought I was in danger. Then the attacks actually started...
I am glad you managed to escape. It is rough here at the moment. We project this picture of a happy place to the world and in reality it is much different. South Africa is a beautiful country but it is rotten inside with hatred and violence that seldom get seen or heard of beyond our borders. We really need to get the facts out there. We need the same urgency from world leaders to press our government to enact true reform as was directed at the apartheid government.
'Natives watched while British and Dutch fought over their land.'
This is why you must never allow yourself to be so weak and disunified as you can't fight off aliens on your own land.
The Khoi and the San don't even live there anymore. All of those people there now are Bantu, who came centuries after the whites were there
The historic wars were a bit more complicated; the Boers even fought the British alongside the Xhosa at one point, and all living in the country fought against the British, even though the Zulus fought the Boers too.
love the amount of effort that goes into your vids and all the stats in them
Heres some stats for you jimmy, the IQ required to work any job in civilization is 85 per project 100,000. The average black IQ is 70 in sub saharan africa per many scientists such as Lynn/Rindermann. Something like 80% of black sub saharans are mentally disabled by IQ score. Its really that simple, they didnt' even have the wheel before contact. And remember IQ is majority hereditary, more genetic than height. Thats why these 'people' never invented the wheel and fail to develop to this day.
he appears to do them at ridiculous speeds too, those little effects, animations, sounds and details take A LOT of time, at least for me, huge respect.
Finally! A video about my country where the corrupt government is added to the small % of people who hold most of the wealth instead of just blaming it all on White Boere.
No offense but the boers are why 90% of these problems exist.
Aaah, no wonder you people support Russia
It all makes sense now
@@RazorsharpLT We don't support Russia...
@@Stoffies123 Not what i've seen from all the BRICS posting
(Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa)
Of fun note Brazil is the ONLY nation in the world that went from a developed economy into a developing one lmao
@@RazorsharpLT it's just political manouvering, that doesn't mean that it's popular