Text Drivers are Killers
Joe Biden - "Time to put Trump in the bullseye."
Everyone knew this would happen. Whether in africa or america, when blax take over a city, everything falls apart. These people can't even read; how can they maintain a modern city built by whites.?
https://archive.md/2023.06.18-15205...-like-a-failed-state#selection-3615.0-3647.26
Africa’s Richest City Is Crumbling Under Chaos and Corruption
Johannesburg was built on gold. It’s now such a mess that homeless people direct the traffic.
ByS'thembile Cele
June 16, 2023, 4:00 AM UTC
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The continent’s richest city was built on gold, but it’s now defined by chaos, crime and corruption more than ever. It encapsulates the wider collapse of basic services across South Africa. From a broken railway network disrupting trade to archaic sanitation that triggered a recent cholera outbreak near the capital, Pretoria, parts of the country increasingly look like a failing state.
Services and maintenance are the most visible casualty. Then there are the rolling blackouts implemented by Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd.
The state-owned power utility, which has become a byword in recent years for South Africa’s troubles, has a fleet of coal-fired power stations that are old, poorly maintained and badly designed. The shutdowns are known locally as “loadshedding” and last for up to four and a half hours at a time.
Almost half of the population is unemployed and living in poverty. Nationwide, the jobless rate stands at 32.9%. Around 18 million people rely on some form of social aid, which makes the number of beneficiaries twice as many as registered taxpayers.
Meanwhile, crime has proliferated. The once flourishing central business district is an eyesore where derelict buildings are hijacked by criminal syndicates, forcing out major commercial operations from the area. For more petty criminals, in vogue are cables and metals that can be stolen from electricity substations and sold on the black market. Others just try to connect to the grid illegally.