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Post by spatial on Feb 14, 2019 16:23:54 GMT 10
There are currently rolling blackouts in South Africa. Esceskom is the national power supplier - they are the target of lots of humour. Some family members have had no power for a full day. Other places have been out of power for a week. VID-20190214-WA0000.mp4 (1.05 MB)
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Post by Morgo on Feb 25, 2019 20:56:20 GMT 10
When I was in Botswana a few years back the capital, Gaborone, had constant scheduled blackouts. I don't think Africa in general having power issues is anything new.
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Post by jonasparker on Feb 26, 2019 3:24:10 GMT 10
What happens in South Africa at shtf? Whites flee for their lives. Infrastructure crumbles. Natives return to 15th century standard of living. Disease runs rampant. Local despots get rich. SA leaders declare that all problems are the fault of "ray-cists"!
Did I miss anything?
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Post by feralemma on Feb 26, 2019 10:01:50 GMT 10
South Africa currently has FMD (foot and mouth disease), right now it's lights put for their wool industry and China have stopped buying their wool for now due to it. Probably not the diseases you were talking about being rampant but it is having an effect!
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Post by Morgo on Feb 26, 2019 15:36:48 GMT 10
South Africa is still on the verge of a water crisis. They seem to have avoided running out but are on rations of 50L per person a day I believe.
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Post by frontsight on Feb 26, 2019 16:41:25 GMT 10
The ZA power supplier is actually called “Eishkom”· Black out is nothing new there, I copped it all the time when I was living in Potchefstrom. Food and mouth come up from time to time too... Nothing's new.
I am still hopeful
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Post by norseman on Feb 26, 2019 17:21:54 GMT 10
If you take the white man out of white man infrastructure it falls down! This is an historical fact! There are dozens of precedents to back up my statement! So please don't delete my post as being NON PC or Rascist!
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Post by spatial on Feb 26, 2019 18:35:48 GMT 10
The post was about disaster humour, there is some truth to the fact that the proverbial hits the fan but the fan is not turning. Lights out in Australia causes huge problems, developing countries just roll with the punch. If a CME toasted the earth's electricity grid in the short term it would just be another day in Africa.
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Post by Morgo on Feb 27, 2019 20:29:57 GMT 10
The post was about disaster humour, there is some truth to the fact that the proverbial hits the fan but the fan is not turning. Lights out in Australia causes huge problems, developing countries just roll with the punch. If a CME toasted the earth's electricity grid in the short term it would just be another day in Africa. I don't know about that.
Sure perhaps out in the very outer areas or small communities where they are less dependent on electricity and technology it might be less effected, for awhile, the more dense areas or cities though if power and thus other essential services/utilities/communications go out for a little longer than normal Africa would very quickly become a full on war zone.
Remember a large amount of the population leaves in poverty while a large amount also lives in nice homes or in compounds, behind barbed wire and electric fences.
This photo of Cape Town emphasizes the divide.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 28, 2019 7:33:17 GMT 10
That image says a lot. There are 62 households in the left half of the picture. I literally can not count the households on the right side. If they are all used to power going on and off but the essentials of life remained supplied that is one thing. If those on the right lose their food and water supplies for an extended time its an easy guess where they are going to try and obtain those things.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 28, 2019 12:50:08 GMT 10
Like a plague of locusts, the have-nots engulf the haves.
The haves better be prepared to either repel the onslaught or run fast. Very fast.
The shallow thinkers who believe a bolt action .22 rifle is the ideal survival gun need to study that photo.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 28, 2019 14:49:00 GMT 10
Relocation any time between now and 20 years ago seems wise. Even the really wealthy in the USA are buying sanctuaries 'off shore' in places like New Zealand and various islands around the place.
Biggest problem I imagine in South Africa might be trying to find buyers for those nice places?
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Post by feralemma on Mar 1, 2019 0:14:23 GMT 10
Like a plague of locusts, the have-nots engulf the haves. The haves better be prepared to either repel the onslaught or run fast. Very fast. The shallow thinkers who believe a bolt action .22 rifle is the ideal survival gun need to study that photo. They got pump action .22's over there 😂
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Post by spinifex on Mar 1, 2019 13:48:36 GMT 10
Forget guns. This is how they deal with multitudes of something 'Africa style':
the major action starts at 2.00 but worth seeing whole thing for the context.
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Post by Tim Horton on Mar 4, 2019 7:14:01 GMT 10
Quite frankly... Every place has there roll-a-coaster ups and downs. Africa was at one of its peaks in the colonial times, with up and down times during the two world wars, and later economic time.
I saw a you tube by a farmer showing a politician saying Africa needs to take over from the white farmer, not KILL them yet. Also saying if the farm fails, no problem the government will provide money or what is needed to restart. Essentially saying anything to get elected.
Parts of Africa are already saying to the white farmers, wait you can't leave, this isn't working, we can't feed people. So essentially the country will have to hit a bottom point before it can start to come back. And likely that can not be stopped, or turned around easily or well. Now the problem also is, who will step in to guide this comeback.. ?? That could be a world changer...
My 5 cents of opinion..
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Post by norseman on Mar 4, 2019 7:32:34 GMT 10
The remaining Afrikaners are going to push for a better deal they gave the rainbow nation a 25 year run and nothing good has come from it. The Boer are going to double down, they mean it when they say they are prepared to fight to the death because they've basically got nothing to lose! Don't ever waste your time telling a Boer he is outnumbered because he will tell you 50 to 1 is pretty much a fair fight! He has got history on his side to prove it!
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Post by frostbite on Mar 4, 2019 18:41:28 GMT 10
I can smell a business opportunity, Norseman. Similar to the pirate hunting tours those ex-russian sf were running off the coast of Somalia.
Like pay your money, fly in, collect an R4 and go on clearing patrols on some large Afrikaner estate. Almost like Rhodesia in the good ole days.
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Post by norseman on Mar 5, 2019 14:03:52 GMT 10
I'm going to sign up as an aid worker! I'll dig ditches, work in hospitals, even cook for them! When I come home I will expect to be awarded an Order of Australia for my services to humanity!! My weekends off will be free for personal admin, rest, recreation and pursuit of "cultural enrichment".
What happens in South Africa stays in South Africa!
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