{"id":19959,"date":"2023-03-09T14:32:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19959"},"modified":"2023-03-09T14:32:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T21:32:01","slug":"the-collapse-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/03\/09\/the-collapse-of-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collapse Of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Republic of South Africa was supposed to be a diverse multi-ethnic and multi-racial progressive democracy complete with <em>restorative justice<\/em> that was supposed to lead to a utopia with flowering meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children dance and laugh and play with gumdrop smiles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13367\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_.png 685w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_-300x263.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Turns out that letting Communist oriented corrupt kleptocracy whose experience was based on terrorism would result in the destruction of an entire nation and a hell on Earth for all races and ethnicities\u2026 some more than others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1. South Africa has collapsed. US embassy is now informing international travellers to stock up (prepper style) on food and water. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WLfG88D0Uj\">https:\/\/t.co\/WLfG88D0Uj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629707620792582146?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Some may insist on a false dilemma fallacy that it was a choice between Apartheid and this, from both the champions of the former <em>and<\/em> the later. That Botswana, lead by Black Africans and surrounded by former White dominated countries for decades, is one of the most successful and least corrupt countries in Africa belies that false dichotomy. This isn\u2019t about race\u2026 it\u2019s about <em>anti-racism<\/em> being used as the excuse for greed, power, and incompetence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2. City Power has an average turn around time of 2 to 3 days for grid repairs. They don&#39;t have the manpower, supplies nor funds. And they&#39;ve already used this year&#39;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629707623481110528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">3. We&#39;re seeing an increase in coordinated attacks on water, power and comms infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629707627369209858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4. Looting is no longer just a daily thing, but is also now becoming more structured with guerilla planning involved.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629707631114764288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">5. Our roads no longer exist. Anything that is state run is crumbling.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629708058988249093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">6. Police fire and hospital resources for the state don&#39;t exist and are also slowly disintegrating.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629708292602707969?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">7. ESKOM &#8211; South Africa&#39;s only power producer &#8211; is averaging 50% or less power output. Plunging massive parts of our country into rolling blackouts.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629708563789619200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8. Grant recipient&#39;s outnumber tax payers like 10 to 1. (Need to work out that number, but it&#39;s definitely up there. They offer nothing to society.. just leaches.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629708873039851522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">9. The decay in general amazes even me. Roads are shot. Infrastructure is collapsing. Anything that isn&#39;t bolted down is stolen, and what is bolted down is grinded off.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629709136316309506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">10. The cost of living is insane. Fuel is expensive. Medical aid is a luxury that most cannot afford. Food costs are going through the roof. I myself can literally barely pay for new fucking pants. \ud83e\udd26<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629709652341432321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">11. The SA government now wants to put through EWC and NHI. Expropriation Without Compensation where land is taken from rightful and legal land owners and given to the &quot;previously disadvantaged&quot;. NHI is some national health thing where you use the government for medical aid.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629709984454914048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">12. Our Navy, Army and Airforce are done. Troops are buying their own boots.. army bases are being looted for copper.. vehicles and machinery are being canabilised for parts.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629715787685535745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">13. Our murder rate is higher than the death rate in Ukraine&#39;s current conflict. Higher than an active war zone. 100&#39; of rapes a day.. 1000&#39;s of kidnappings every month. 90 hijackings a day. Farmers being murdered like flies in the most brutal ways imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629737927864360964?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">14. The only form of public transportation that is operational is the taxi industry. Their mafia tactics have ensured that over the years, they&#39;re the only ones who will operate. They burn and kill anyone who gets in their way.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629758440141733888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">15. Our rail is dead. Almost the entirety of South Africa&#39;s rail system is non operational.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629758570076971008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">16. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8qcrswO5jx\">https:\/\/t.co\/8qcrswO5jx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629789051413843968?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\">17. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F8UwQOniJE\">https:\/\/t.co\/F8UwQOniJE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629844869161054208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">National cabinet reshuffle coming soon.. doesn&#39;t mean fuck all anyway considering they&#39;re all ancient and on pension. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N1Hy9iPTTY\">https:\/\/t.co\/N1Hy9iPTTY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629871346862678016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">18. Highest unemployment rate in the world at around 35%.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629880030921670657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">19. A chicken coup is more secured than our border. Millions cross every month illegally. Most of our border isn&#39;t fenced off.. and the parts that are, are literally just barbed wire on the fucking ground.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629880571626242055?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">20. Sewage. Everywhere. In the streets. In the rivers and oceans.. flowing through our fresh water dams too.. just everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1629899075268100096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P4mGcemj2o\">https:\/\/t.co\/P4mGcemj2o<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1630219920305684480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" align=\"center\">\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tAZG6GhM51\">https:\/\/t.co\/tAZG6GhM51<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; #zombieland (@k9_reaper) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k9_reaper\/status\/1630236337113530368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It will only get worse.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\"><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatblog\"><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalhat\"><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"The Collapse Of South Africa\"><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Republic of South Africa was supposed to be a diverse multi-ethnic and multi-racial progressive democracy complete with restorative justice that was supposed to lead to a utopia with flowering meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where the children dance and laugh and play with gumdrop smiles.\"><meta name=\"twitter:image:src\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/685px-Map_of_South_Africa_with_provincial_borders.svg_.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The Republic of South Africa was supposed to be a diverse multi-ethnic and multi-racial progressive democracy complete with restorative justice that was supposed to lead to a utopia with flowering meadows and rainbow skies, and rivers made of chocolate, where &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2023\/03\/09\/the-collapse-of-south-africa\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[19,65,24,35,48],"class_list":["post-19959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-doom","tag-leviathan","tag-rip","tag-social-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19960,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19959\/revisions\/19960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}