A deliberate government sanctioned strategy to systematically strip the country of any whites, and then crying victory from the top of the ashes that are the only thing left. Zimbabwe is a classic example and for-runner for South Africa. Centuries later, they will still blame the West, colonial powers and apartheid for their ills and sorry state, instead of accepting what they cannot change (history) and jumping at the chance to shape a successful future. Instead, their leaders ride the gravy train with their snouts in the trough while the masses suffer. But when there is an election, the masses still "vote" them back in to power. Until Africans as a whole are willing to accept responsibility for their own future and stop blaming everyone else, they will never achieve anywhere near anything resembling success. South Africa is a great, great tragedy to what could have been a brilliant success story for Africa.

I stole this post from another site. It shows more trouble in SA. WHEN A GOVERNMENT TAKES CONTROL!

It is with great frustration and sadness that I'm posting this morning. It's about 5:30 am in South Africa, I've woken up early to start with assignments for university, to be more precise an assignment for The philosophy of science module. Usually I don't wake up early to work on assignments, but there's A BIG REASON why. LOADSHEDDING!!! Now I can imagine most of the group doesn't have an idea what loadshedding is, because you live in countries where everything works, infrastructure wise.

LOADSHEDDING is when our country's power (electricity) provider ,Eskom, shuts down major cities and areas all over the country to keep the whole country's power grid from complete collapse at certain times of the day. I live in a suburb of Johannesburg, as you can see below, I've uploaded a screen shot from an app that shows you the times when your power will be shut off. 12:30-15:30 is our time but usually it's another hour before it's switched on again and sometimes it can continue for 12 hours.

Why you may ask is this happening? Eskom was a private company until 10 years ago when the government took it over. The extremely corrupt ANC has stolen over a hundred billion rand from Eskom's funding which we the taxpayer pays which should have gone into maintenance and upgrading the power grid. They fired or retrenched 70% of the competent Engineers an workers and replaced them with greedy incompetent government officials who are most likely family of someone in parlement. They put in a huge qouta for BEE (Black economic empowerment) workers which means you get appointed solely based on the colour of your skin and not your qualifications or expertise. This has lead to no maintenance being done and the whole infrastructure on the brink of collapse.

I remember the first time loadshedding was implemented, it was 2008 and I was at boarding school,14 years old, every night and even in the day the power would go off, we used to sit with candles and battery lights in the study hall to complete our homework. In 2009 they said it would never happen again. What a joke we have been loadshedding off and on through the years, but since Christmas it has been happening more frequently and now its been every day for 3 weeks. There are rumours that we may have a complete collapse very soon, the whole South Africa may be without electricity for a month, maybe even 6 months if everything fails.

So this morning I want to urge you to be thankful your living in a country where everything works even if the politics are bad. Atleast you can boil your kettle anytime you want, your kids can do their homework without candle light and they can bath in hot water. You can prepare food anytime you want and you have no fear of basic necessity like electricity not being there.