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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean life is shit here with super high unemployment, but I don't know about "collapse". People have been going hard on the "South Africa is going to collapse any day now" post 1994 (wonder why 🤔🤔🤔) and I don't see it happening. Lots of quality of life measurements have actually improved since then.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are some good sources to show that South Africa isn't going the way of Jacob Zuma, with the current one, Cyril Ramaphosa

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean we're still going in a bad way. Issues such as corruption, inequality, rolling electricity blackouts/ load shedding, unemployment and austerity politics are all major issues in South Africa. Zuma was just on a level of shameless corruption that really can't be compared to many other world leaders. Ramaphosa is not a great president, but he's certainly better than Zuma was, and I'd say better than Mbeki too (but that's an unpopular opinion in South Africa).

If you want statistics, you can look at the data from the lastest 2022 census to see how things have improved in some ways.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not to get into the semantics, but isn’t South Africa in the “western” sphere of influence?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

They're the S in BRICS, right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically the “Anglosphere” too but we know what that really means

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don’t they speak fucking Dutch?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No lol. We have 11 official languages (12 including sign language). isiZulu is the most spoken language at home, and English is basically the lingua franca.

Afrikaans (which is based off of Dutch) is spoken by 14% of the population. Another interesting thing to note here is that the majority of Afrikaans speakers are non white, in the coloured community (not a racial slur in South Africa, it's a culture/ethnicity). Afrikaans was the official language of the government during apartheid though.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes and no really. Lots of trade and economic projects with the west, but there is a rift in diplomacy and foreign policy. Definitely playing both sides here.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Their pass got revoked when they ended apartheid

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Excited to hear how this will benefit bitcoin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I blearily watched this one over my lunch break. The title is more clickbait; the bulk of the video explains the nation's chronic electricity issues. It touches on a lot of surface aspects but barely dives into any of it. Overall it's slop but didn't seem very reactionary

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yeah the electricity stuff is really bad. The country went from 58% electrification in 1996 to 96% now, but we have rolling electricity blackouts thanks to incompetence, corruption and austerity politics.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, let me get in on this. I predict the complete collapse of Cape Verde. Their desperate lack of graphic deisgners is not sustainable and will for sure lead the country down the path of ruin in the coming... weeks? Look at their flag and tell me that the graphic design situation in that country does not pose a serious risk to life and limb of every one of their however many citizens they have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Provo County, Utah is perhaps the most unstable place on Earth, how they've survived this long is bizarre