South Africa Collapse – 12 Hour Daily Blackouts and Theft of Electric Grid Copper

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South Africa is undergoing rapid collapse. South Africa used to have abundant energy and could sell energy to neighboring African countries. However, there was incompetent government and starting in 2007 there has been an energy crisis.

There has been chronic shortages of electricity. This has reached the level where there are a constant schedule of rolling blackouts which now last 6-12 hours per day.

The blackouts mean that the electric grid in sections will have no power. Large sections of the grid is being taken apart by thieves who take the copper.

This is part of rising crime. The South African government is so dysfunctional that virtually no services can be performed.

There is more private security guards than the army and police combined.

White people and professional back people are leaving the country. This is at roughly the rate of 23,000 per year. The black people who are leaving are doctors and engineers.

The percentage of white people in South Africa has declined from 11 percent of South Africa’s population in 1996, 9 percent in 2011, and just 8 percent as of mid-2021. It is about 7% white in 2023.

In 2023, South Africa had a crime rate of 76.86 per 100,000 people. This ranked South Africa as one of the top 10 countries with the highest crime rate.

Between April and June 2023, the South African Police Service (SAPS) recorded:
6,228 murders
36,808 burglaries at residential premises
43,036 total incidents

The average number of murders per day was 68. While this was lower than the first quarter of 2022/23, the numbers were still alarmingly high.

The most common crime in South Africa is housebreaking. In 2022/23, 1.1 million households experienced housebreaking.

Crime in South Africa is worse than in Afghanistan.

15 thoughts on “South Africa Collapse – 12 Hour Daily Blackouts and Theft of Electric Grid Copper”

  1. Things are in a vicious spiral to be sure, but I would be loath to attribute it to genetics. Consider: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100121155220.htm

    I test rather high for IQ myself, but my own experiences with IQ testing seem to tell me that, while the high scores cannot be earned by people that are much less intelligent than indicated, regardless of what culture they hail from, it is not impossible for people to earn a far lower score than what their actual intelligence should merit, most especially if they spring from an entirely different culture than whoever prepared the test.

    IQ tests are apparently peculiar to the society in which they are developed. Using an American or European IQ test on people who have had minimal exposure to western education and culture is not going to yield a lot of scores at the higher end. And even in American and European cultures, children of families at different ends of the economic spectrum will, on average, test differently, as those with the higher economic status will tend to have more exposure to western education and culture

    Obviously, poor nutrition, pollution, drugs, alcohol, reinforced bad genes, and many other things, especially in the mother while pregnant can cause children to actually be less intelligent than they might have otherwise been. And since it has been demonstrated that some ethic groups may be slightly more intelligent, on average, than the global population, it stands to reason there could be some that are slightly lower.

    But this seems unlikely to be the cause of failed states. There are certainly plenty of other fingers to point, especially in light of the fact that Russia, and potentially, even China, may soon be failed states. Consider that a dog, if confronted by a person with an IQ of 90, and, say, a reincarnated Sir Isaac Newton, would not be able to discern any difference between the two in how well they could attend to its basic needs.

  2. Black people lack the capacity to build civilization, not even maintain one if given to them, especially in the south where they don’t have a Middle Eastern and North African admixture. This ability has evolved with the populations that left Africa.

    • I don’t think that your comment is as evil and simple-minded as it appears. There are certainly genetic differences within the pure strains of each of the various identifiable races — but culture and epigenetics plays a much larger role than genetics, given the right environment. It’s unclear what interventions need to happen before certain less-than-multicultural low-trust societies can find a peaceful and productive equilibrium — likely easy (in theory) tech answers such as super-cheap ubiquitous energy, clean water/ sanitation, abundant nutrition, and unlimited data — things that can’t be hoarded, filtered, withheld, or re-sold. And this would need to be provided throughout, at one-time, and with minimal maintenance. This isn’t saying that a low-drama, low-risk background infrastructure leads to a low-crime and moderate-productivity/ ingenuity society, but they are certainly more amenable to better familiy and community structures, a better trade and manufacturing sector, and more long-term thinking.

    • Kind of weird that the countries where Europeans had the most influence are the ones with the most problems. Also, the Nubians, the Egyptians, and the Ethiopians would like a word with you since they were civilized thousands of years before the Nothern Europeans.

      • “Kind of weird that the countries where Europeans had the most influence are the ones with the most problems.”

        Actually, the opposite of this is true. The countries with the most European influence are much better off. For example: Europe, North America, Australia, South Africa under European rule.

        Whites have done, by far, more to better humanity than any other peoples in the world.

  5. “There is more private security guards than the army and police combined.”

    I guess that would be the path forward. The security companies will unite and start making and enforcing laws. Kind of dystopian but then again so are scheduled 12 hour blackouts in 2023.

  6. Total fertility rate was 2.2 in 2021 and falling so it is likely at or below replacement level now. Even if they replaced their government with people who aren’t fools on this very day they won’t be the success they should have been. They’ve squandered their best days and best opportunities. Sad but there it is.

  7. The inmates are running the asylum. No big surprise here. There is no saving it. Fleeing is the correct response.

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