re: Heard from an aunt in Johannesburg, South Africa is a disaster

what hurricane hit there?

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You really don’t want to see them. She is in baaaad shape. Old woman with no teeth. She is one of the only family members left who didn’t get out.

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Is it okay that I read this in an Afrikaner accent? And, prayers sent.

Huh! Sounds like Jackson, Mississippi, only on a bigger scale.

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They’re on a strict load shedding schedule right now.
Hours of enforced power outages a day.
Dystopian nightmare.

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Sounds like California next year.

I like to call what is happening in S.Africa the "Africanization" of a place. You can take any country or city, anywhere in the world that at one point was modern and thriving and remove the people that created the civilization replace with africans or their descendants and you'll end up with a shithole, eventually.

I will use the following as examples of Africanization, in descending order of extent of conversion:

Haiti

Zimbabwe

Johannesburg

Detroit

New Orleans

Baltimore

Memphis

All of these places have the same thing in common: Once thriving, modern, beautiful civilizations that have devolved to rotting, crime infested trash heaps when the creators leave and the africans move in. The pictures of Johannesburg today vs a few decades ago are astonishing. It looks like a post apocalyptic movie set now. Like a nuclear bomb went off. Trash everywhere. Buildings rotting. Feral human activities all over the place. Civilization has been lost there.

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Typical home there???

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Thats Cape Town, which is a 14+ hr drive from Johannesburg.

Thats all I got, I did a street view of some random street, its the same style houses except they were falling apart.

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We have the equivalent of your unfortunate aunt right here in the 9th Ward, and am sure in other areas of Orleans and throughout the country.

Elderly people who for whatever reason didn't want to give up their homes in which maybe three generations of family members might have lived in.

Now they're trapped.

When 6 o'clock comes around they lock themselves up in their homes and don't come out until the next morning.

But it's what goes on at night. Roving gangs parading up and down vandalizing, hollering, throwing empty beer bottles up on roofs.

This couple and one or two other similar, elderly families lived practically in the shadow of what used to be called Nicholls Highschool on St. Claude Avenue.

A certain consistency here that doesn't change in what ever the country.

As for South Africa, met some Afrikaaners at a party on the Northshore.

This was while the Sullivan Principle (threat) was still going on and being given extensive publicity by the leftist Press - and before the changeover.

They said that DeBeers was in the forefront of the selling out of their country.

Many years later, the left-leaning show Frontline did a report on the role DeBeers had played in the changeover of that country, so in effect validating the accusation.

But of course it was reported as a positive with what seemed barely restrained elation.

wonder how this happened…

Nelson Mandela plus the deep state.

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It was the fault of European colonization.

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Found out when I was in NE Arkansas last month that they have a bunch of South African farmers come over during farm season to work the farms. Things are so bad back in SA, they have to come here to work on farms and make any kind of money. They then take it back home to their families. They are like latino workers in the US, except they are not just allowed in freely, they have to jump through hoops and then have to go back after work is over.