CONTEXT: Modern South Africa is a shitshow. There has been near constant loadshedding (https://mg.co.za/news/2023-02-20-south-africa-edges-closer-towards-stage-eight-load-shedding/)
crippling the country for the past 18 months, as a consequence of the near apocalyptic levels of corruption, endemic stupidity of the ANC ruling party of South Africa and the National energy provider ESKOM.
Corruption is soooo bad that security vehicles need to follow the lorries from Coalmine to coalstation just to ensure that coal isn't stolen along the way. What's r-slurred is that ESKOM and south africa could have even dealt with the odd missing coal loads, but the fricking thieves fill the lorries with rocks to make up for the loss of weight upon arrival, this means that Coal power generator stations which were designed to burn coal and not fricking hard shrapnel rocks break down and get clogged and need to be cleaned. As you can imagine, this isnt tenable forever
In spite of this strangling of the already struggling post-COVID RSA Economy, south africans had a bit of hope last year as the previous eskom Kang CEO got the boot after a decade of corruption, and a Mayo experienced CEO had arrived like a caucozoid Knight in shining armour to save the day.
Unfortunately, In spite of AndrΓ© de Ruyter's herlculean one-man-army efforts at warring against corruption in ESKOM and the ANC governments' entrenched nepotism, ESKOM kept breaking down in every single of our 9 provinces, and the Unions at ESKOM were almost militant in their insanity when it came to dragging their feet whenever de Ruyter tried to change literally anything for the better
And since South Africans are just as wingcucked as their burger counterparts, many black peeps and ANC apologists kept blaming the new hWhite CEO for the problems he inherited from the previous management frickups going on for about 20 years.
He did a lot of novel things in spite of the shitshow, like implementing a better more spread out timetable for managing powerspread amongst vulnerable time zones in RSA, and improving upon the top heavy upper management by firing parasites left and right.
Eventually by about August last year, people began to learn from the rumour grapevine that De Ruter has been under astronomical pressure from the ESKOM upper management, from the EFF and electric unions, from fricking gobmint, and even from hitmen. Apparantly he got death-threats constantly from shaking the money making system that was ESKOM's corrup money leech, and had to start going to office in a bullet proof vest with private ex-military security gaurds.
Eventually he gave in the towel after his wife and children started getting death threats. The reason this shitshow is getting traction today, is De Ruyter has finally GTFOing from ESKOM with his immediate informal resignation and began singing like a canary on a review.
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/energy/475639-attempted-murder-on-eskom-ceo-andre-de-ruyter.html
If you guys give a shit: here is the formal 50 minutes interview at eNCA https://www.enca.com/shows/my-guest-tonight-annika-larsen-22-february-2023
Also by the way eNCA is another private news network after the prime SABC channels (South African Broadcasting Corporation) became corrupt and wingcucked into shit (similar to the BBC, aka the Big Bong Cucked channel), so private channels blew up over the internet.
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Yeah, just modern south africa lol
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It was actually substantially powerful on the world stage when it had apartheid. People don't want you to know that.
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The first successful heart transplant in the world was conducted in South Africa by a South African surgeon.
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Another win for Black Excellence!
Right?
Right???
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Is it weird Iβm trying to find out whyβd she work for a Republican?
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The parties were not as deeply at each other's throats before Gringrich in the 90s
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Dude died in 2001, it took her 15 years to talk about it?
Also I believe she was a lobbyist at the time, so working under a republican makes sense.
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Apartheid was like black kids in the 90s who grew up hating the police for stop and frisk which was really shitty to live under, but not knowing what life was like before the tough on crime bills got put through.
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It's notable in SA because it was actually functional for the a long time.
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I wonder what changed
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They stopped listening to
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Had they not been hit with international sanctions under apartheid it would still be that way. White oppression in south africa was so good,
crossed the entire continent to go be oppressed instead of live free.
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It was always a shitshow but in the 30s - early 80s it had a first world tier government that actually functioned. Now if you send mail from one aide of the country to the other, it will either never arrive or take 6 months to get there. The violent crime rate is higher than it was during the civil war lmao.
Pretty based as the mayoids unironically deserve it for mostly being Nazis and the africans deserve it for being commies.
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