https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Rail_Agency_of_South_Africa
Sike! It's April foools! I'm actually talking about LOCOMOTIVE trains, not trap trains 
Right, greetings Dramastrags!
Today Imma talk a bit about some truly r-slurred trains drama from PRASA - the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa. Like ESKOM and most other public entities touched by the corrupting tendrils of the ANC ruling party, PRASA has slowly corroded in efficiency and worth over the past 25 years.
Even as far back as 20 years ago the corruption and inefficiency of ANC nepotism-elected PRASA leaders meant that all small and large businesses jumped ship from using our once proud railway system to transport necessary godds, to using private Trucking companies, which gradually became the main mode of transport of goods throughout RSA. It's also the reason much of our road infrastructure degrades so fast, and that there are so many potholes - too much heavy trucking over roads built never to withstand such heavy erosion, but town forced to rely on private trucking just to remain alive, cuz you've all seen how worthless ESKOM is - the same principle applies to PRASA.
You can read the article, but the short and sweet of it is that PRASA leadership under the ANC party, basically ran the fricking institution into the ground. The watershed moment for even letting the black public and the ANC admit that PRASA and the South African railway system for human and goods transport had gone the direction of the dinosaurs, happened back in 2015 when the public learned through a series of comedy events that PRASA's Chief engineer is a fricking r-slur , and that his credentials are faked.
CONTETX 1: PRASA orders new trains.
South Africa used to literally be able to build their own trains, just as easily as they built their own tanks, Ratels and reverse engineered Mirage jets from the French because they cucked the french, by only ordering a few, and being like sorry Froggies
, we can build the rest on our own.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Cheetah
https://smokeongo.co.za/south-africas-forgotten-fighter-jet/
The point is under the Union of South AFrica, we were engineering wise even capable of building fighter jets holding their own against MIGs. The 25 years since up until 2015, when it became apparent South Africa's aging train cars, and our absolute lack of railway construction industry, meant that RSA would have to expend billions to import from Europe to revitalize our decaying Railway transport system.
The public was divided, but at least this meant we could actually transport many more people, since so many locomotives and their accompanying cars have literally rusted into disuse from lack of care and maintenance
CONTETX 2: The new very expensive trains don't fricking fit on many railways..... 
So once the actual fricking trains and railway-cars arrived the shitshow began, as journ*lists uncovered pretty quickly that they don't fit, in spite of numerous warnings by the few and aging mayo engineers still working under PRASA till their retirement packages turned in, the dipshit dipfrick leadership still went ahead and ordered an astronomical waste of traincars that are not
And it's a disaster, the trains are designed according to Spanish/European standard, and they are too tall for like half of RSA tracks, they would literally scrape off the top of electrical wiring, and crash into the top of certain tunnels.
https://www.news24.com/news24/sas-r600-million-train-blunder-20150704
Luckily the media started making a big row about this terminal insanity, because the galaxy brained PRASA leadership 
would have continued to waste another FRICKING 3.5 billion rands to order more of the same shit that's incompatible for much of RSA's locomotive infrastructure. It's mindblowing the stupidity.
CONTETX 3:Public finds out the coloured guy in charge is unqualified. 
https://www.politicsweb.co.za/politics/prasas-daniel-mtimkulu-only-an-engineering-technol
One of the opposition parties, the Freedom Front, aka the RSA equivalent of the chud Republican party did a very quick investigation and found the r-slur 
primarily in charge of this financial disaster, was not an actual engineer, but he occupied the chief fricking engineering post of a public organization of the entire country. A lot of journ*lists started crying but the fricker still wouldn't go to jail
CONTETX 4: Public finds out how FUBAR the South African railway system actually is.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2021-04-13-how-prasa-was-looted-and-left-for-scrap/
It became apparent, the entire PRASA leadership was employed exclusively through BEE (Black Economic Empowerment), and that none of them obtained their roles through merit, the worse is that they had systematically looted much of the money meant for repair and maintenance over the years, that had led to the necessity for importing railway cars overseas (similar to the russians looting their army resources up until an unexpected invasion happened). Of course litearally nothing happened to these ghouls, because the black population of RSA had no political will to keep their elected leaders to standard, thus every consecutive corrupt leadership would just keep getting replaced with an equally corrupt and incompetent set of fools.
It goes on and on
https://mybroadband.co.za/news/government/190408-prasas-missing-billions.html
And on....and on....
https://www.news24.com/citypress/News/prasas-train-fleet-needs-brakes-20200203
https://ewn.co.za/2016/11/30/prasa-contracts-worth-r24-bln-investigated-for-criminality
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I love your SA posting, keep them coming
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Absolutely fascinating insight into the country. Feels like Empire of Dust where they had infrastructure but let everything rot through incompetence and corruption.
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This movie seems like an African Rush Hour, only it's a documentary and they're both labourers, not cops.
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I gotta watch that again so good
Imagine being berated by a mainlander Chinese and him being right
Itβs on archive.org https://archive.org/details/empire-of-dust_DVD_Quality
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I love this video because the asian guy wasn't even trying to be mean or bully him, he speaks to the black guy and shames him the exact same way a Chinese father would his own son for fricking things up.
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Is that black dude speaking fluent mandarin?
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Part of the tragedy of Empire of Dust is that the black guy is insanely talented but he's trapped in a shithole. He speaks fluent Chinese, French, English, and several African languages; he savvily navigates the corrupt Congolese bureaucracy; he manages an army of illiterate workers who don't even speak the same language. In America he could be a Rhodes scholar or a VP; in the Congo, the best job he can get is translator for a smug
paver.
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And the US would totally take him, but imagine how hard that screws your country when you can't keep anyone with actual talent from leaving.
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Would the USA take him? It's not clear if he has anything impressive on paper, not even a formal education.
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I guess it would depend on a lot of things, but in theory countries are clambering to attract people like this.
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