Greetings Dramatards, it's fricking cold in South Africa currently, and it's snowing in Sutherland, in the Northern Cape Province.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=458233760502109
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1147243579819012
And snow is extremely rare in south africa, so this is an especially cold winter
At least for all of the inland provinces, record low temperatures, and all following on the tailcoats of the last El Nino weather phenomenon, means while the 2 years prior were abnormally wet, this year has been aggressively cold
https://snowreport.co.za/best-snow-photos-from-south-africa-lesotho-early-june-2024/
It's a running meme/steriotype that boers are immune to cold, or allergic to longpants
Which is where the gay boy shorts uniforms of the 1980s came from.
Lesotho (the country in the middle of SA) is also more prone to snowing, compared to the rest of the surrounding nation, due to its high elevation, and numerous mountain ranges.
Even high mountains in provinces not at all prone to snow, has light snow coverage on their peaks.
Anyways point is it is abnormal conditions in SA currently, even though SA is usually already pretty cold at this stage of the year in its climatic history.
All except the Free State and much of the Eastern Provinces of South Africa, in which regions are currently combatting some of the worst and most intense wildfires of the past 5 years.
https://www.earthnews365.co.za/update-of-fires-in-the-free-state/
This is because places like the Free State are very arid Semi-Deserts in large portions of the province, and the winter counter-intuitively has higher rates and risks of forest and veld fires than in the Summer. This is because while summer's heat definitely aggravates circumstances to high risks of literal spontaneous combustion, it is also the raining season for inlands in most of the country, and consequently there would be a watering of the earth to combat the heat.
In Winter, especially in the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal provinces, despite the cold, the velds and forests are much more prone to combustion. This is because of the hyper drought which yearly besets southern africa, and the Cold counter-intuitively aggravates dry circumstances. The cold means less evaporation and less clouds, and the freezing of water which prevents the evaporation of whichever water mediums remaining even further.
When Cold Fronts arrive, they can bring massive freak winds with them, and it is in high wind situations where veld fires really thrive. This recent Sunday a massive Cold Front froze the whole center of the country over
and brought with it 70km/h consistent winds, which are abnormal in their strength and consistency.
Several thousand small wildfires have been breaking out hourly for the past 3 days, and several hundred fires continue to burn in the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal whom were both hardest hit.
https://www.facebook.com/FSUFPA/
The fast sustaining winds meant that even the flicker of embers would explode into roaring flames
as the extreme drought made every leaf and blade of grass a tinderbox
i was helping my father and some other boers here in the province driver hydrant and fire-firefighting vehicles around yesterday afternoon and night.
Which is a lot less heroic than it sounds, basically I was driving a water-trailer around for the real men to do the hard work.
Farmers have organized into Brandwag, or burning vigilance since forever, and a smoke trail on the horizon usually has bakkies scrambled to come to the aid of your neighbours, even as out of sheer interest it is in your desire to extinguish such flames in their cradle, before they become an uncontrollable firestorm spreading outwards everywhere, additionally the wind can always always change.
The biggest r-sluration is that most farmers and municipal teams working are usually all amateurs and most commercial farmers of even the small type usually has a shitty fire-fighting wagon in their store-house of 5 years old and only once tested, as per regulations,
and thus the 1st responders always being the most untrained farmers who've never even held a firehose in their lives is always comical in our ineptitude, before the Provincial Professional Firefigting response squads arrive which usually can be hours if not half a day late as the country is large.
There's this one 80 year old grandma lady who still works for the Municipality whom have been dousing flames since sunday afternoon - she says the perpetual amateur mistake municipal workers and boers not used to fighting fire makes, is not to totally overdose simmering flames,
as perpetually the teams had to go back and re-extinguish fires because they had failed to completely douse embers in their totality, and certain carbon remains, even surrounded by water, eventually dries in the extremely dry Free State, and literally fricking begins anew!
Here is a professional rural firefighting vehicle unit, if it looks unprofessional because it's not a classic Euro/American city firetruck then realize that a regular 4x4 vehicle with a trailer is by far the superior required vehicle for transporting water over seldom tread rural dusty dirtroads in the Free State and KwaZulu-Natal. Since the potholes, underdevelopment, extreme isolation and offroad rugged terrain conditions, means that fire-lorries meant for cities, are completely unsuited for the velds of South Africa.
there are however sometimes special dedicated water transporting vehicles used, but these often are too specialized for poor municipalities - a provincial Toyota 4x4 with a water-trailer works just as effectively as fancy crap.
anyways just telling you strags this, cuz i haven't responded to the shitload of comments of yesterday, will fix that soon
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What's even the deal with this place? Like were they part of South Africa and revolted to break away? Are they on good terms now? I assume the main distinguishing factor for why the borders are where they are involves ethnic groups (since almost everything in Africa seems divided on ethnic lines). It just seems so odd to have a country completely surrounded by another, much larger one - do they have much autonomy? Presumably if South Africa told them frick off border's closed, they'd basically be besieged lmao.
And, more humorously, does Lesotho have access to Starlink while South Africa doesn't?![:marseyderp: :marseyderp:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyderp.webp)
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Lesotho has Starlink
Lesotho also had a complicated relationship with the White south africa, in that their monarchs dealt with the Apartheid regime by acquiescing much subservience as one of the Bantu Homelands, and thus was allowed independence, because it was under firm rule of the UK in 1966 instead of the Union of South Africa commonwealth, when bongland did the accounts and reaalized it needed to get rid of its colonies
So it went into this weird situation where it was a black independent nation nestled within SA for 30 years of white rule.
Tribalism ruled its politics more than ideology like communism ever could, and the ANC never had a hold there, thus there were no insurrection during the Apartheid years, and the Union of SA regime had no reason to suppress its independence.
Coupled with the fact that the tiny nation is a rugged resourceless mountainous backwater, meaning it's people basically lived like they had in 1970, like they had in 1070, but with T-shirts. Something like 80% of adult men in Lesotho work in SA, because there is literally no work/financial future in the nation itself, and return home to their wives/families over the long vacations
There is inconsequential borer control, because fricking nobody in SA wants to live in Lesotho, and all the men in Lesotho come home during the holidays anyways.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03768350601165983
https://migratewithq.com/blog-post/work-permit-south-africa-for-lesotho/
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Fun fact: the Kingdom of Lesotho has a Catholic monarch!, this makes him the only non-European Catholic monarch anywhere in the world, and the last Christian monarch in Africa, following the overthrow of Ethiopia's Solomonic Dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letsie_III
When groypers want a keyed tradcath monarch that physically looks like them, this is their main candidate
![:brazilmutt: :brazilmutt:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/brazilmutt.webp)
!historychads !catholics
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Bait idea: All keyed tradcaths appeal to the Catholic monarch of Lesotho for a new Catholic homeland, we all move there and improve and invest in the economy though everyones skills and resources and create a new and dynamic economy, while boosting the population with a bunch of intelligent immigrants actually interested in having kids because they're Catholic, making Lesotho into the Switzerland of the southern hemisphere.
That would sure bait some people lol bussy
!catholics
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Also forgot to write that EsWatini (formerly known as Swaziland) is also a monarchy, and an absolute monarchy at that!, but their extremely Dramamaxxed North Koreamaxxed Andrew Tatemaxxed king follows traditional religion, and he is also a.....![:marseydarkxd: :marseydarkxd:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydarkxd.webp)
![:marseysoutherner: :marseysoutherner:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysoutherner.webp)
![:marseylolcow: :marseylolcow:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseylolcow.webp)
![:marseydramautist: :marseydramautist:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydramautist.webp)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mswati_III
Seriously, religion-aside,
@kaamrev, there should be an effortpost about the lolcow monarch of EsWatini/Swaziland that is arguably even more eccentric, spergy, and dramapilled than Kim Jong-un himself, Mswati III is:
1. An absolute monarch with complete control over all government institutions and legal immunity from prosecution, this nibba is literally above the law![:marseyobey: :marseyobey:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyobey.webp)
2. As a result, he practices the ancient Spergocrat tradition of mass arrests, torture, brutal crackdowns against dissent and protests, kidnappings, assassinations, and media censorship
![:marsey1984: :marsey1984:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marsey1984.webp)
3. He was crowned absolute monarch in 1986 at the age of 18, and til this very day he and his mom rule together in a joint rule
![:autism: :autism:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/autism.webp)
4. He has 15 wives (his father had 70)![:marseymormon: :marseymormon:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseymormon.webp)
5. He has 45 children (his father had 210)
(According to the Swaziland National Trust Commission, King Sobhuza II had 70 wives, who gave him 210 children between 1920 and 1970. About 180 children survived infancy, and 97 sons and daughters were reported living as of 2000. At his death he had more than 1,000 grandchildren)
6. Leads an extremely sigma grindset playboy lifestyle, with luxurious cars, parties, and palaces, while his country is absolutely miserable even by Sub-Saharan African standards![:marseygangster: :marseygangster:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseygangster.webp)
7. He Mormonmaxxes by kidnapping women that he wants to marry, at least one of his wives committed suicide over living in a de-facto cult![:marseyblops2chadcel: :marseyblops2chadcel:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyblops2chadcel.webp)
8. He proposed forcibly sterilizing and/or branding HIV-pozzed folx![:marseykingcrown: :marseykingcrown:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseykingcrown.webp)
9. Owns a collection of luxury watches worth millions of dollars![:marseycapitalistmanlet: :marseycapitalistmanlet:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycapitalistmanlet.webp)
10. He looks like the pickle neighbor from Spongebob
![https://i.rdrama.net/images/17205489338899522.webp](https://i.rdrama.net/i/l.webp)
!ranchers !historychads !r-slurs !BIPOCs
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Wtf what happened to Swaziland? I loved that name![:marseycry: :marseycry:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseycry.webp)
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He changed the name of the country because foreignoids always confused the country with Switzerland, and also because EsWatini is the Swazi language name of the country, as "Swaziland" is le heckin English colonizer name, but tbh it is quite clear that he changed the name simply to avoid confusion with Switzerland, this "le heckin colonizer" trope is just a PR excuse, and Mswati III in fact has a very good relationship with white businessmen that are descendants of English colonists and still hold a ton of influence in the country.![:marseyretardchad: :marseyretardchad:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyretardchad.webp)
We !macacos also commonly confuse the names of Switzerland with Sweden (SuΓΓ§a vs. Suéçia), and Slovakia and Slovenia (EslovΓ‘quia vs. EslovΓͺnia)
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I can never get this right unless I stop to think about it.
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Same tbh
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This guy is even better than that weirdo King of Thailand.
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SMH really didn't live up to his dad
How do they choose the next monarch where there's 180 possible heirs?
Also, imagine one of your brothers being 50 years older than you lmao
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isn't this literally the whole deal w/ islam? i thought the entire point behind having a harem was to produce so many potential heirs that at least one of them wouldn't be a frickup (versus various european monarchies at the time where they'd have 0-3 potential heirs and sometimes they were all r-slurred)
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I mean I guess for Kings. The average Paki gets to marry their first cousin
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The Dark Continent needs less psuedo-Marxist warlord states or corrupt Islamo-nationalist dictatorships and more epic totalitarian monarchist regimes![:marseyagreesuperspeed: :marseyagreesuperspeed:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyagreesuperspeed.webp)
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He sounds your typical sub-Saharan dictator.
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You sat down and wrote all this shit. You could have done so many other things with your life. What happened to your life that made you decide writing novels of bullshit here was the best option?
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Neighbor look like Magic Johnson
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Truly heck on earth
Looks like the current temp is 32f/0c lol kinda colder than I expected
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That's a nice shot but have a look on StreetView and that's pretty much all you get. Rocks, grass, a few shrubs. It's like Iceland but landlocked so you can't go fishing. How do you even live off that?
(the answer these days is premium hiker
tourism, but they don't know these people exist)
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That was a mistake. You're about to find out the hard way why.
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lesotho sucked off the bongs in exchange for protection from kaamrev's ancestors
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