Why South Africa Is In Crisis

South Africa is experiencing a massive energy crisis. In a day, South Africans can go without electricity for up to 12 hours. These rolling electricity blackouts are known as load-shedding and affect all aspects of life in the country, from the water supply to the employment rate. But why is this happening?

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[pm]

Time for SA to take responsibility for its own actions. SA is now a failed state.

[miss-nomer]

Wow, the Apartheid government built all that infrastructure, and when it was abolished, the power grid and everything else crumbled and South Africa became like the rest of Africa. How confusing.

[malcolmxxx]

Calling townships "Black working class" is quite misleading, considering majority of people there are unemployed.

[maxrebo]

And the majority will re-elect the ANC. Forests voting for axes, because they’re partially wood too.

[anthonymanderson]

This loadshedding problem also occurs in much of africa not just south africa. This problem is mainly as a result of firing competent staff and replacing them with those who aren't capable of working in the energy sector as well as corruption.

[justinhaslam-lucas]

How on earth can you write a report without covering the corruption that goes on in the coal industry, and Eskom reaching as far as the attempted murder of Eskom's CEO. Aljazeera's reporting has fallen to a new and unexpected low!!

[ALeaud]

ROFL! I love how this report is somehow trying to blame apartheid for this and not the socialist ANC's failed policies. Good one, Al Jazeera. I'm sure the "settler colonialist" state did this.

[alexurfantasy]

It’s so sad to see a once developed, beacon of hope in the African continent, back peddle and go dark 😢

[dienar]

Proudly brought to SA by the anti-apartheid movement and its backers!

Their slogans were:

- Disinvestment
- liberation before education...


What a success

Disinvestment

[mgithaiga]

Exactly 23 years ago the South Africans were laughing at us Kenyans when we were power rationing, the joke was that God said 'Let there be light except in Kenyan' Now the tide has turned and they are the ones without electricity

[zaynubnawaz]

It's really sad to see the state that South Africa is in. You should see the condition of our roads..

[scottmac-cheeserae]

30 years ago the South African majority got an epic opportunity when they were handed a pretty decent country in the name of fairness, but then they couldn't stop stealing everything. Note to self: Never ever give up power to those who may not value what I have built.

[davidlang]

we used to be so hopeful for South Africa after Mandela won his election as the first President of SA in 1994.
then the ANC gave into corruption and governance was thrown out the window. its now doing its best to be Zimbabwe.

[memeguyTM]

You fail to mention that the black townships don't pay for for electricity in general so that causes other areas to carry these

The bottom line is that the ANC, a majority black led party has failed the country.

[Dsbester]

It’s so disappointing to see an incomplete/ inaccurate report like this come from such a (usually) trustworthy source.
The higher load shedding in black areas are due to non-payment for electricity, if the same non-payment happened in white areas the electricity will be disconnected and the user cut off completely.
SA suffers from reverse racism, the world should be as outraged about it as the were as racism under apartheid.

[JEshots]

In Nigeria 🇳🇬 we can imagine how it feels like to not have electricity. I want you guys to also do some research on Nigeria electricity and maybe release a documentary on it, thanks.

[howzit]

Not sure how it's energy racism when the people on townships generally don't pay for power in the first place. Also blaming the energy crisis on Apartheid when the black government has been looting the tax coffers for 30 years is a nonsense.

[jeshurunfarm]

This is not a raise issue, its a class issue. The top brass of the ANC Government and the top brass of Eskom are living in the old historical white areas.

[gelayegudisa]

How on earth the nation allow a 48 million dollars damage per day?

[anb]

South Africa turned from a first world country to a third world country within a decade