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  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I mean life is shit here with super high unemployment, but I don’t know about “collapse”. People have been going hard on the “South Africa is going to collapse any day now” post 1994 (wonder why 🤔🤔🤔) and I don’t see it happening. Lots of quality of life measurements have actually improved since then.

      • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        I mean we’re still going in a bad way. Issues such as corruption, inequality, rolling electricity blackouts/ load shedding, unemployment and austerity politics are all major issues in South Africa. Zuma was just on a level of shameless corruption that really can’t be compared to many other world leaders. Ramaphosa is not a great president, but he’s certainly better than Zuma was, and I’d say better than Mbeki too (but that’s an unpopular opinion in South Africa).

        If you want statistics, you can look at the data from the lastest 2022 census to see how things have improved in some ways.

  • AbbysMuscles [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    I blearily watched this over my lunch break. The title is more clickbait; the bulk of the video explains the nation’s chronic electricity issues. It touches on a lot of surface aspects but barely dives into any of it. Overall it’s slop but didn’t seem very reactionary

    • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Yeah the electricity stuff is really bad. The country went from 58% electrification in 1996 to 96% now, but we have rolling electricity blackouts thanks to incompetence, corruption and austerity politics.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Ok, let me get in on this. I predict the complete collapse of Cape Verde. Their desperate lack of graphic deisgners is not sustainable and will for sure lead the country down the path of ruin in the coming… weeks? Look at their flag and tell me that the graphic design situation in that country does not pose a serious risk to life and limb of every one of their however many citizens they have.