South Africa has collapsed, here’s why:

Submitted by Mary Christine

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1630436052723720193.html

Part 1: Intro
Part 2: The wasteland
Part 3: Societal collapse
Part 4: Final outcome
Part 5: Doing good

2. [Part 1: Intro]

South Africa is a beautiful country and home to many unique languages and cultures, such as the Afrikaner (or Boer). We have a base load of around 70 million people, access to both sea and land trade and are considered a great tourist destination.

3. We live in a truly beautiful country. A place like no other. Our winters are short, and summers long.. our country is huge too. I love this land, as did my forefathers who built it. But here is what they’re not telling you.

4. [Part 2: The wasteland]

Buckle up.

5. Our infrastructure is just short of completely obliterated. Infrastructure required for immediate and long term access to life in general is either non existent or hanging on by a string. Here’s a short list:
6. * Sewage treatment works – more than half are offline. And those are working, aren’t effective. circleofblue.org/2022/world/a-t…
7. * Water processing works – of the millions of km’s of pipping, we only have an average of 64% access rate to fresh drinking water. businesstech.co.za/news/lifestyle…

The system is dying. Blackouts are making it worse.

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