Midwest Chick's Place

 I was talking with a lady from South Africa last week who moved to the US several years ago.  She does go back for visits and has relatives that keep her informed as to goings-on.  

Among the things she mentioned were the rolling blackouts as well as replacement of white workers, regardless of the qualifications of those replacing them.

From Not the Bee:

Power rationing is being conducted to keep the national grid from collapsing, leaving people without power for 10 hours or more per day.

Most of the people of South Africa have lost access to refrigeration, education, communication services, medical services, and work. Over two-thirds of businesses have laid off employees or closed because of the power outages.

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 Since the end of Apartheid in the 1990s, South Africa’s government has adopted a replacement strategy to replace white people in every field with black people.

There was just one big problem: Apartheid had never allowed for the training of black engineers who knew how to run power plants.

Unfortunately, South Africa threw themselves into their replacement project with little worry about the technical details and drove all the highly trained white engineers out of the country, mostly to Arab nations like the United Arab Emirates.

 This lady said that a lot of people, black and white, are hoping for a color-blind government and that Mandela was the last good president.

I wish them luck.