Its so sad because people are complicit in crimes against themselves (and humanity) yet are totally blind to what they are doing to themselves and others.😢 Its a serious case if stockholm syndrome where you love, defend and enable your abuser while making enemies of those who are trying to wake you up and tell you the truth. Mental slavery is the worst form of slavery.
We will have to accept we all have to live in huts without electricity.... I'm seriously searching for accommodation, I want to cut my rent to below R3.5K...a month in KwaZulu-Natal. From R12.5K down to R8.5K .... and now down to R3.5K....
Oh contraire, it will be so much worse than Zimbabwe I'm willing to bet. Look at Zimbabwe with a population of 16 million, vs South Africa's 60 million. So, if the ANC have their way, that's like what? 4 times as bad, if not worse they have so much more to lose.
@@antonjoubert6980 if you are South African 🇿🇦 you should know who is apartheid and answer my question what did apartheid do to make sure those who takes over where they have left they don’t fail? You can’t deprive people from equal opportunity for success then after they took over except them to succeed. Black South Africans are not as stupid as you think they are if apartheid never existed or introduced inferior education act called Apartheid Bantu Education Act 1953 aiming at training the children for the manual labour and menial jobs that the government deemed suitable for those of their race, and it was explicitly intended to inculcate the idea that Black people were to accept being subservient to white South Africans. I believe apartheid has contributed significantly in terms of making sure majority of society doesn’t succeed in the future and what happening today is what apartheid has planted into majority of South African society.
@@Jay-rd3hnApartheid was only the system that prevented the ANC and their supporters to turn SA in a typical African shithole failed state for 49 years and built the infrastructure and economy that the ANC parasite has been living off the past 30 years. End apartheid in 1994 and after that, nothing prevented the ANC commies to do what parasites and many Africans do the do the best, consume everything in an orgy of corruption…..
If we can't compete with overseas prices, there are serious problems here. Labour's and union's are to blame plus government bbbeee programs. And government wants to tell you who to employ. No one would be interested in investing here
Last time I checked Ramaphosa cannot fix things. Inviting Nigerians without documentation. Zama zama ( undocumented foreigners digging gold and protected by our law and ANC local lesders) do as they wish. Pass one pass all educational system.
@@Shaka-b2j anc is making space for china to come in..not to mention russia...We are heading to become a.Communist country..People are walking with their .. ""eyes wide shut""..yes " shut Not open..😊
I can't understand why people went to such extremes to liberate SA and then just turn it into a nonfunctional broken poor circus after 30 years of liberation.
The Afrikaans community liberated blacks in the 70s. They turned around and demanded the country as their own! When has the Bantu and Nguni land thieves of SADC ever gone back to Central and Northern Africa? The English class white liberal wanted Democracy, they wanted blacks flooding our borders and white South Africans landless! Go ask the Rhodesians living in KZN and the White populace of Western Cape who wanted a democracy and Africa no South African wanted here why things are so bad, why they refused to honor the agreement of 94’ and why they don’t want the republic? You’ll find all these idiots are 1st generation Europeans who are to thick to lead, to stupid to work and to pathetic to wipe their own arse! For the last 5 decades after Afrikaans leader John Vorster abolished apartheid and liberated blacks they are poorer today than they were then. For 5 decades the blacks have stolen the economy dry and not once have they contributed towards the economy! 80% of blacks are without work, they the masses that refuse to leave and they will be the reason for civil unrest! 10 million whites simply cannot be responsible for the continent and 300 million land thieving SADC squatters never mind the Stone Age culture and 30% mentality the numbers alone proves it’s a failure and they are to pathetic to do anything for themselves
Blame apartheid for their failures, but will never admit the failure of their BBBEE policies, the labour laws and all other laws and regulations that is an albatross around our necks that prevents economic growth. We are just another failed African country period.
Because they have the backing of the DA with everything they do and have the same NWO puppetmasters as the DA, so they still rule as if they have 60% majority….
Well Socialism is all fun until you run out of other people’s money, Fuck the ANC parasite, they turned SA in a failed state and destroyed our manufacturing base and does not have the ability to fix or improve ANYTHING, even if they had the will. They have the feces touch💩
Shure do you have a few million Rand for every qualified and skilled worker? Even for those who don't have work or money to move? No.... the only way to fix this is manger and radical changes. And the problem with that is that 80% of the people in S.A. Will blow their pot lids at once. Plus you'll have atleast 10+ external countries in your country to steal your resources themselves while stomping on the 20% who actually want to make a difference. Because it'll be rac...t.
@malumachado4561 True thats why I feel pity for many South Africans. For most its already too late. But in truth the smart South Africans were making 'plans' after the 92 referendum. Others got caught up in the Mandela delusion and are now dealing with the consequences.
@@jw841 Europe is only starting to wake up now, but they have allowed so many migrants in, it is going to get worse before it gets better, by then SA might be doing OK and start to prosper.
@@gysgijsbers4202 With the current property expropriation bill. I don't see South Africa propering anytime soon. Seems to be going the opposite direction of prosperity pretty fast.
Socialist mentality. The world has already accepted capitalism now we have to determine what type of capitalism we want. Socialism is not a bad way of thinking and is actually very good for wealth distribution. The problem is we don't have anyone in government that understands how to execute that correctly. China is living proof of how socialism can make a country strong
@@jizzied3090 There is no such thing currently that is Capitalism. If there was there would be FREE markts and no regulations, protectionism, subsidies, controls etc. That is why the world is in a mess. Socialism hasnt worked anywhere. China is not socialist nor communist. The government and the way it operates as an entity is communist, but the private sector is probably the closest thing to capitalism there is. There is no prefect system, just trade offs. Morally speaking everything should be voluntary.
@ China is bankrupt. Socialism has and never will work. Wealth distribution?🤣🤣🤣. That’s what poor or unemployed want. We work to have nice things, not to let someone els have nice things. Socialism, eventually everyone just does nothing and expects something.🤣🤣🤣. Thanks but no thanks.
Ja, bur Arcelor Mittal will carry on producing flat steel at its Vanderbijlpark and Saldanha facilities. Flat steel is used for automobile manufacture. The Vereeniging and Newcastle works that produce long steel for railway lines are being shut down. Clients buying flat steel are mostly in the private sector, who actually pay. Long steel is used by Transnet, if it can be bothered to build railway lines, and even if they do order long steel, they will take a long time paying, if ever, and there will be the usual corruption involved.
I think their under the impression that ALL other businesses was built by whites so destroying them, getting them to leave etc. Is their plan then they will try to rebuild on their own minus ANY resources. This is such a BIG car accident of a view on business and funny enough it makes sense like especially now this is sabotage on purpose.
You cannot correct a country that is broken with infrastructure spending .... because you don't have money to do it! Only the foreign investors have money! List the SOEs on the JSE ASAP!
To maintain + upgrade a facility like eskom, make profit plus supply affordable electricity to uplift millions of poor ppl will be a huge challenge at least well into the medium term - more so if u have to also feed greedy fingers + their parties.
@@Ariel2580t The US has 350 electricity businesses and Google Between 2013 and 2023, the average residential electricity price in the U.S. increased by less than 1% ...
I hear what you say, who will take their place, MK+Eff, forget about the DA, they will never rule this country again, so help me with a new gov that will do things the right way, in your opinion?
@charmainecarstens1 This is Africa, your chances as Mohammed Ali said, slim to none, but if that idea makes you happy, no problem with me, i have learned many years ago never to trust or depend on any gov.
Almost all the parts used to assemble cars here are imported from the OEM. You cannot have locally produced pumps, engine blocks etc made locally and not conform to a global standard. The same is true of trucks and mining equipment.
Don't forget the $110 million dollar fine in 2016 on said steel company for anti competitive behaviour, I'm sure that cemented good relations with government.
Thou wakanda was clearly way more advanced and stable (highly prosperous) and using their resources to make things not export raw materials unlike this country
With the motor industry pulling out of this country - we will all go back to horse and carriage/cart - at least save on petrol costs, service costs , tyres, high car installments, car insurance, tracker etc.
True story here. My father took his pension and all his assets with a business partner, they purchased a business that smelts aluminum into molds. When they took over the business, they improved working conditions, automated a few processes given staff more time to do real productive things, etc. When BEEE kicked in real hard, (Insert broken railway company name here) stopped purchasing aluminum parts from the business. A few months later, a guy rocks up to my fathers business, shows them a contract he landed with (Insert broken railway company name here) to smelt/manufacture the parts he was already doing. Essentially the guy wanted to be a middle man and pay 2% + cost. Business closed down, staff lost work and we don't know if the pension will last.
SAn Citizens are in big trouble companies are leaving the country because of ANC catastrophic decisions if we aren't careful this country is going to the direction of Zimbabwe in many ways nothing is going to improve aslong people are in lala land busy
South African infrastructure has been declining even before 1994 but when Anc came into power, infrastructure development was not a priority instead culture of large population depending on state was introduced and culture of free bee's too.
This is not even newsworthy anymore, it is something so endemic to Africa ( with some rare exceptions) that the average South African who lived and worked in both the pre 1994 and post 1994 economic sphere just shrugs in a helpless gesture and then changes the subject to sport or weather.
As an EME supplier to the Motor industry we have seen things get progressively worse. One major concern is BBBEE requirements for vendors/suppliers, the other being their own 'EE' policies, where you can see the numbers really don't add up to 'Equity'.
If Elon Musk is successful in the USA with the DOGE then maybe he should come here for a bit a do the same thing that will sort a lot out especially the wasteful spending
Lekka Aye en See - ministers come to the office, if they pitch, drink tea read a newspaper, have a nap, have lunch, go home...lekker productive day neh!?
I do piping, mittals pipe is a staple, we should not be importing it. Traceability is the difference between scrap pipe and stock. If i buy in china now, then i must fly there to look at each piece and its certificate. Cos trusting them is no option, i saw the coal mills gov ordered from china. We had v to gouge and reweld. I saw the frame of that entire workshop at scaw that is basically as good as scrap after arrival and being incorrect materially. Ive seen the good and bad of chinas pipe fittings. These are not issues we need
They trust certain folks with industry , farming and capital . And sadly the Majority are not in that category. To avoid losing a vast portion of their local business to extortion policies and the power fluctuations, water issues, toad conditions,potentially an extra 4k in taxes for all workers monthly for free healthcare, . Theres too much kak to make rsa worth consideration or reflection on the matter. You know those countries north of us where some immense construction of colonial industrial infrastructure has just been reclaimed by nature and lies in ruin buried in the bush, where tar roads vanish back into the veld, where gorgeous Victorian architecture is completely gutted And de stripped if metals and now over populated and derelict, pock marked walls from armed conflicts, where state of the art fatns and equipment have been stripped for scrap and lie barren unable to feed their people so they all come live here instead, Their colonizerrs packed up and opened shop elsewhere in the world and i can assure you that their investors followed them.
Not long ago we had people saying "if u dont like whats happening here then leave". Well, the consequences of the brains leaving this country is telling
They have all the money now to buy BMW, Mercedes , Ferraris, Ford vehicles they bragged about it, but I reckon are enriching Japanese, European, American companies. 😮
Please do you self a favour and drive Strand Street in Cape Town. Taxi washing their vehicles, paper waste everywhere. Vendors and Taxis creating a Township in the midst of the so-called cleanest city. The City and DA are useless. Good Hope Centre and surroundings are a disgrace. Not mentioning Observerory nor Kgosana Drive. I promise you this is a drop in the sea of the decay in the Western Cape. The reason lawlessness is allowed. People urinating in Adderley Street and everywhere.
Ag skattie, die tor het nie van die blokkie geval - die tor het ge-emmigreer! Die gesamentlike IK van die GNU is in die minus - beperk tot Rande en sente en wel die rande en sente in hulle eie beursies.
The ANC Municipalities destroyed nearly al the small towns in die northern part of SA. Now the towns look like a war zone without clean water etc. To rebuild, are going to take years of hard work and lots of money is needed. You can be sure the rich countries will not donate money, they know will be stolen by the ANC. PLEASE, just stop begging the world to donate money. Lots of people are suffering because of mismanagement and corruption at municipalities. The ANC must be held responsible to rebuild all the towns and get the infrastructure in place as it was
The ANC had one single task after 94 .. give to everyone what was reserved for the few unjustly..but instead they undid. All the good things that were reserved for the few and gave nothing to the rest while stealing everything.. they looted this country in the name of the ANC .. our Parents were called Njaffers .. so that. Anc exiles and their foreiner friends can come live here in luxury.. As a Black south African im saying it .. we had clean water cheap food good jobs good houses good roads good schools under white people and look at what we have under black people .. the disappointment is that they proved the white man right that we are unble to govern and that is sad.
The car manufacturers like VW are struggling in all markets globally this has nothing to do with the steel plant closing. While the steel plant closing will be a massive blow to the economy the fact that the economy has stagnated and has chased investors is a good thing because when the ANC is removed from power it will be very easy for companies to invest, build and show massive as an emerging market
South Africa is in a race with many other countries around the world, including the UK, Germany, US and others, to see who will become a preindustrial economy first...! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Thanks,there are duties on imported steel to make Arcellor Metal competitive,we pay a premium for our cars,to support export subsidies.International long steel is 60% cheaper,maybe Arcelor Mittal should look at their efficiencies.
It's SOE Eskom's 1400% increase in prices since 1994... this is what happens if you don't privatize electricity production. SA has 1 electricity producing company, the rest of the worlds' countries have 100s... the US has 350.
@@coffeeandrelaxing A.M.uses gas for the blast furnace and coke gas,electricity is only used in the Arc furnace,US electricity price is .18usd per kwh,SA is the same 0.18kwh,excluding Eskom discounts.
@antonjoubert6980 That will never happen,they are useless,we would pay a lot less for goods if it was a consumer must win principle(most efficient lowest cost),the ANC are a self fulfilling prophecy,we see it,they dont.
@ But the US business taxes is 21%.... In fact, for the entire EU, it has an average of 21% business taxes... South African business taxes is 27% and personal income taxes is the highest in Africa at 45% top marginal personal income taxes.... our fuel tax is also the highest in the world, import duties on cars highest.... etc.. etc...
Let's get this clear as I am reading comments about apartheid. Apartheid was passed into law under Dr Verwoed in the 60's and not under DF Malan in the 40's.
You should post coments on how to leave this country the cheapest way because i dont think there is going to be much work opportunities left within a year from now .
A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices.
ANC, MK and EFF voters
Its so sad because people are complicit in crimes against themselves (and humanity) yet are totally blind to what they are doing to themselves and others.😢 Its a serious case if stockholm syndrome where you love, defend and enable your abuser while making enemies of those who are trying to wake you up and tell you the truth. Mental slavery is the worst form of slavery.
Indeed. They have been voting for aapartheid 2.0 since 1994. They are to blame for this failed state.
@@MorgMorg-uf6psAnd yet blame whites for their problems.
@CharlesRexElizabethRegina because voting doesn't work otherwise they wouldn't let us do it, it's the illusion of choice
They will never stop until they turn SA into a new Zimbabwe
We will have to accept we all have to live in huts without electricity.... I'm seriously searching for accommodation, I want to cut my rent to below R3.5K...a month in KwaZulu-Natal. From R12.5K down to R8.5K .... and now down to R3.5K....
Stone age mindsets lead to stone age conditions
Will not even stop then. The victim mentality will still be here for generations to come
ANC, MK and EFF. South Africa
FRELIMO, Mozambique
ZANU PF, Zimbabwe
SWAPO, Namibia
Oh contraire, it will be so much worse than Zimbabwe I'm willing to bet. Look at Zimbabwe with a population of 16 million, vs South Africa's 60 million. So, if the ANC have their way, that's like what? 4 times as bad, if not worse they have so much more to lose.
ANC after learning about their failure: " We blame apartheid".
You know that us what they'll say
Can I ask a question what did apartheid do to make sure that when ANC or Black government took over all what is happening will not happen?
@@Jay-rd3hnwho is apartheid that he can do anything? That sentence makes no sense?
@@antonjoubert6980 if you are South African 🇿🇦 you should know who is apartheid and answer my question what did apartheid do to make sure those who takes over where they have left they don’t fail?
You can’t deprive people from equal opportunity for success then after they took over except them to succeed. Black South Africans are not as stupid as you think they are if apartheid never existed or introduced inferior education act called Apartheid Bantu Education Act 1953 aiming at training the children for the manual labour and menial jobs that the government deemed suitable for those of their race, and it was explicitly intended to inculcate the idea that Black people were to accept being subservient to white South Africans. I believe apartheid has contributed significantly in terms of making sure majority of society doesn’t succeed in the future and what happening today is what apartheid has planted into majority of South African society.
@@Jay-rd3hnApartheid was only the system that prevented the ANC and their supporters to turn SA in a typical African shithole failed state for 49 years and built the infrastructure and economy that the ANC parasite has been living off the past 30 years. End apartheid in 1994 and after that, nothing prevented the ANC commies to do what parasites and many Africans do the do the best, consume everything in an orgy of corruption…..
If we can't compete with overseas prices, there are serious problems here. Labour's and union's are to blame plus government bbbeee programs. And government wants to tell you who to employ. No one would be interested in investing here
ANC wants to destroy the country and turn it into the shit hole whilst the black people are fast asleep
Good!
PW Botha was right all along
Last time I checked Ramaphosa cannot fix things. Inviting Nigerians without documentation. Zama zama ( undocumented foreigners digging gold and protected by our law and ANC local lesders) do as they wish. Pass one pass all educational system.
We had the Saldanna Steel plant, then the gutterment destroyed ut.
Not to mention places like Iscor in Newcastle in Natal
@@Shaka-b2j anc is making space for china to come in..not to mention russia...We are heading to become a.Communist country..People are walking with their .. ""eyes wide shut""..yes " shut Not open..😊
And Vereeniging.
Lekka BEE 😂😂 There's no medicine to cure stupidity !
Always the descendants of Europe and Americans are going to 😭😭💔
Because 🤎🖤 are taking their stolen things back
@SiyandaZuma-d6g You to dumb to reason with. Piss off !
@SiyandaZuma-d6g Stolen things ? You black people are the ones who do housebreaking !
Its not because the market is too small. It's because of BEE that they won't invest
Oh I see now
What is BEE?
@@GlenroseMakgorogoYour reply is patronizing.
And because of the unionized working class. No business worth it s salt would consider to operate within a nonsense economy like ours.
@mysticjaarse Its apartheid, what do you think is race based laws?
I can't understand why people went to such extremes to liberate SA and then just turn it into a nonfunctional broken poor circus after 30 years of liberation.
The Afrikaans community liberated blacks in the 70s. They turned around and demanded the country as their own! When has the Bantu and Nguni land thieves of SADC ever gone back to Central and Northern Africa? The English class white liberal wanted Democracy, they wanted blacks flooding our borders and white South Africans landless! Go ask the Rhodesians living in KZN and the White populace of Western Cape who wanted a democracy and Africa no South African wanted here why things are so bad, why they refused to honor the agreement of 94’ and why they don’t want the republic? You’ll find all these idiots are 1st generation Europeans who are to thick to lead, to stupid to work and to pathetic to wipe their own arse! For the last 5 decades after Afrikaans leader John Vorster abolished apartheid and liberated blacks they are poorer today than they were then. For 5 decades the blacks have stolen the economy dry and not once have they contributed towards the economy! 80% of blacks are without work, they the masses that refuse to leave and they will be the reason for civil unrest! 10 million whites simply cannot be responsible for the continent and 300 million land thieving SADC squatters never mind the Stone Age culture and 30% mentality the numbers alone proves it’s a failure and they are to pathetic to do anything for themselves
There is still to be one country that could be a success after being liberated
ANC Cadre self enrichment. African Kings mentality. They will have smart cities built for themselves on the backs of the tax payers.
Perhaps “liberate” isn’t the right word…
@ okay lets change the did not want to use obliterate, you have however forced my hand.
Blame apartheid for their failures, but will never admit the failure of their BBBEE policies, the labour laws and all other laws and regulations that is an albatross around our necks that prevents economic growth. We are just another failed African country period.
This is all so sad. The government doesn't care about the country or the citizens. Why does the ANC still think they can throw their weight around?
It seems all those that vote for the ANC/MK/EFF don't care about SA either, just their own selfish needs.
Because they have the backing of the DA with everything they do and have the same NWO puppetmasters as the DA, so they still rule as if they have 60% majority….
Well Socialism is all fun until you run out of other people’s money, Fuck the ANC parasite, they turned SA in a failed state and destroyed our manufacturing base and does not have the ability to fix or improve ANYTHING, even if they had the will. They have the feces touch💩
Stupidity needs no info
Because they're dum.
...Anc should have never ever been allowed to become government
We are so screwed
Phooked, more likely!
Thank you Byron for putting it all out there
Anc is a very very big problem!!
ANC is small problem. The big problem is the voters
all the skill must just leave SA. Theres this undeniable downward spiral that the domkoppe anc cant wrap their head around.
they cant spell maintenance, what you expect
That's the aim...to send yall all packing to whence you came from
Shure do you have a few million Rand for every qualified and skilled worker? Even for those who don't have work or money to move? No.... the only way to fix this is manger and radical changes. And the problem with that is that 80% of the people in S.A. Will blow their pot lids at once. Plus you'll have atleast 10+ external countries in your country to steal your resources themselves while stomping on the 20% who actually want to make a difference. Because it'll be rac...t.
ALL business activities and manufacturing MUST be closed down!!! That is their plan all along !!! Who have given orders for the last 30 years????
de-industrialization a la wef
☝️🎯
I'm glad you can see it, so many in dreamland thinking gov cares for them😂
ANC is doing this to enslave people
Objectives of ANC, since about 1957(?), were:
To make the whites poor
and, : to take away from them everything that Africa has given them
If it wasn't so tragic all this would be hilarious. The incompetence is now legendary. Feel pity for those who are stuck and have no escape plan.
When your "escape plan" is "expropriated without compensation" by two different govts 😮 hard to plan much when tsotsis make the rules.
@malumachado4561 True thats why I feel pity for many South Africans. For most its already too late. But in truth the smart South Africans were making 'plans' after the 92 referendum. Others got caught up in the Mandela delusion and are now dealing with the consequences.
@@jw841 Europe is only starting to wake up now, but they have allowed so many migrants in, it is going to get worse before it gets better, by then SA might be doing OK and start to prosper.
@@gysgijsbers4202 With the current property expropriation bill. I don't see South Africa propering anytime soon. Seems to be going the opposite direction of prosperity pretty fast.
@@jw841 Property disposession will not happen, because we already have a large property owning Black Middle Class.
The decline looks deliberate
So government wants capitalist money with communism mentality. What possibly could go wrong.🤣🤣🤣
Thats communism 101.
...mixing in BEE & SOE!
Socialist mentality. The world has already accepted capitalism now we have to determine what type of capitalism we want. Socialism is not a bad way of thinking and is actually very good for wealth distribution. The problem is we don't have anyone in government that understands how to execute that correctly. China is living proof of how socialism can make a country strong
@@jizzied3090 There is no such thing currently that is Capitalism. If there was there would be FREE markts and no regulations, protectionism, subsidies, controls etc. That is why the world is in a mess. Socialism hasnt worked anywhere. China is not socialist nor communist. The government and the way it operates as an entity is communist, but the private sector is probably the closest thing to capitalism there is. There is no prefect system, just trade offs. Morally speaking everything should be voluntary.
@ China is bankrupt. Socialism has and never will work. Wealth distribution?🤣🤣🤣. That’s what poor or unemployed want. We work to have nice things, not to let someone els have nice things. Socialism, eventually everyone just does nothing and expects something.🤣🤣🤣. Thanks but no thanks.
Ja, bur Arcelor Mittal will carry on producing flat steel at its Vanderbijlpark and Saldanha facilities. Flat steel is used for automobile manufacture. The Vereeniging and Newcastle works that produce long steel for railway lines are being shut down. Clients buying flat steel are mostly in the private sector, who actually pay. Long steel is used by Transnet, if it can be bothered to build railway lines, and even if they do order long steel, they will take a long time paying, if ever, and there will be the usual corruption involved.
The quality of steel from China is terrible. Poor quality breaking cutting tools.
This is all about control. The more people unemployed, the more control they have. They play the guitar, and everyone else dances to their tune.
Deindustrialisation,
have many more on grants and guess how much you can control!
All the African governments keep it's citizens unemployed
Those who pay the piper, calls the tune.
No more physical labor technology is taking over 60% of work force is going straight to social grants
I think their under the impression that ALL other businesses was built by whites so destroying them, getting them to leave etc. Is their plan then they will try to rebuild on their own minus ANY resources. This is such a BIG car accident of a view on business and funny enough it makes sense like especially now this is sabotage on purpose.
You cannot correct a country that is broken with infrastructure spending .... because you don't have money to do it! Only the foreign investors have money! List the SOEs on the JSE ASAP!
To maintain + upgrade a facility like eskom, make profit plus supply affordable electricity to uplift millions of poor ppl will be a huge challenge at least well into the medium term - more so if u have to also feed greedy fingers + their parties.
@@Ariel2580t The US has 350 electricity businesses and Google Between 2013 and 2023, the average residential electricity price in the U.S. increased by less than 1% ...
the only way SA will survive and thrive is to get rid of the government and all their ridiculous policies.
I hear what you say, who will take their place, MK+Eff, forget about the DA, they will never rule this country again, so help me with a new gov that will do things the right way, in your opinion?
Also remember that the DA is now part of the current gov.
Attachment is the root if all suffering🙏
@@vicmarx-sl5xz DA has never ruled this country. Never say never
@charmainecarstens1
This is Africa, your chances as Mohammed Ali said, slim to none, but if that idea makes you happy, no problem with me, i have learned many years ago never to trust or depend on any gov.
Wasn't this same problem AMSA, a problem last year also. So nothing was done from last year to prevent this.
Just leave the country. That is my feeling. I am trying to encourage my son to go elsewhere. Any type of patriotism died years ago.
That's why my sons left/leaving
I am also trying to get my 2 sons to leave africa not only south africa. 😅
We never had patriotism, only practicism.... patriotism is for fools. We always realized we had to get along ... to go along ...to progress...
Plenty future here, but as a creator. We’ve said it many times before, Africa is not a place where you can coast like Australia or England.
@@MorningShot coasting days in Aus and England are rapidly coming to an end.
Thank you, Byron. I'm not getting notifications anymore.
Almost all the parts used to assemble cars here are imported from the OEM. You cannot have locally produced pumps, engine blocks etc made locally and not conform to a global standard. The same is true of trucks and mining equipment.
Interesting, Byron. Just highlights how truly dumb our stupid government is
Thanks again and again
Byron keep well and safe 🙏🙏🙏🎉🎉
They pulled this country through their areses.
Don't forget the $110 million dollar fine in 2016 on said steel company for anti competitive behaviour, I'm sure that cemented good relations with government.
"The DA says they won't support this" - that is becoming a bit of a joke now isn't it.
What...? They going to bust up the GNU..... AGAIN 😆😆😆
It is almost like they want it to happen, but that must be a conspiracy surely...
CR wants create another trough to "eat" from
Cannot fix anything!!@
Just shows again that he has never built anything - just a union grifter.
Wakanda forever!
Thou wakanda was clearly way more advanced and stable (highly prosperous) and using their resources to make things not export raw materials unlike this country
Thanks
The Finance Minister is asleep.
So what, he's going to make up more ridiculous taxes to "fund our infrastructure repair"? What a joke.
With the motor industry pulling out of this country - we will all go back to horse and carriage/cart - at least save on petrol costs, service costs , tyres, high car installments, car insurance, tracker etc.
Such a lotta retards!!!🙄🙄
You are funny dude
Unfortunately a horse these days is more expensive to own than a car.
You will own nothing and you will be happy 🤦🏻♂️
@lukelynch5158 can you be happy and poor without securing your survival much less of your progeny?
Viva anc corrupt cadres and looters viva.anc renewal in a nutshell viva.
Could probably cost 1\3 if there are no greased palms....
So we are screwed .
Keep fighting. Don’t give up!
True story here. My father took his pension and all his assets with a business partner, they purchased a business that smelts aluminum into molds. When they took over the business, they improved working conditions, automated a few processes given staff more time to do real productive things, etc. When BEEE kicked in real hard, (Insert broken railway company name here) stopped purchasing aluminum parts from the business. A few months later, a guy rocks up to my fathers business, shows them a contract he landed with (Insert broken railway company name here) to smelt/manufacture the parts he was already doing. Essentially the guy wanted to be a middle man and pay 2% + cost.
Business closed down, staff lost work and we don't know if the pension will last.
And then they wonder why they are loosing jobs
We can discuss like we want to the main culprit are the damn goverment
Morning to you Byron.
Great show
Besides being intellectual... You are a brave individual.🇿🇦💚❤️💚❤️
I ask you. What is wrong with South Africa. Answer! EVERYTHING!!!!!$$$
SAn Citizens are in big trouble companies are leaving the country because of ANC catastrophic decisions if we aren't careful this country is going to the direction of Zimbabwe in many ways nothing is going to improve aslong people are in lala land busy
Lovely to see the DA taking hold of the local railways. Problem being, them carriages will be set alight by the taxi industry in no time at all.
South African infrastructure has been declining even before 1994 but when Anc came into power, infrastructure development was not a priority instead culture of large population depending on state was introduced and culture of free bee's too.
What isn't broken?
This country is a true democracy. Take from the minority and give to the majority.
Keep your good work going!! NAME AND SHAME THE ANC, for ALL the destruction they have accomplished! Disgusting, incompetent mamparras!
This is not even newsworthy anymore, it is something so endemic to Africa ( with some rare exceptions) that the average South African who lived and worked in both the pre 1994 and post 1994 economic sphere just shrugs in a helpless gesture and then changes the subject to sport or weather.
Maybe they should not have sold ISCOR in the first place!
As an EME supplier to the Motor industry we have seen things get progressively worse. One major concern is BBBEE requirements for vendors/suppliers, the other being their own 'EE' policies, where you can see the numbers really don't add up to 'Equity'.
Some people in government suffer from the dunning Kruger effect
I have the same question. Why do we hear "ANC" all the time, and not "GNU"?
ANC still hold the important ministries. Trade and industry, finance etc.
ANC is in control. Other parties don't have voice. These parties are there to keep ANC away from the MK and EFF
If Elon Musk is successful in the USA with the DOGE then maybe he should come here for a bit a do the same thing that will sort a lot out especially the wasteful spending
Just need to follow Argentina example.
Pretty sure Elon CBA with anc. He took his investment elsewhere. Let's see what price cupcake demands to "allow" starlink 🙄
Lekka Aye en See - ministers come to the office, if they pitch, drink tea read a newspaper, have a nap, have lunch, go home...lekker productive day neh!?
I do piping, mittals pipe is a staple, we should not be importing it.
Traceability is the difference between scrap pipe and stock.
If i buy in china now, then i must fly there to look at each piece and its certificate. Cos trusting them is no option, i saw the coal mills gov ordered from china. We had v to gouge and reweld.
I saw the frame of that entire workshop at scaw that is basically as good as scrap after arrival and being incorrect materially.
Ive seen the good and bad of chinas pipe fittings. These are not issues we need
They should just nationalize ISKOR again if the private sector doesn't want it - it is too important to let it fail.
Understand one thing, that plant takes all steel, exports, and we buy it back into the country.. we tried buying direct.. Tata wouldn't let us
Run the country as a business. Safe your supply chain.grow your local market.we are going down .down. Y. Restructure. The infrastructure
No longer on the cliffside but hanging in the abyss!! The money pot was not bottomless surprise surprise!!!
.. do you see anybody investing into EV plants in SA ? They are out since long ..
One of these days it will only be the ministers working trains are gone crime is rising police force is dying education is a mess
They trust certain folks with industry , farming and capital .
And sadly the Majority are not in that category.
To avoid losing a vast portion of their local business to extortion policies and the power fluctuations, water issues, toad conditions,potentially an extra 4k in taxes for all workers monthly for free healthcare, .
Theres too much kak to make rsa worth consideration or reflection on the matter.
You know those countries north of us where some immense construction of colonial industrial infrastructure has just been reclaimed by nature and lies in ruin buried in the bush, where tar roads vanish back into the veld, where gorgeous Victorian architecture is completely gutted
And de stripped if metals and now over populated and derelict, pock marked walls from armed conflicts, where state of the art fatns and equipment have been stripped for scrap and lie barren unable to feed their people so they all come live here instead,
Their colonizerrs packed up and opened shop elsewhere in the world and i can assure you that their investors followed them.
Thanks Byron 😊 🫂 🙏
Not long ago we had people saying "if u dont like whats happening here then leave". Well, the consequences of the brains leaving this country is telling
Quality of steel is VIP when making vehicles...🤔
As usual they f it up!
Why was Iscor ever sold to Mittal .
They have all the money now to buy BMW, Mercedes , Ferraris, Ford vehicles they bragged about it, but I reckon are enriching Japanese, European, American companies. 😮
Hopefully next year those and the families who suffer remember to not vote cANCer.
Did it make much difference? GNU is hiding in a closet somewhere while anc is not in the majority but still throwing their boeps around.
Some people love to suffer, its all theyve got (victim mentality)
Pie in the sky
Please do you self a favour and drive Strand Street in Cape Town. Taxi washing their vehicles, paper waste everywhere. Vendors and Taxis creating a Township in the midst of the so-called cleanest city. The City and DA are useless. Good Hope Centre and surroundings are a disgrace. Not mentioning Observerory nor Kgosana Drive. I promise you this is a drop in the sea of the decay in the Western Cape. The reason lawlessness is allowed. People urinating in Adderley Street and everywhere.
Ag skattie, die tor het nie van die blokkie geval - die tor het ge-emmigreer! Die gesamentlike IK van die GNU is in die minus - beperk tot Rande en sente en wel die rande en sente in hulle eie beursies.
Howz it boet!
The ANC Municipalities destroyed nearly al the small towns in die northern part of SA. Now the towns look like a war zone without clean water etc. To rebuild, are going to take years of hard work and lots of money is needed. You can be sure the rich countries will not donate money, they know will be stolen by the ANC. PLEASE, just stop begging the world to donate money. Lots of people are suffering because of mismanagement and corruption at municipalities. The ANC must be held responsible to rebuild all the towns and get the infrastructure in place as it was
Could the gasbag tell us just ONE THING they have done well/got right that was a positive for SA??!! ..... Alas NADA!!! So bad so sad 😢
The ANC had one single task after 94 .. give to everyone what was reserved for the few unjustly..but instead they undid. All the good things that were reserved for the few and gave nothing to the rest while stealing everything.. they looted this country in the name of the ANC .. our Parents were called Njaffers .. so that. Anc exiles and their foreiner friends can come live here in luxury.. As a Black south African im saying it .. we had clean water cheap food good jobs good houses good roads good schools under white people and look at what we have under black people .. the disappointment is that they proved the white man right that we are unble to govern and that is sad.
The ANC's behaviour is simply a mirror to the morality of the average South African.
The car manufacturers like VW are struggling in all markets globally this has nothing to do with the steel plant closing. While the steel plant closing will be a massive blow to the economy the fact that the economy has stagnated and has chased investors is a good thing because when the ANC is removed from power it will be very easy for companies to invest, build and show massive as an emerging market
South africa will never ever be the same again as long as the ANC are running the country
South Africa is in a race with many other countries around the world, including the UK, Germany, US and others, to see who will become a preindustrial economy first...! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Guess who will get to carry the blame.
JAN VAN RIEBEECK😂
Black leader ship what a good story to tell viva viva amandla !
Thanks,there are duties on imported steel to make Arcellor Metal competitive,we pay a premium for our cars,to support export subsidies.International long steel is 60% cheaper,maybe Arcelor Mittal should look at their efficiencies.
It's SOE Eskom's 1400% increase in prices since 1994... this is what happens if you don't privatize electricity production. SA has 1 electricity producing company, the rest of the worlds' countries have 100s... the US has 350.
How can they with the government interference and taxes?! Ask the freaking anc to improve their "efficiency"(as if they have any)
@@coffeeandrelaxing A.M.uses gas for the blast furnace and coke gas,electricity is only used in the Arc furnace,US electricity price is .18usd per kwh,SA is the same 0.18kwh,excluding Eskom discounts.
@antonjoubert6980 That will never happen,they are useless,we would pay a lot less for goods if it was a consumer must win principle(most efficient lowest cost),the ANC are a self fulfilling prophecy,we see it,they dont.
@ But the US business taxes is 21%.... In fact, for the entire EU, it has an average of 21% business taxes... South African business taxes is 27% and personal income taxes is the highest in Africa at 45% top marginal personal income taxes.... our fuel tax is also the highest in the world, import duties on cars highest.... etc.. etc...
Let's get this clear as I am reading comments about apartheid. Apartheid was passed into law under Dr Verwoed in the 60's and not under DF Malan in the 40's.
Give every politician a copy of Sim City. Maybe that will help them understand the basics 😂
You should post coments on how to leave this country the cheapest way because i dont think there is going to be much work opportunities left within a year from now .
We dont suggest you do leave, so why would we do that?