Why are South Africans Stealing Traffic Lights?
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Traffic Lights and Street Lights are being stolen all over South Africa, but why?....
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My father said a funny story about one of he’s coworkers that had been working in SA as a contractor building some power infrastructure to a large power station. So they were laying new cables ( large ones) and at the start at the build the workers worked hard and fast. But only after a week or so he notice how most of the workers seemed slow and tired, and this only got worse as the project progressed . So this continued to the work was done. Now when they tested the new cables they saw none of them worked. Confused the management told the workers to dig up the last connection to see what was going on, well there was no cables. So for months the workers did the job connecting cables and digging them a few meters down. At night they would come back dig it up, steal the copper and re do the work so it looked just as the left it at the end of the day. Basically all the workers had been working double shifts for months with barely any sleep lol.
Insane, my god.
With that in mind, seems China is 110% justified in not using the locals in their projects in Africa.
Kaffers
Thats not the reason why is China doing that...
@@cherryq91 If you hit two birds with the same rock..
I live in Australia. I recently sold truck batteries , copper scrap, brass and aluminum to a recycling yard that had been cluttering up my shed for years. The recycler needed my ID, phone number and bank account details, NO CASH PAYMENTS. This record of transactions stops all valuable metals theft as items can be traced back to the seller.
awful lot of government there
cos we aussie are not third world slum
@@phunk8607 With 500k + migrants on there way, it's not going to last long...
Same here in Arizona, USA
@@R0d_1984 Even Australia isn't safe from woke terror.
I work with a guy who was born in SA. He left 12 years ago. He was telling me how corrupt the government is and how bad the place is. He said you DON'T stop at red lights. And when walking around, youre always scanning around and watching your back. It's insane.
He is correct
@@serpentza It's very sad to hear. He did say the hunting is really awesome in SA too. We've actually become friends. He's a top quality guy. Very hard worker, very professional and good quality old school principled. I love you vids, can you do more about SA and it's issues? How it got where it did?
A failed state, only a few decades after the African native took over - and now become in correlation with other African countries same - this was predictable. Or look Haiti etc
That kind of sounds like some Democratic run cities here in the US.
@@UrbicideExactly
Seeing South Africa being one of the most well developed countries in Africa being slowly torn apart piece by piece is nothing short of heartbreaking.
They get what they voted for.
It's almost like we've seen this happen before
ANC style tribal marxism combined with extremely low IQ. This nation is finished.
Results of bad government management.
@@Sujadoh well to bad 😂😂😂
Never in my life, I see anyone would stole Traffic Light!!?
This quite shocking and surreal to be honest.
There are in the USA who steal traffic lights and park meters. The punishment is forced labour for 20 years at least.
As a Detroiter I can tell you that these people are the same all over the world and it will NEVER change. The safest thing you can do is to stay away from them.
Scott Adams ended his career to tell people this. It's an important message, you can tell by how hard some people will try to prevent it getting out.
Absolutely
Yes, Africans are gonna African no matter where they are, same with middle easterners or indians etc. I do believe that there is something genetic about all of this. Even long time 4th or 5th generation immigrants behave in ways congruent to their native country.
9 iq take. Marginalized groups of people will resort to animalistic tendencies due to their culture and upbringing. If a black kid gets raised by emotionally stable individuals, then obviously they'll come out to be a productive member of society. Same with white, hispanic, etc. Your take is just sugar-coated racism mixed with trumpy ignorance. If the electricity in America was shut off for 6-10 hours every day everybody, not just black people, would be losing their collective shit.
Africa always wins.
It's happening here in Brazil too where I live. There are places here where they're stealing the cables from streetlights and sometimes even manhole covers to sell and use the money to get drugs. As soon as the cables are replaced it only takes a couple days for it to happen again. It's sad.
When i lived in los angeles they did the same thing. the city finally had to use hardened plastic for the water main in front of each house. I went back to my small home town after 5 years in northern california and it looks like a zombie outbreak with the bums in the street. a town of 5k people, but its off the main freeway and due to the laws you can get rid of them.
Coming to a Brics country near you 😂
Africa going back to its roots, so happy to see them thriving culturally and spiritually.
😄 Thank you for your kindness, as Africans we appreciate your support ✅
I don't think they realize we didn't need them here.
So when will they start returning the aid packages sent by other countries to feed the people in South Africa? I guess I missed the part where South Africa historically was run on handouts.
@@ride.the.tiger. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiiiittttttt
@@ride.the.tiger.get a life
Years ago we got a report of an attempted theft of metal at a huge transformer site in the Boston Massachusetts area. Pretty gross view, some young black kid scaled the metal fence and held on with one hand to the fence while trying to grab parts of the transformer... he was literally baked onto the fence.
Hmm, I think the lights just flickered.
Lmao
Nice
Darwin award winner.
Why was it necessary to mention his race?
they'll soon be living in mud huts again
And they won't even notice the change
You are right Winston!!! I absolutely need to get out of South Africa!!! Don't know why I'm hanging around here!! Even living in the western cape doesn't make it better..
Problem for us near retirement age is where do you go? No one wants pensioners. Maybe go visit Mexico and then cross the border illegally in to the USA and then get all the benefits.
If youre white, come to America. We need more based white conservatives.
@@thomasjefferson6334 what a disgusting thing to say. America accepts all legally.. they want to game the system and lie to claim refugee status then that is them. You would be really surprised to see there are a lot of non white conservatives in the world... stop being a bigot.
that wont be an issue.
most studies show, marxists/communists are below replacement level. they will be a monority by 2030, wheras conservatives are above replacement level. 3-1. @@thomasjefferson6334
@@thomasjefferson6334 no you need to get out of America with that nasty mindset
I used to work with a South African chef, he was a great guy and he used to tell me some mad stuff about over there. This was a long time ago and I thought some of it even then was absolutely crazy but it seems far worse now. I hope your parents are doing ok over there Winston, I am sure with everything going on over there at the moment you must be concerned for them at times.
This reminds me of the African villages that were digging up all the new water pipes and plumbing so they could make them into bracelets instead of having clean running water.
If you really cared why didn’t you treat them right.
@@Mahmoodelsaid-i6x we gave them water...
Place is like a 3rd world country, what do we expect?
Happy to hear that South Africa adapts to its African neighbors on a steep downhill course.
Most of the thieves immigrated to the Union Republic of South A'a from those latter-mentioned countries over the last 2 and a half decades.
They should just flee to America. We need more based white conservatives.
lol
Haha
It’s funny how Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, went to sh*t decades ago, and hardly anyone in the SA government remembers how and why that happened.
If you gave the South African government a piece of desert and said ‘now build Dubai’,…. It would never happen ,…….because they would steal all the sand
Copper theft is on the rise here in the US as well. Recently, a local strip mall was shut down because thieves had stolen the cables to the breaker panels. I'm not sure how they managed to do it without arc flash or electrocution.
If they are that capable of messing with electricity they should go to trade school. They’d make a heck of a lot more money working for city or power company since they are already familiar with hot wires and whatnot.
@@seadragon1456its like the homeless people who have the technical skills to tap an extension cord into a live power line. These aren't idiots, they had some sort of job in the field before they turned to crime and drugs.
Copper theft is a frequent problem in Seattle too. Recently the internet for an entire neighborhood was lost when the cable was stolen from beneath a bridge.
Indeed. The main difference in this case is that those who do so are usually held responsible when/if found in the US. It seems to have almost become a normalized thing in South Africa by comparison though.
Thieves have excellent safety procedure😂
More SA videos please! Thanks for your work and entertainment 😊
I flew out of JoBurg and there were signs everywhere to wrap your luggage in plastic to prevent theft. Someone broke into my bag anyway and didn't find any valuables, and put some of my things, including prescription meds, into someone else's bag (who contacted me). I contacted the airport to file an incident report, which they opened and promptly closed after advising me "that's just the way it is here". The tolerance of theft is allowing this problem to continue in SA.
Wrapping you bags is not to prevent people stealing your stuff but to reduce the chance of someone slipping drugs into your bag.
You could become an innocent drug mule that is caught while the drug smuggler goes through during the commotion.
Wrapping you bags is not to prevent people stealing your stuff but to reduce the chance of someone slipping drugs into your bag.
You could become an innocent drug mule that is caught while the drug smuggler goes through during the commotion.
@@mikemoir9600 Thanks for the info. I never saw this in any other country so it was not clear to me
Appreciate your comments on SA. South Africa could have been a more than a dot on the world stage by now had history evolved differently. Instead it's a country devolving back to mud huts and hunting bush meat.
*mere
Could have been? It was!! It was a regional power and the only civilised functional country and democracy in Europe and one of the wealthiest countries on earth. Decades gone now
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti in Europe? maybe you mean in Africa.
@@Andreas-gh6is You do know that south africa was empty when the white people showed up there with only a couple small tribes who where being eaten by their northern neighbors and the blacks there now , moved there , to live with the whites ?
@@Andreas-gh6is You lie a lot here. "'White genocide' is actually a myth"? No need to be allergic to the truth.
I love this dudes channel(s). He always finds the most interesting and bizar things nobody else talks about.
I also like how it's objective too, and what he says is true
Such good journalism as always, comes from this channel.
It's because he's a good guy who won't tolerate lies
I lived in Sandton (suburb of Johannesburg) in 2010. The cluster (4 or 5 houses inside a defensive perimeter to share the cost of security) I lived in was a fortress. High walls topped with electrified wires. The bedroom was built like a jail cell which you locked yourself into at night and then armed the alarm system. If the alarm was triggered, within minutes heavily armed security arrived to find out why. My neighbors told me none of that was necessary until the ANC came in to power. That country is being looted from the top as well as from the bottom.
This is the truth
@@serpentza
I’ve lived all over the world. South Africa was the country where I saw the most high end European Sports cars. Ferraris, Lamborghinis as daily drivers. My work mates said they were owned by “Tenderpreneurs”. The explanation of that word had me laughing to tears.
The tenderpreneurs are still going strong here!!!😵Western Cape is a lot better than the rest of the provinces!! The road are maintained and maintenance to infrastructure gets done. In the north there are more potholes than road!
Pay CASH EVERYWHERE you go, NO kard or phone payment
Sandton felt relatively safe when I stayed there in 1994, the apartment had a security guard in a hut but it wasn't fortified. Such a shame it's deteriorated so much.
Truly shocking crime statistics.
It's much higher the government downplayed it because of all the rampant greed corruption and idiot commies in charge who are not even qualified. because they are dangerously close to having a angry population here people are getting fed up however they been going to their old tricks to try and keep them complacent for now. between the loadshedding crimes corruption lack of services as a example 70 percent of our entire aircraft in the airforce are broken and haven't been fix no money for 5yr
not at all suprising crime statistics. And they said apartheid was bad - at least SA was a functioning country back then.
@@CyrilSneer123 SA was only a functional country for the 5% white minority, life for non-white South Africans was just as bad back then, you just didn't hear about it because the apartheid regime tightly controlled what could be reported.
@@CyrilSneer123SA was far from a functioning country back then: the Apartheid just managed to hold up the facade better than the ANC does.
I'm wheelchair-bound person. I've been 5 times attacked in London. Even once the Police has registered it...
So you could move.
I'm also in a weelchair and moved from former Germany to Poland.
Don't look for excuses, do it.
Over here inside the industry, they offered the old unused buildings as temporary homes for refugees but they started ripping off the copper from the walls and stolen like everything there + around. Makes me literally sad to see.
Welcome to idiocracy
Except in idiocracy they were smart enough to use the wire to prevent the buildings from falling over.
@@EatMyShortsAU 🤣
It's only a matter of time until South Africans will envy the people of DR Congo.
My dream of becoming a South African traffic light is broken.
-Traffic- -light- robot
There are many new positions to be a brand new traffic light 💡 robot that are always popping up -don't ask me why😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅
Isn’t this something that happens every day in China? Why do you think of South Africa differently?
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It's very simple. If you tolerate theft, which includes being soft on punishing it, you'll get theft.
I don't know why this is still a mystery to most people on this planet.
The real problem is the lack of morals.
the problem may be genetic
The price of copper has gone up a lot, even in the United States we have problems with people stealing anything they can get copper out of.
Scott Adams Was 100 % Correct
People aren't equals. Some people should be seperated from other people.
Hmmm, if only there was a place that tried that. I wonder if they had a word for it... something to denote keeping people "apart". "Aparteousness"? Naw, that doesnt roll off the tongue very well. I'm sure we can think of something if we put our minds to it.
@@hohenzollern6025 Apartheid should stay
@@hohenzollern6025But is he wrong?
@@ricarleite
Little late to debate right/wrong init? It's gone, it's over. That ship has sailed.
Ya'll should have thought about that before turning a first world nation into a 3rd world hellhole because of feefees. Perhaps some day in the near future, another chance to make that decision will present itself in a country near you...
Hey what's that happening in Ireland right meow?
@@ricarleite Yes, if he really thinks being granted state privileges is will even solve shit. Utterly laughable how some still support this brain rot ideology.
They are Zimbabweans not SA.we had traffic lights for years,non of us stole them.zim remove road signs to build shacks. Traffic lights they crush them then sell them .
And this is why I have a hard time believing people who say they are anarchists. Do they actually understand what they are asking for? I don't think so. This is kind of thing is essentially what you get when you have anarchy.
>anarchy
>ANC in power
The naive anarchists assume that most people will behave in a moral manner, which is sadly not what the reality of the world reveals. The other anarchists are latent criminals who want restrictions on their behavior removed.
Stealing anything is normal in S Africa, they wanted the country back but haven’t the sense of responsibility nor sense to run it.
What are you implying,
The obvious.
@@ssam143 SO . someone came destroyed there lifestyle, impose a different life style and "standards" and treated people worse than their animals and you wanted them to keep hold of their freedom. Let them be.
@@aheuditcome now. We all know the level of theft and corruptions drom our leaders in anc goverment strait down to the bottom to people on the street.
This country is doomed. You know it and i know it. Stop deffending it.
Same thing in America. I don't see anybody stopping the thieves in leadership emptying out the national treasury and laundering that money. You have a presidential thief everybody is scared to mess with. A member of the biggest group of thieves in the world (glass house colonizer), trying to shade petty thieves. Go figure 🤷🤷. Neither is right. But your folks steal big and take lives while doing it. If your uppity thieving European relatives would leave the continent for about 5 years, maybe they could run it. He's talking about Africa, but he should go cover the theft in the UK.
"this is a man, dragging a traffic light that he's just stolen..."
I've heard many word combinations in my life, but never these. pure madness
He plans to install it next to the door to his room, so that his mom will not disturb him when he's busy.
It's happening because while your parents put food on the table. Their parents had to steal to Survive. That's the darkest side of the Evil of Apartheid, now you know why they steal. I used too deliver groceries for the fortunate ones and to steal some sugar and beans for older granny's who went to bed without a meal. I know what I'm talking about because I lived Apartheid. It's so sad but true.
Still blaming previous government? Pathetic.
"There is a thriving _black_ market for copper cables in South Africa."
Winston calling a spade a shovel.
Classic one word comment. In the USA these folks comprise about18% of the population and commit around 80% of the crimes.
Black market he he
Where is the government the real issue is we are not save at all in this country. Media have been calling on government to close down scrapyards, the message fell on deaf ears. But the law abiding people are being blamed for not telling the law enforcement. Our country South Africa is finish, you left your food print on a gravel tomorrow it is stolen.
This is what the undoing of civilization looks like.
In South Africa tsotsi's are in Parliament and called Honourable Members
Thank you ANC for turning S.A. into one big squatter camp
In the late eighties a new family moved in next door. I became close friends with the two boys and their sister. The parents had left SA and emigrated to Australia due to the increase in racial violence and wanted to protect their kids. They were against apartheid (which was still a legal thing in SA then).
The parents had some pretty bad horror stories and saw the writing on the wall that the country they loved was heading for a social disaster.
We thought then that it was heading for a race war, and the world was relieved when that was averted. But averting the war did not save the country.
Well isnt that just ironic. They were against the thing protecting them from what they eventually had to flee from.
The road to hell is paved in good intentions indeed.
@@hohenzollern6025 Exactly, everything that has happened in South Africa since 1994 proves that apartheid was necessary for the benefit of all races.
@@dreamdiction 2000 years of history shows why it was implemented
@@dreamdiction Why was apartheid overthrown if it was necessary?
This is why countries like South Africa will always remain
at the BACK of the bus.
The complete inability to appreciate the resourses that they have is astounding, yet not surprising.
Boohoo muh apartheid
@@Andreas-gh6is It's not that there's people who don't appreciate it, the issue is there's enough that don't, and seemingly more than enough people who are in positions of power _here and now_ that really don't appreciate it and can't look past their own pockets.
One assumes that generations of telling people that they have no ownership of common resources leads those people to behaving as outsiders in their own country.
@@Octaviu5 going to say yes to you. Your comment will be deleted soon. Just wanted to say. THAT is exactly the problem.
@@Octaviu5 Facts, just replace tsotsi with that and you have the truth.
I'm a SA citizen and your explanation of our problems ARE SPOT-ON. SA is in need of a stronger and honest political party. 🤬😬
Totally nuts. My uncle retired and moved to Mexico and a similar kind of thing was happening down there.
Cartels sabotaging the infrastructure is a daily occurrence in northern Mexico especially. Whoever owns the infrastructure owns the people, there’s a reason why so many power companies run on cartel money. 🤷🏻♂️
Why?? I really can't say it (without gettin banned). Also really brave of you to say the T-word with the hard S on youtube.
We just had a family move in next door that was able to get their immigration paperwork approve after 12 years awaiting acceptance for residence status and they've been afraid they might not
live long enough for of them to all escape the failed state that South Africa is rapidly becoming currently. They said that South Africa should be a beacon of light and hope for Sub-Sharana Africa but it's becoming a criminal hole of fear and grief for the vast majority of it's people and cultures.
But South Africa had long been in the top crime rates in the world for a long time now. It's not like SA was a very peaceful country 12 years ago and is suddenly plunging into anarchy.
In coastal Australia I have South Africans across the fence and next to me.
In British Columbia a metal thief was fried like a strip of bacon for trying to steal copper at a power station.
The reason why the traffic lights are called robots in SA comes from the fact that when they replaced traffic controllers, people felt like a human job was replaced by a robot. At least that's the explanation I've been told by a friend from JoBurg.
A robotic traffic controller. Robot for short.
I am working for Sasol in Europe... Every talk about ZA is like a mad max story but more fucked up.
What is "ZA"?
@@itzakehrenberg3449 zud afrika
@@itzakehrenberg3449 I assume that's also why he is called serpentZA
Need we say it was Nelson Mandela who used the finances for buying power stations and bought submarines which provided kickbacks for the politicians.
It boggles my mind to attempt to understand how crazy it must be to live in South Africa and be witness or even a victim to some of the horrific things that go on there 😮
We live in hell every day in South Africa
@@terminator8334Africa*
This is fake lies, get on any plane going to South Africa? And it’s filled with white people funny how that is 😂😂😂 and all this BS happened when black Africans first took over power, you had immigrants traveling to South Africa by the thousands and it was crazy, but now South Africa looks better, and is much safer than the USA, they have a power problem, but nothing else and I know people that’s moving there every day and they love it, it’s like paradise, with much less crime and California weather
I'm from SA, not white. I don't go anywhere, except to work and to the store. I'm in the house and stay there by latest 7pm. Freedom? There's no freedom. Only ignorant people who doesn't know it's their turn to meet the undesirable next.
No it's not hard now, that shit is being imported
Crime is social justice in action. SA today, USA tomorrow.
social justice?,you mean grabbing from those that work to the laze about that want ,got it
This was a huge problem in the metro where I live. Copper thieves were stripping them from the base along freeways so they could hide in the dark especially on freeways with a lot of low growing bushes and vegetation on the side of the road so they could hide. Finally, the government passed legislation against metal collectors from receiving obviously new rolls or freshly cut large amounts of copper cables. If caught with them the fine was hefty, so that put an end to the incentive for people to steal it.
The South African government should spend more time complaining about Israel and less time fixing the electricity.
We’re starting to see criminals, get more and more confident, and the feeling of enabling with no repercussions. Today, the walk in the stores past the security on video with 10 employees watching and walk out with a cart full of items, and then return the next day. At some point these people will start going into homes.
Why do they do anything they do, in every country they go to? Because they can’t help it, it’s what they do. They always take the easy route, in every opportunity. Truly dangerous and different peoples.
They appear to be burnt by sin. The darker the burn, the more danger they may pose.
I don’t care if the entire African continent sinks into the ocean. 😊
Apparently, stealing everything that wasn't nailed down just wasn't enough. Now they're stealing things that *are* nailed down.
Meanwhile, Switzerland has all it's traffic lights
Don't speak too soon! I've seen the crime stats heavily filled by perps of the "diversity" side of the aisle. Switzerland is sadly being targeted.
@@likwidshoe Ah yes diversity. The language of invasion.
There was this problem in France more than 10 years ago. Stilling of copper cables and other metals...
5:15 You got that absolutely spot on. Criminals and Tsotsis.
SA is the future of the western world.
South Africa has devolved in the past 30 years to a developing country status. European Countries are more well-of and more equal than ever (meaning we're richer and more equal for everyone). I don't see how at least the EU would devolve to that lol Also the US with it's problems is educated and well-off - for a certain population - the US can solve it's problems in a few years if it want's to.
The western world is now more robust, educated and well-off than ever in the history of the civilization.
The EU, the US rule the world. South Africa is ...South Africa.
lol how?
@@toms5996 it would devolve into that by migration of many millions from the most impoverished and crime ridden countries as it is happening right now. look at how france and sweden are doing and extrapolate that into the future.
@@toms5996dude how do you not understand what illegal immigration and mass migration does
@@naswingerexactly this.
"They're not afraid of the police." Yes, I can see how that's a problem. It's also something that could easily be fixed. Tends to be a small portion of the population causing the problems. If the government cares, they can do something about it.
Just like in the US, they cut catalytic converters from the cars for platinum Toyota/Honda cars
I am watching this because this will come soon to Europe.Thank you for electric cars! No cables for street lights, but we will have many electric cars.
I have never considered the potential for stealing EV's components. It's gonna be amazing, lol.
What a crazy place. There have been many attempts to get South africa into the modern age. But the local people there are just not ready for that. The level of criminality and the fact they do not see that by stealing from the government again and again will make the area worse off. It's high time everyone worth anything left rhat place, its sad, but maybe in another 50 years, africa will be ready to move into the 21st century. I truly feel sorry for the good people there who have no chance at living their best life.
Stealing copper does not only happen in Africa. that happens everywhere. if it is not the traffic lights, then it is on the railways or in construction works.
People in some states steal the catalytic converters off cars for the precious metals in them.
On more serious note, I feel sorry for the hard-working, honest people and innocent kids living in South Africa
hey dude...there aren't any...
All ten of them. Lol.
hard working , honest, innocent, and african all in the same sentence? something seems off about that to me
THIS IS REALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA BUT FOREIGN COUNTRIES THINK SOUTH AFRICA IS A BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
It's sad that a once great country has been ruined by its current leaders..
When was it great? What years exactly?
@@dantrav1927it was great during the time White people governed the country
@@boris7797 true and im tired of this modern narrative, it might've been draconian but stable and thriving.....compared to what it is now. same with their Rhodesian Neighbor
Sad, that it is so extreme, but even here in the UK I have been affected by Criminals stealing train line signal cables and when I am in the Philippines with my wife the internet cables were stolen, thankfully now not needed due to Cell Phone Networks and protected cables to that!
At one time, that society was able to have 1st world things. It must be climate change !
Only the 5% white minority of SA got to have 1st world things during apartheid, the conditions for the rest of SA were just as bad as they are now.
Exactly!😊
Only a small portion was able to have 1st world things, though. People with the ‘wrong’ skin colour were out of luck. 🤷🏻♂️
@@nyb2.027 Now nobody has them. The country has gone BACKWARDS.
@@nerdyali4154 No doubt
From South Africa: During a Scheduled Power Cut at 02:00 am Thieves stole just over a metre of Copper Cable from the connector outside our home, 4 days later repeated this.
I bought an Alarmed padlock to attach to the loops of Cable and rubber Snakes also placed inside the enclosure which I fastened down with screws (No Inspection is necessary).
Copper Cable has also been replaced with Aluminium Cable. This makes theft unprofitable.
And when this lot pours into Europe by the hundreds of 1000s, we're being told we're being culturally enriched. Insane.
1:36 they're called robots because, before they existed traffic used to be directed by a (usually black) guy with very visible white gloves standing in the middle of the intersection. I forget what their official title was. But, essentially, the new traffic lights were the "robot" equivalent of those guys....
This and other stories from SA are horrific! Even the story sepenza told or his father told how their home was invaded etc is shocking and there’s people normal hard working people stuck there having to deal with that sh*t everyday or week hoping they don’t get robbed or killed 77 murders a day! Wow
You know, I live in Europe and copper wires are stolen from rail ways as well... So that is not happenning only in SA, it happens whenever there are socio-economic issues in any country!
Baaie dankie vir die waarheid.
Greetings from a Dutch subsciber.
Stay awesome mr serp.
Inderdaad, bizar daar beneden in Afrika. Kan het me niet voorstellen, klinkt als een post apocalyptic sci fi verhaal daaro.
Tsja... en het zal er niet beter op worden denk ik.
Why? Look at the demographic lol
One day, you can also come to indonesia, there are some interesting phenomenas:
1. Almost one million mosques use loudspeakers aimed outwards. At least 5 times a day there will be loud noises from all the mosques which can disturb sick people and the elderly. If you ask to lower the voice, you can be attacked.
2. During Ramadan month, don’t take a risk eating in the front of fasting muslims. All restaurants should cover the windows.
3. Female students of state schools especially in small cities must wear hijab.
4. Public secret to bribe police officers/ staffs to get driver license.
5. Police officers hide at somewhere to trap car/ motorcycle drivers who violate the road signs. Then ask money.
6. beggars mafias who exploit children
7. illegal parking network controlled by several big mafias.
8. Thugs who forcefully demand money from truck drivers along roads throughout Indonesia
9. Etc
blacks are just the "best". So great an building a nation... so great...
They bring so much diversity 😂
@@jacquelinelubrani3905 yup. They sure do. They sure do... Sigh.
Some men will create a city out of a pile of bricks....
Others will take a city and turn it into a pile of bricks
Very true
That is exactly where South Africa is heading. Why not just ban scrap copper sale.?
@@nelsonchinasamy9857 why because that is not the real problem. You will be harming the wrong folks and not doing a thing about the crime.. you think these guys are going to just up and stop ? you think they dont have connections in the industry by now that gives little about retail scrap sales?
Well said, but very sad.
Great words Thomas.
Thats basically like reverse evolving a country, throwing it back into the stone age. Well done, everyone involved.
Yes, pretty soon all the lights will be off and in a few hundred years it will look like a thousand years ago
the natives are just returning to their natural state before whites gave them toilets
@@randolfo1265 100% correct. In the coming decades, when the oil runs out, then every country will regress; some more than others.
Leninists is the ANC
Stealing copper wire has been going in Detroit Chicago, Philadelphia for along time.Copper water pipes also.
The average person who has not lived in South Africa will never understand the depraved criminal culture that filters through every aspect of daily life, corruption, nepotism and inept leadership are a fact of life.
it's all about money, everything that ever happened anywhere is about money, when u r not feed u have to gain your own meal.
Sorry, but while in different levels all third world countries have the same problem. The problem is the culture in those countries rewards dishonesty and criminal behaviour.
Is America or most other 1st world western nations any different?
I don’t live there but have friends who have and it sounds like a horror story
Yep,, I remember them stealing the radio from my car, they caused so much damage that the radio must have been useless. I left Observatory in 95, never to return. I came to a lower standard of living in the UK, but hey, I get to sleep without 8ft locking gates and bars on the windows.
Metal theft in the US dropped like a rock when police began having sting operations against scrap dealers.
Centralization creates weaknesses 😂
My grandfather had some large scraps of industrial, insulated cable. He wanted to scrap them, but was under the impression they wouldn't take them with the insulation on.
He made me spend a whole day with him stripping them all... Imagine his shock, when he took them in and found out that the law had changed, and to fight cable theft, wire/cable over a certain gauge could no longer be accepted if it DIDN'T have the insulation on it lol.
@@benchoflemons398So does anarchy.
I had to take some stuff in one day and it literally took me 3X mote time to have my background check, photo taken, police search and a form exhaling exactly what I was dropping off and where it came from. Including an affidavit All that for $37.
This right here will solve so many of these issues, power cable theft being one felt by the masses on the regular
It is impressive how they were able to turn the most resource rich country in the WORLD into this
thats what happens when black man is in charge
emphasis on "they".
Same with Venezuela.
By contrast, Japan is resource-poor.
@@Andreas-gh6is Now tell me how the GDP looks like once you adjust it for inflation?
Ironically, the scrap copper will be used to make new cables which will be stolen once in place.
The problem is, the country is being run by a bunch of tsotsis.
Always has been, the only thing that changed was the skin color of the tsotsis
Why dont we talk about their handlers like the (chosen) in all the world governments. They are the real evil.They are working on the millennium.Problem is africans are like putty in their hands with donations.
you spelt *kuffarrrrrr wrong.
@@mrvwbug4423 not really because the previous leadership actually got SA to the point where they actually have copper to install for traffic lights etc.
@@--Traveler--Leathal weapon 2 taught me that word
Strange how South African politicians lecture the entire world on how issues should be handled.
A little bit better than Biden
@@shaf3006 - "A little bit better than Biden"
Such nonsensical criticism only makes yourself look bad.
What lecturing? What issues? What's your source?
Do they? I've heard them make comments about dealing with apartheid-like situations abroad - is that what you're referring to?
Or are you saying that their inability to rule effectively after the dismantling of the apartheid state means that the country would be better off being subjugated under white rule again? Which isn't just a way to shut you down - depending on which polls you choose to believe, you could argue that a majority of the population think life was better back then (not that it necessarily means they'd prefer/want to go back to that form of governance) - I just think you should be honest instead of cryptic if that's your argument.
@@callum9999 " the country would be better off being subjugated under white rule again? " subjucation under black rules does seems to work just as well than on the rest of the continent, nothing surprising there.
South Africa is operating an ethnic clensing, white used to be 17% of the population in 1986, they are 7.7% in 2022.
My father's cousin lived in S.A for many years. He was convinced that people's sentimentality to Mandela's ANC was a major problem and things could only get worse. My mother's Godson was shot through the eye and killed in front of his wife and two young daughters when intruders broke into his home in order to steal some mobile phones. South Africa is appalling.
Wow! 😢
No one is informed because IT'S NOT PC.
South Africa is fine.
It's the beasts that it's been left to that are the problem m
@@carwashadamcooper1538 South Africa is not fine. It's a shithole and it's getting worse every day. That is the reality.
@carwashadamcooper1538 "nazis are fine, it's Hitler and the ss leadership who are the problem". That's how ridiculous your statement sounds mate
“This man hits a street light with a rock.”
Good God!
They’ve begun using primitive tools!
Same country who had nukes 30 years ago...
@@PrinceAlhorian Was a white country back then, completely different now.
Almost feels like an unstoppable zombie apocalypse
@@Ultima64 I live here... And I can promise you, comparing them to zombies is an affront to the undead!
@@Cleisthenes607 used to be a black man civilization before and then the white men conquered them. The scars have not left they merely learned from their former colonial masters.
It always amazes me how some people destroy their own communities and live in their own filth with no apparent desire to better themselves.
A case where the population reflects their govenrment. ANC basically loots the entire country for their own personal gain, so the rest of SA follows suit.
How do you better yourself on $3 a day ? 😂😂
the britons managed it after the romans left.@@Official_Baba_yaga
@@Official_Baba_yaga You try to make more than $3 a day.
Yes, pretty soon all the lights will be off and in a few hundred years it will look like a thousand years ago
My mum is south african and this is the exact reason she left. People would keep breaking into her house and stealing her stuff and from stories she's told me, she was one of the lucky families that were only robbed and nothing more.
Subspecies; it is what it is.
@@QuantumEffectResidue As opposed to what? A pig sub-species with white privilege?
Are there ANY black nations that are prosperous?@@QuantumEffectResidue
My brother lives there and has rape gates all through the house . Its like a prison compound.
@@alaindelon5398locking doors in thresholds placed throughout the house, usually in hallways. It’s to prevent someone from being able to reach you within your own home.
I used to work at a scrapyard in Germany, people would try to sell cables stolen from train track construction sites all the time. Usually we got a warning from local police when someone stole metal in the area before the guys showed up trying to sell their loot.
What did the usual looters look like?
and their skin in dark color too ?
This not only happens in South Africa, the same thing also happens in China. China is a backward, corrupt and poor country with a population of 1.4 billion.
@@hoangnguyenminh1901white people ,
@@thomasjefferson6334
They were all blonde hair blue eyed painters from Austria