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Another hot-as-hell day loading in Jhb and another day without water. Weirdly, the lower areas in my suburb has water. It's like @JHBWater can't figure out to cut EVERYONE till the system recovers. Wednesday should show how serious we are about this ongoing issue.

Johannesburg's city government emptied its own water company's bank account the night before a new rule would have locked that money in for water. About $200 million, down to zero. Four months later, people in the city that's home to Africa's biggest stock exchange are lining up at trucks for 13 gallons of water a day. Johannesburg buys its water from a big regional supplier called Rand Water, and nearly half of what it buys disappears before anybody gets a bill for it. About a quarter of all of it just leaks out of busted pipes into the dirt. Over the past year the city logged more than 50,000 leaks. That works out to about 140 a day, every single day. Fixing the whole network would cost something like $1.6 billion. At the pace they're going now, one South African think tank figures it would take about 200 years to replace all the old pipes. The city pulls in roughly $700 million a year selling water, and less than $80 million of that goes back into building and fixing the system. One watchdog group says the city has swept more than $350 million out of the water company this term alone. After the June raid, the water company couldn't pay about $100 million in bills and shut down most of its projects, leak repairs included. So even more water leaked. Now follow the money on the other side. Every time a pipe stays broken, somebody gets paid to drive water into that neighborhood on a truck. Johannesburg has spent almost $40 million on water trucks in five years, and it still won't tell anyone who got the money. A court threw out one $16 million truck contract last December over irregularities. An investigator with South Africa's Human Rights Commission said they found evidence that water infrastructure was sometimes sabotaged on purpose to drum up truck business, and the country's own water minister has called the people behind it a mafia. What gets me is that the family waiting at the truck for their 13 gallons still counts as having water service in the official numbers, because their house has a tap.

Hey @elonmusk, in SA we have been making cars fly since 2023

At least one positive thing came from your disgusting doxxing of Twatterbaas: a clip that distills the essence of your propaganda outlet, that will live in infamy.

Public schools are mainly mixed or mostly black. There are still many public schools with an overwhelming number of white students. What relevance is that?

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terfs be like: "I HATE GENDER STEREOTYPES! FUCK THE PATRIARCHY!" and then proceed to boil down the concept of a woman to her vagina and ability to menstruate

There is no such thing as a “university of the people who speak isiZulu” in the first place. Our universities are South African institutions, open to all South Africans regardless of language, ethnicity or province. What she is expressing is a dangerous desire to Balkanise South Africa along ethnic and linguistic lines - to turn our diversity into separate political and territorial enclaves. Colonialism and apartheid tried precisely this through segregation, Bantustans and the deliberate manipulation of ethnic identities to divide and rule. They failed to permanently fracture South Africa, and those attempting to revive the same poisonous politics of ethnic division will fail again. We must defend a united, non-racial and democratic South Africa in which isiZulu, isiXhosa, Sesotho, Tshivenda, Afrikaans and every other language belong equally to all of us. No ethnic group owns a province, a university or any part of this country. South Africa belongs to all who live in it. We will not allow it to be Balkanised.

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This infuriates me to no end. The cruelty. The evil. If this isn’t slavery, I don’t know what is.

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“There definitely is a demonisation of rape”, says abysmal wankpipe as idiot handmaiden nods along like he’s said the most profound thing she’s ever heard.