South Africa faces ‘civil war’ conditions due to possibility of power grid collapse

CB40 said:
C'mon guys and gals,it's not all doom and gloom,As they say "Africa is not for sissies"
I remember all the naysayers in 1994 with the elections and so many people stocking up on all kinds of ****.It was actually ridiculous.
At the time I was on a business trip in Harare and voted there.
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How? It took a court case several years later to allow SA citizens in countries other than SA to be allowed to vote.
 
Lupus said:
Demand was lower, also it came close in the 70s and 80s,EAF was sitting at 70% and under but when you're not exactly sending to a large population you can get away with the buffer. They even set up committees to sort it out in the mid 80s
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Yet SA was supplying a lot of Africa at the time.
 
vigras rojara said:
Lol, troltrot.

The country was bankrupt. We would have been Somalia years ago. Why do you think they threw in the towel?
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I often hear this. Yet the Rand was around R3-50 to the US Dollar. What is it now and SA isn't bankrupt now I suppose?
 
Cosmik Debris said:
How? It took a court case several years later to allow SA citizens in countries other than SA to be allowed to vote.
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I took my mother in law to vote in London in 1994. Year my son was born and she was visiting.
 
CB40 said:
C'mon guys and gals,it's not all doom and gloom,As they say "Africa is not for sissies"
I remember all the naysayers in 1994 with the elections and so many people stocking up on all kinds of ****.It was actually ridiculous.
At the time I was on a business trip in Harare and voted there.
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I think the difference back then was that the negativity was in people's heads. There was an expectation of disaster. There was nothing tangible, at that time, to justify it.

Today, it's a vastly different story.
 
Spizz said:
I took my mother in law to vote in London in 1994. Year my son was born and she was visiting.
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Someone must be wrong. Looks like the DA, AfriForum and the FF+ once again beat the government in a court case in 2009:

Constitutional Court judges worked late into Wednesday night in a day of intense argument by eight lawyers fighting over whether all South Africans living abroad should be allowed to vote in the April elections.

They represented Willem Richter, a Pretoria teacher living overseas; the Freedom Front Plus, a group of 12 South Africans working abroad, the Inkatha Freedom Party; the Democratic Alliance who based their case on Roy Tipper, a contract worker outside South Africa; Afriforum, the Home Affairs Department and the Independent Electoral Commission.

Overseas vote case intensifies

Judges worked late into the night after intense argument by lawyers fighting over whether all South Africans living abroad should be allowed to vote.
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So whose side during the civil war are you on?

Who you taking out first?

The boring answer is your own race, be honest there are idiots in all race groups. Most probably coloured gangsters would probably side with their own fellow gang. Blacks with their clans?

Will it be suburb against suburb?
 
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