masquenox

In your opinion where did it go wrong?

1985... when the National Party decided to commercialise and deregulate everything in the hopes of causing socio-economic chaos in the country - which it did. They, for instance, knew perfectly wll deregulating the taxi industry would cause chaos - they literally commissioned White Papers to research the outcomes - and they did it not in spite of the findings of that research, but because of it.

Same thing with Eskom - commercialised in 1985, and by 2002 Eskom was disconnecting more households than they were connecting - I literally have the UKZN research papers on my desktop to prove it - because Eskom was now being "run like a business." The outcome we see today shouldn't be a surprise to anyone, but because the media has been lying to us about the root cause of our problems we are all making surprise Pikachu faces while whining about "corruption" and "incompetence."

The ANC took one look at this state of affairs and went, "Oh, we're fine with this" and they've been doing the bog-standard "living it up while the rich gets richer and the poor get poorer" neoliberal shuffle ever since. Don't get me wrong... the ANC is as corrupt as fuck - but that doesn't make them unique here in South Africa or the rest of the world. But they are not the root cause... it's the socio-economic system that enables this shitfuckery that is.

What should the government/country do to get out the current crisis?

We already know how... the same people that now applaud the DA or ActionSA every time their talking heads use the word "privatisation" are the very people who remember (or rather, selectively forgets) how well our public infrastructure worked when they were actually run as public infrastructure and not profit-making "businesses." That's what the country needs to do - reclaim our public infrastructure. But don't expect the snivelling racketeers (whether they be ANC, DA, EFF or any of the parasites squatting in parliament) in our political establishment to push that idea any time soon...

I have never understood why people anticipate game realeases - I mean, people have learned how the AAA game industry works by now, right?

Yeah... tons of bribe money will do that to the governments of weak nations - it's almost like Cuba had the correct idea.

ANC short sightedness

What ANC short-sightedness? They're doing what all the rich people wanted them to do, aren't they? Running everything "like a business?" I guess South Africans are now seeing for themselves how short-sighted running "everything like a business" was always going to be, huh?

Last time I checked, big foreign corporations are still looting and pillaging all over Africa as if independence never happened... I wonder why?

edit: This includes Shell, a Dutch corporation, btw.

but the US knew Saddam had chemical weapons

Yes, I know... the US knew about every gallon of mustard gas and sarin Saddam had - not only did the US provide intelligence to Saddam to specifically help his use of the stuff during the Iran-Iraq War be more effective, they could also literally read almost every damn ciphered communique of the Iraqi army at the highest levels thanks to the fact that Iraq used compromised ciphering machines bought from the CIA front company Crypto AG in Switzerland.

They knew perfectly well Saddam had destroyed all his stockpiles - if he hadn't, Bush would have never dared to invade Iraq.

Laughs hysterically in South African... where we now have no choice but to use gas for almost everything because our electrical grid is collapsing due to IMF-approved neoliberal shitfuckery.

Bullcrap. Since when does genocidal European colonial-settler states have "natural rights" to the land the are perpetrating genocide upon?

And what would this (alleged) "third option" be? This?

When was this nationalist hokum ever in date? Nationality has always been a piss-poor substitute for actual cultural identities... that's the whole reason classical liberal nation states had to be forced onto people through state brutality.

What about confronting it's colonial present? Last time I checked, the colonialist world order that underpins the wealth of the Global North hasn't ended.

Many haven’t fully come to terms with it.

No... they haven't. Colonialism is not the past... it's the present. And the Netherlands still benefit from it to this very day.