International Taps have run dry across South Africa’s largest city in an unprecedented water crisis

[NoSmilez]

No UFC there.

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Give it 5 years. They'll be begging for white engineers again.

 

[oldshadow]

What percentage colonialism and apartheid?

Surely subjugating a populace had some adverse effects?

Not on the ability to maintain their system this is in large part because the what happened after.

The leadership sucks so bad they use their fuck up and blame it on the "white devils" and their fix is to kick more out of their positions letting non skilled people take over. Then for the most part those in power are straight up crooks.

I'm not say it was right before I'm saying the people in charge now fuck up the process that people are starving and now will have no water.

 

[Oeshon]

What a shit hole.

 

[AbominableJoman]

What a shitty hole

 

[wufabufa]

Wasn't there a story some years ago about Cape Town running out of water as well or is that not a thing any more?

 

[RonDante]

Clearly the fault of white people

 

[LeonardoBjj]

Prosecutors allege South Africa’s parliamentary speaker took $135,000 and a wig in bribes​

BY MOGOMOTSI MAGOME
Updated 4:26 PM BRT, March 25, 2024

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — South African prosecutors said Monday they intend to charge the parliamentary speaker with corruption, alleging that she took $135,000 and a wig in bribes over a three-year period while she was defense minister.
Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula hasn’t been arrested or charged.

The prosecutors spoke at a court hearing over her claims that authorities hadn’t properly informed her of allegations or followed correct procedure in their investigation.

Judge Sulet Potterill said that she would deliver a ruling on April 2 on Mapisa-Nqakula’s application for a temporary block on police arresting her. Mapisa-Nqakula is also asking for access to documents outlining the evidence prosecutors have against her.

Prosecutors have rejected her request and say she is asking for special treatment.

In court papers submitted for the hearing, prosecutors say that Mapisa-Nqakula, 67, received 11 payments totaling $135,000 between December 2016 and July 2019. She sought another bribe of $105,000 but that wasn’t paid, prosecutors said.

On one occasion in February 2019, Mapisa-Nqakula received more than $15,000 and a wig at a meeting at the country’s main international airport, the papers say.

The person who allegedly paid the bribes wasn’t named.

Prosecutors gave her the opportunity to hand herself in at a police station and be taken to court to be formally charged. They said they wouldn’t oppose her bail.

Mapisa-Nqakula has denied wrongdoing and had said she would cooperate with authorities after they searched her home in Johannesburg and seized evidence last week.

She has taken a leave of absence from her role as Parliament’s speaker. She was previously accused of taking bribes, but a parliamentary investigation was dropped in 2021. The case reemerged after a whistleblower came forward last year, prosecutors said.

Her case is the latest graft scandal to hit the governing African National Congress party, which faces a pivotal national election on May 29.

https://apnews.com/article/parliame...south-africa-9f19c747f570d38a088dc7fea05e3f80

 

[Chad R. Thundercock]

Lol. Get fucked, ANC. You could learn a thing or two about building desalination plants from Israel, but you're too busy accusing them of a bullshit genocide.