South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen

Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by fatneckbeardz on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:07PM (#33684743)

i tend to disagree. Africa has some countries with very good GDP growth over the past 20 years, higher than some developed countries (Japan) that are struggling with debt and demographic collapse.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by boeingUH60 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:10PM (#33684766)

Please name some...I really want to have hope. Most times, the countries people name like Rwanda are definitely improving but still far behind on a global development scale. Sure, Japan is struggling, but Japan's struggles seem like paradise to the average African country's struggles.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by pepperonipizza on Sunday November 20, 2022 @05:38PM (#33686248)

Ethiopia was having a rapid growth before covid.

I am not sure after covid and the war in Tigray how it's doing at the moment

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by TapWaterBandit on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:19PM (#33686615)

Been outstripped by population growth. The trajectory of Ethiopia is bleak again.

No African country has ever done a "Japan" and come even close to catching up with the West. Hell, I don't think any has even been able to catch up with middle income countries. I am starting to doubt it can even be done.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by fatneckbeardz on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:01PM (#33687784)

GDP growth by percent, For 2021

Botswana - 12 Rwanda - 10 Ethiopia - 8.6 Kenya - 7.2 Burkina Faso - 6.9 Benin - 6.5 Zimbabwe - 6.3 South Sudan - 5.3 Uganda - 5.0 South Africa - 4.9

Compare: Japan - 1.6 USA - 5.6 Germany - 2.8 Korea - 4.0 Norway - 3.9

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_real_GDP_...

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by mschuster91 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:12PM (#33684774)

> Africa has some countries with very good GDP growth over the past 20 years

The key question is: just how much of that nominal growth ended up back at the population, and how much ended up in anonymous Swiss accounts or shell companies belonging to autocrats and their families/friends?

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by fatneckbeardz on Sunday November 20, 2022 @08:55PM (#33687746)

im not going to criticize other countries when in my own country the USA, the middle class has been shrinking for 40 years and life expectancy is actually going down.

when i grew up it was rare to see a homeless person, now there are tent camps all across the city. and i live in a red state where almost every local and state wide office is run by republicans.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by knaekhoved on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:35PM (#33684982)

Going from mud huts to imported plywood might represent 3000% GDP growth, but they're still tapping out well below the west, E asia, etc. Their theoretical maximum technological and economic capacity is strictly bounded by demographic factors like population intelligence distributions. The Chinese are aware of this, I think, and are working on colonization efforts, which will eventually cause Africa's economic load-bearing population to increase.

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