South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen

Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by ch4s3 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:24PM (#33684876)

More than just that, it takes a lot of luck. You need people in power at key moments who can rise to the occasion and then peacefully pass along power. You need leaders who build institutions and not networks of patronage. You need people in place who are willing to accept the constraints of rule of law, and to establish that norm.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by guywithahat on Sunday November 20, 2022 @05:15PM (#33686028)

I didn't downvote you but you can't really call it all luck, because if that were the case you would see a random smattering of countries becoming successful and others failing, however what you see in the real world is continents either being successful or failing. Unfortunately I think some of the major actors at play here are too politically sensitive to talk about, but I don't think there's much luck involved at the end of the day

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by BoorishBears on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:15PM (#33686581)

I wonder what South Korea would become if tomorrow morning China invaded NK and SK and made them into a single country with North Koreans in charge.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by ch4s3 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:41PM (#33686788)

I said it also requires luck.

> in the real world is continents either being successful or failing

Hardly. Chile is quite successful while Argentina is kind of a mess and Bolivia is worse. Uruguay is doing well also. Brazil is doing reasonably well, all things considered too. Venezuela is an absolute mess.

Europe is a really mixed bag as well.

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