Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
by Barrin92 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:06PM
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yep. It's a small country but it's the oldest democracy on the continent, ranks quite highly internationally (30th on the democracy index, ahead of Italy), and has a gdp per capita only slightly lower than the baltics (20k). By most accounts a pretty tremendous success.
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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
by jl6 on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:58PM
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Any obvious reasons why it has enjoyed this success while its southern neighbour hasn’t?
Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
by quink on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:25PM
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Competent forward-looking leadership.
There's plenty of factors that helped, I can think of a dozen right off the top of my head, but the one that made a crucial difference is in my opinion really the above.
Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
by buyx on Sunday November 20, 2022 @09:34PM
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It's a tiny country (population 2.3 million, vs South Africa's 60 million), mono-ethnic, rich in diamonds, strong culture of law and order.
South Africa also props Botswana up via a customs union.
https://www.tralac.org/news/article/6931-surge-in-botswana-s...
Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen
by erichocean on Monday November 21, 2022 @01:30AM
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> has a gdp per capita only slightly lower than the baltics (20k)
Your numbers are not even close.
> In 2019, the GDP per capita (adjusted for purchasing power parity) was $36,701 in Lithuania, $35,853 in Estonia and $30,830 in Latvia.
Source: https://wedc.org/export/market-intelligence/posts/strong-gro...
Botswana has a $7,347.55 GDP per capita according to Google (in 2021).
That's at least 75% lower than the worst Baltic nation, not "slightly below."