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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by xnyan on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:00PM (#33686451)
With the help of huge amounts of cash and other support from the United States. This is also why Japan and South Korea recovered so quickly. South Africa did not get a Marshall Plan.
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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by TheLoafOfBread on Sunday November 20, 2022 @06:06PM (#33686506)
That has something to do with fact that South Africa was not bombed into oblivion, but had actually working economy on the end of the apartheid. Additionally there might be no Marshall Plan for African countries, but there is constant financial aid to African countries since end of WW2.

Edit: I have completely forget that whole Eastern Block was not allowed to accept Marshall Plan from political reasons and help from Soviets was not really there.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by int_19h on Monday November 21, 2022 @09:37PM (#33701067)
The Eastern Bloc had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comecon.
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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by TheLoafOfBread on Wednesday November 23, 2022 @06:27PM (#33725852)
That's more-less like current EU but completely worthless
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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by jdkee on Monday November 21, 2022 @12:26AM (#33689123)
Economic aid to Africa since 1960 exceeds the Marshall Plan by an order of magnitude.
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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Monday November 21, 2022 @05:16AM (#33690917)
100% sure Germany would have recovered without any aid, maybe it would take 10 years longer.
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