Re:South Africa imported a power station's worth of solar pa...
by OneDonOne on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @12:00PM
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If any colonialism is being done, it certainly is not being done by China. The "China.Debt Trap" nonsense has been.debunked too many times to count. As cited below.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2021/02/ch...
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2020/08/debunking-myth-debt-tra...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QDEWwSkP0 (Bloomberg)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19480881.2023.2... (From 2023)
Even where I am,CHEC is used as a local political tool, not the other way around.
Re:South Africa imported a power station's worth of solar pa...
by zamalek on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:34PM
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I arrived at these conclusions independently while visiting my family who still live there. I had no idea the concept was a thing, or that there was debunking.
Re:South Africa imported a power station's worth of solar pa...
by btreecat on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @03:18PM
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TIL, thanks for the links
Re:South Africa imported a power station's worth of solar pa...
by tibbydudeza on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:19PM
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There was no revenge - BEE was an attempt at restorative justice but unlike Botswana with it's small population that is less that Cape Town the cards were badly stacked.
It is easy to uplift 1.5 million than 30 million people.
Yes poor stupid policies and very mediocre implementation and endemic corruption under the govt you can blame but I don't think how anybody else could solve this horrendous mess.
Botswana is reasonably successful, and I chalk that up to less focus on revenge plotics (the idea of making amends died alongside Mandela in South Africa).
What's truly heartbreaking is how almost the whole continent has been strong-armed into colonialism. In South Africa, that's Anglo-Plat. Zimbabwe (my birth country) has been completely colonialized by the Chinese and is being stripped of everything (with no expense, much of the beauty of the country is gone - e.g. the Chimanimani mountain range).
Revenge isn't worth it.