DecayDetectiveSA

Accountability and Heritage, One Building at a Time

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@jozivsjozi In 3 years a factory is replaced by a township.
28 Nicholson Rd, Denver, JHB

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@jozivsjozi Feast your eyes on this crazy.
Factory replaced by an informal settlement
2010 - 2025

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#14 - Industrial Decay. Dimbaza Factories. PICS: 2004> 2025 | ABANDONED ,#EasternCape #Thenvsnow #Throwback #Decaydetectivesa #Decay #Municipal
@Qonce
@GDCoGTA

2004 - 2025: 24 Njokweni St, Dimbaza (Near King Williams Town)

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@balance_druid @OfficialBCMM @GDCoGTA This is incredible!
Looks like a Berlin post WW2 scene

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#13 - Industrial Decay. 62 Hadeda Cl, Fort Jackson (Industrial), Mdantsane, East London Factories. PICS: 2010> 2025 | Neglect ,#Eastlondon #BuffaloCity #Thenvsnow #Throwback #Decaydetectivesa #Decay #Municipal
@OfficialBCMM
@GDCoGTA

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#12 - Industrial Decay. 62 Hadeda Cl, Fort Jackson (Industrial), Mdantsane, East London Factories. PICS: 2010> 2025 | Neglect ,#Eastlondon #BuffaloCity #Thenvsnow #Throwback #Decaydetectivesa #Decay #Municipal
@OfficialBCMM

@GDCoGTA

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@aynrandfontein CTP Printers - Denver, 28 Nicholson Rd, Johannesburg
2017 factory - 2026 Informal Settlement

Yes this is the same site.

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@aynrandfontein How is this possible? 2016 vs 2025 (9 years gone!)

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@aynrandfontein Gerotek Test Facilities & Military Base Land Invasion in Elandsfontein, Pretoria West - 2009 - 2025

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@aynrandfontein Please do one on the following sites:

Delft / Cape Town Airport area

Marikana Informal Settlement / Philippi Area

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@aynrandfontein And the R300/N2 Crossing

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#11 SabieTrain Station, Mpumalanga The heart of the forestry industry. PICS: 2010> 2025 | Neglect ,#Sabie #Thenvsnow #Throwback #Decaydetectivesa #Decay #Mpumalanga #Municipal #transnet #train
@follow_transnet
@ReliableTFR
@GDCoGTA

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#10 Hendriksdal Train Station, Mpumalanga
The heart of the forestry industry.
PICS: 2010> 20254 | Neglect

, #Thenvsnow #Throwback #Decaydetectivesa #Decay #Mpumalanga #Municipal #transnet @follow_transnet @ReliableTFR
@GDCoGTA

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@GodPenuel SIDE NOTE: You can have corruption in a system ran with VISION, VALUES, LAW AND ORDER, and we will still be well off!

But without one of the above, the system crumbles.

[DecayDetectiveSA @DecayDetectivSA]

THREAD:
CONTEXT: A mix of factors gave us the Apartheid Government.

A: Origin - Hardship & Pioneering Spirit: Colonial immigrants persecuted in Europe came to SA (Hardship + Pioneers + Survival). British Imperialst structure of Governance was effective, it also included segregation to serve its own. The Anglo Boer War murdered 26000 women & children died in concentration camps. Afrikaners were fiercely bitter at the British, were also poor, uneducated, it was a problem. Afrikaner Nationalism was born from this.

B: 1920's: Afrikaner Nationalism:
Afrikaners MASSIVELY invested into uplifting the Afrikaner people "Poor white problem".

C: BIRTH OF THE NATIONALIST GOVERNMENT:

1. VISION: The early Afrikaner Nationalist visionary leaders including Henrik Vervoerd had a vision to break away from British opression and to build a country to become a powerhouse.

2. VALUES & CULTURE: Afrikaans were expanded, literature, textbooks, schools. The Huisgenoot magazine were founded to educate poor whites on etiquite, hygiene, child upbringing, and skills.
The Dutch Reformed Church established a culture of values that were core to Afrikaner idenitity and kept the system in check.

3. EDUCATION: Expanded a professional school model, built thousands of highly equipped schools offering vocational skills, invested heavily in teacher colleges.

4. INFRASTRUCTURE & INNOVATION:
- State owned Enterprises: Government offered jobs reserved for poor whites in useful positions.
SPOORNET (1910), Roads and Dams contruction.

The NP government recruited brilliant industrialist Hendrik van der Bijl to establish the IDC (1940) to fund Industry, also founded ESKOM (1922), ISCOR(1925), AMCOR (1937), SAFMARINE(1946) to boost SA's industrial self suficiency. https://t.co/1Tatok9Qxo

Brilliant Industrialist Hans Merensky expanded Forestry, Agriculture and Geology he was the person behind the discovery of the largest mineral deposits in SA. https://t.co/auePHmdA6z

Government expanded reasearch and innovation to counter sanctions and also for self sufficiency:
SASOL (1950), CSIR (1945), PETROSA(1965), SANPARKS(1926), Developed Nuclear Technology ect.

5. LAW AND ORDER:
Apartheid Government was famous for its effective police force, intelligence services, and world renowned SADF. Death Penalty removed murderers from society.

6. NATIONAL PRIDE:
Generally citizens were proud of what was built up and knew the history. Each milestone were celebrated like tarred roads, electric street lights, new dams, new parks, ect. Clean and well run spaces were cherished as national assets. Municipalities were ran by Mayors who were business people and community leaders who volunteered to lead towns, not political apointees seeking power and permanent employment.

CONCLUSION: The Apartheid Government was born out of several factors: A: persecuted colonial pioneers, that were innovative and hard working by nature, British opression & war led to nationalism. Afrikaners inherited a working system, had big vision, developed identity and values, recruited brilliant industrialists, invested into education, invested heavily in building up infrastructure and the economy. The glue that held everything together was law and order and national pride of having a beautiful country.

Was it a Good Goverment?: Technically Yes - Mainly because it was founded and run with vision, made use of skilled pioneering industrialists, promoted values and idenity, Invested into critical skills needed as foundation of an economy and successful society. Heavily invested into infrastructure and self sufficiency.
Law and Order was strictly maintained.

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#9 45 Burger St, Lichtenburg, North West PICS: 2010> 2019 > 2024 | Neglect | Incompetence
@Lichtenburg
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@Northwest
, #Thenvsnow #Throwback #Decaydetectivesa #Decay #Lichtenburg #Municipal #Cogta @GDCoGTA @GaytonMcK #sport

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@Sunflow24522496 @Newzroom405 Soon Taxi patrollers will confiscate bicycles and shoes forcing people to take taxis.

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@heinkoen @geordinhl @CityofCT @DeanMacpherson @DepartmentPWI What is the street address Hein?

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@geordinhl @CityofCT @DeanMacpherson @DepartmentPWI #8
1 Castle st, Cape Town.
Castle of Good Hope, est. 1679
PICS: 2009> 2017 > 2024 | Land invasion
@CityofCT, @DepartmentPWI,
#Thenvsnow #Throwback #Decaydetectivesa #landinvasion #Squatting #Squatters #CapeTown #Castle #eviction