This cost them about $1 trillion.
The truth is, you cannot build systems like this exclusively on the logic of profit. You cannot expect to break even in 20 or 30 years. Projects of this scale are built because the government decides they must exist to serve the people.
And this is a problem with systems that are strictly, or overwhelmingly, capitalist. If you leave every problem in your society to the spontaneity of the market, some challenges are so large and so unprofitable that you will never have sufficient incentive to solve them.
@Shadaya_Knight I don’t really comment on your posts, this really hit me hard. I hope you forgive me.
Some of us shed tears seeing young people coming into South Africa through the bushes. Some didn’t make it, they were eaten by crocodiles while trying to cross. And here you are..just for likes?
@Shadaya_Knight Take a look at venda for example, Vendas are not the white people you often worship ,they have done a lot for Zimbabweans over the years. The sad part is that some Zimbabweans ended up turning against the very people who gave them shelter, cable theft and housebreaking, mugging
@Shadaya_Knight It was the year 2000, if I’m not mistaken. A young Zimbabwean came down from the mountains side his trousers torn, barefoot, under the scorching heat of 38 to 40°C. It was heartbreaking to witness such suffering. We couldn’t just stand by we gave him shelter, food, and clothes.
An abandoned, hijacked CBD building turned into a fully let student housing success story👏💪
Remington House, situated on Nugget Street in Johannesburg, has been transformed into a green-certified mixed-use building with affordable rental units and is fully let.
The office block was previously abandoned and later hijacked. Today, she’s a student accommodation success story.
Details of the building:
• Building area: 7 191m2
• 133 bachelor apartments
• 5 ground-floor retail shops
• 14 parking bays
• Amenities: study centre and gym
• EDGE results: Energy 27.81%; Water 22.40%; Materials (embodied carbon) 51.00%
• Resource systems: Centralised heat pumps; solar installation; borehole and filtration; LED lighting; low-flow fixtures; dual-flush toilets; optimised façade glazing
So many buildings have been hijacked in this street; one can only hope that more can be saved.
This conversion was made possible by TUHF, for which I give huge kudos. We would love to see more of this.
The new Peter Mokaba stadium is maintained in-house by our own employees. The best drainage system. Pockets of public service excellence. 👏Thank you 🙏 team @PolokwaneMuni stadium staff.We want all our public servants to be inspired by you and emulate your work.❤️😍
I see many asking why Elon Musk is obsessed with South Africa. It’s less consumer market & more location. SA is a global internet infrastructure connection hub & therefore prime location for ground stations as a launch point for the rest of the continent.
Below for all the details and complexities.
Full Recipe🫶
INGREDIENTS:
-5 cups of flour
-1 cup of sugar
-5 teaspoon of baking powder
-1 teaspoon of salt
-1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda
-Stork baking margarine
-Coconut milk
-1 cup of custard/yoghurt/Maas
-5 eggs
-1 teaspoon of vanilla/caramel essence
-Raisins(optional)
Donald, you just wrote the most honest colonial confession of the 21st century.
When you say Venezuela must "return" its oil, land, and assets to the United States, you are not talking about law.
You are talking about ownership.
You are saying, out loud, what empire has always believed in private:
What lies under Venezuelan soil belongs to Washington.
What grows on Venezuelan land belongs to U.S. corporations.
What Venezuela builds for itself is "stolen" if it is not built for you.
That is not security.
That is naked imperial entitlement.
Let us be precise.
Venezuela did not invade Texas.
It did not occupy Florida.
It did not sabotage American refineries or seize American ports.
Venezuela did one thing.
It took back control of its own oil from foreign companies and tried to build a sovereign project outside the dollar.
From that moment, its fate was sealed.
Coups.
Sanctions.
Freezing of assets.
Recognition of a fake "president" who never won an election.
Now you talk about armadas, blockades, and "terrorist" designations.
Everything you accuse Venezuela of, the United States has done on a planetary scale.
You talk about drug trafficking.
Colombia was your closest partner for decades.
You talk about human trafficking.
Your own border, your own allies, your own corporations profit from it.
You talk about terrorism.
Latin America is full of mass graves and dictatorships installed, trained, and armed by Washington.
And you dare to call a blockaded country a "foreign terrorist organization" for the crime of refusing to hand over its oil.
A blockade is not a policy.
It is an act of war carried out with banks instead of bombs.
It starves civilians.
It denies medicine.
It crushes currency.
It manufactures the humanitarian crisis you then use as justification for more aggression.
Venezuela did not "steal" anything from you.
Those oil fields were not born with an American flag on them.
What you call "our assets" are contracts that a sovereign nation chose to end.
You are not demanding justice.
You are demanding restitution for lost privileges.
Strip away the rhetoric, and the message is simple:
The "largest armada" is not there to defend America.
It is there to discipline a country that chose sovereignty.
It is a message to every nation in the Global South:
If you nationalize, we will strangle you.
If you de-dollarize, we will isolate you.
If you resist, we will call you terrorists.
Venezuela is not the thief in this story.
Venezuela is the house that finally changed the locks.
And the fact that you call its oil "ours" is all the proof anyone needs that the biggest foreign terrorist organization in this equation is not in Caracas.
It is in Washington.
@realDonaldTrump